Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe 's . |
| 2 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 3 | Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage . |
| 4 | However , there continued to be successes from individual business units which resulted from another year of good effort , team work and commitment by Wimpol staff throughout the Group . |
| 5 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 6 | However , the origins of increasing tension between the vicomtes of Béarn and the Plantagenets lie in the consequences of the disputes which developed after 1287 over the succession to Bigorre , Marsan and Béarn . |
| 7 | Black communities around Pietermaritzburg have seen much of the fighting in a brutal turf war between the ANC and Inkatha supporters which flared in 1986 , deeply dividing black communities . |
| 8 | The results show that variations in profit margins were directly related to fluctuations in the level of demand for architectural services between 1971 and 1988 but that the liberalisations which occurred after 1982 have also acted to reduce the size of profit margins . |
| 9 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 10 | An additional $100 million was targeted for " magnet " schools which specialized in specific subjects . |
| 11 | The pictures which led to such demand for the Daily Mirror that the Sold Out signs went up at newsagents all over the country . |
| 12 | A couple strolled past on clicking heels which echoed from one side of the road to the other . |
| 13 | The General Assembly on Dec. 19 established the post of a UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator , whose secretariat would be based on a strengthened Office of the UN Disaster Relief Co-ordinator and the consolidation of existing offices which dealt with complex emergencies . |
| 14 | It was , moreover , widely disseminated by a profusion of pattern books which concentrated upon smaller houses . |
| 15 | After the break , Abingdon continued to force Horsham back , although now the pitch was beginning to make an impression on some tired legs ; there were mistakes from both sides and also some heavy tackles which resulted in long delays whilst players received attention . |
| 16 | Although the CNAA acquired this new set of privileged partners , it also retained those institutions which shared to one extent or another in the provision of higher education . |
| 17 | As Professor Deane has put it , there took place , mainly in the first half of the century , " a series of developments in the money market , an expansion in the number , range and efficiency of English financial institutions which amounted in all to a financial revolution " . |
| 18 | If Romania was to get cheap credits and access to high-tech goods it needed to prove its credit-worthiness to the prestigious foreign institutions which specialized in economic analysis . |
| 19 | None wished or attempted to destroy all the institutions which acted as possible centres of opposition to their reforming efforts . |
| 20 | Early evaluation of the CADDIS prototype was carried out in conjunction with ATE personnel which resulted in greater confidence in the general approach coupled with acceptance and participation in the general approach . |
| 21 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) details the strategy developed for London , and outlines the social , economic and political reasons which led to this particular form of local policy being adopted for London . |
| 22 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 23 | LOTHIAN REGION opened for business in 1975 and can trace its roots back to the local authorities which existed before that date . |
| 24 | In England , by the later seventeenth century , there had emerged a fairly clear-cut distinction where foreign affairs were concerned between a northern and a southern department , with each of the two secretaries handling relations with the foreign states which fell into one of these geographical divisions . |
| 25 | In France , at the accession of Henry II in 1547 , each of the four secrétaires des finances was given the task of overseeing the administration of a group of French provinces and also of relations with the foreign states which bordered on these ; thus for example the secretary who supervised Burgundy and Champagne was normally also responsible for relations with the Swiss cantons and the states of west Germany . |
| 26 | As a result of investigations which began in 1989 against officials suspected of corrupt practices under the administration of the previous President , Jaime Lusinchi , a senator and former Minister of the Interior and of Development , José Angel Ciliberto , was on Jan. 27 , 1990 , stripped of parliamentary immunity as a prelude to facing charges of misuse of government funds . |
| 27 | It was the pointy headstock revolution which led to the wide usage of scarf jointing , as the thinner necks which went with such guitars were prone to breaking behind the nut , where the headstock pitched back but the wood grain did n't follow it . |
| 28 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 29 | An organization calling itself the Mujahidin Kashmir claimed responsibility for planting bombs which exploded at two New Delhi police stations on April 10 , injuring nine policemen . |
| 30 | For while it was happy for the advisory team to devise policies which went into considerable detail about aspects of classroom practice which are surely for schools and teachers to determine , it remained relatively aloof from one area of school life — home-school links-where policy might usefully and helpfully have stipulated not just goals and commitments but also a range of procedures from which schools could choose . |