Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening . |
| 2 | Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue . |
| 3 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 4 | But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class . |
| 5 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
| 6 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |
| 7 | The sum insured applicable to a claim is the figure which applied at the date of the loss , i.e. the sum insured at inception/renewal date plus the appropriate index-linking to the date of loss . |
| 8 | The growth of European Community funded farming has increased losses which began at the beginning of the century . |
| 9 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
| 10 | The first floor of the Post Office had some rooms over the lane which contained at the end nearest the street , some of Salisbury 's oldest buildings . |
| 11 | However , because the moral phenomena which lay at the roots of social solidarity could not directly be measured , Durkheim identified law as an external and visible index of changes in invisible moral phenomena . |
| 12 | BSkyB will not renew the £13 million three-season deal they had with the Scottish authorities which expired at the end of last season . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , I fell on the gravel , severely grazing my knee and , what was worse , ruining one of my two pairs of stockings — nasty rayon objects which sagged at the knees and cost precious clothing coupons . |
| 14 | Under the old set up , I ran a course which looked at the problems of language learning chronologically . |
| 15 | I explained in my statement in the annual report about the management reorganisation which occurred at the end of nineteen eighty nine . |
| 16 | Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century . |
| 17 | So perhaps Hahnemann was quite right when he suggested that inherited factors from past infections or infections suffered by ancestors caused imbalances which lay at the heart of the chronic diseases . |
| 18 | Although there were links to other organizations , such as through Arnold Leese to the Britons and Nesta Webster to the extremist Die-hards , the organization 's political roots had greater connections to the mainly middle-class pressure groups which evolved at the end of the war to protect property against the alleged socialist menace , the most important of which were the British Empire Union , the Middle Classes Union and the National Citizens Union . |
| 19 | It was this issue which lay at the heart of Dicey 's concern about droit administratif . |
| 20 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 21 | He thought about the decadence which existed at the centre of the Empire . |
| 22 | The most notable capture was that of Caen which fell at the end of July , and which , according to the chronicler Froissart , was the source of much material gain which was taken down the river Orne to the coast for shipment back to England . |
| 23 | It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation . |
| 24 | It was further provided by Statute that , in supplying a vacancy occurring during the sitting of Parliament , the burgh which presided at the election of the former member should preside at the new election . |
| 25 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 26 | Baroness Hooper 's letter stated that help with NHS charges for students were based on an individual assessment of ability to pay and on circumstances which existed at the time a claim was made . |
| 27 | But the allegations of a popish plot which broke at the end of 1678 embarrassed Dering deeply , dividing him between a strong anti-Catholicism and his loyalty to the monarchy and his patrons in the government . |
| 28 | But the question which struck at the heart of the matter was put to Sir Geoffrey on 5 July in the Commons by Jim Sillars , the Scottish Nationalist . |
| 29 | This was the question which lay at the heart of every murder investigation ; and yet he knew its absurdity before he asked it . |
| 30 | LETTER-BOMBERS who sent a package which exploded at the Cambridgeshire headquarters of Anglian Water yesterday have been roundly condemned by Scottish National Party leaders . |