Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [Wh det] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , clerical taxation in the 1290s was to be based on the new and higher valuation of their livings made for the purpose initially of papal taxation in 1291 ; this assessment replaced that of 1276 which had itself supplanted the valor of 1254 . |
| 2 | In a history of Scaitcliffe School in Egham , Surrey , Mr Vickers recalled a knee injury Mr Branson suffered as a boy of 12 which meant he could never play contact sports again . |
| 3 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 4 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 5 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 6 | Implicit in Pecham 's letter of 1281 which outlined his hierocratic principles was the paternalist view that the church 's task was to affirm and support the king to meet his divinely imposed responsibilities to the Christian commonweal , the realm . |
| 7 | It was an invitation to show work in the Arts Council 's ‘ Three Perspectives on Photography ’ show at the Hayward Gallery in 1979 which turned her back towards the family : ‘ I have never been asked to produce work for use in a gallery before , and had no idea what to expect when I showed it . |
| 8 | Most believe he would have played for Wales but for a serious knee injury in 1975 which put him out of rugby for two years . |
| 9 | Founded in 1633 , it suffered a disastrous fire in 1824 which destroyed its fine steeple , replaced later by the present one . |
| 10 | Even the longstanding considerations ( the first three ) took forms in 1858 which increased their weight , but it was probably the last two that tipped the balance in favour of the radical solution . |
| 11 | It was the great fire of London in 1666 which gave him his opening , however , and he became a prominent figure in the rebuilding of the city over the next decade . |
| 12 | The conference also benefited from the unexpected gifts provided by the Nationalists , who now face as serious an internal crisis as the one in 1982 which crippled them for years . |
| 13 | Serbia , however , abjectly stomached the terms , save for two which violated her status as an independent country . |
| 14 | His personal score stood at seven which made him an ace and then came that morning of ferocious winds and driving snow when he 'd come in at four hundred feet , flying blind , lost his engine at the last moment and crash-landed . |
| 15 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |