Example sentences of "[num] [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 22 a panel of the Supreme Court had overturned one challenge by a group of Bhopal victims by upholding legislation passed in 1985 which had given the central government the sole right to negotiate with UCC . |
| 2 | Following the drilling of deep boreholes in the 1960 's and in 1978–79 which had confirmed the presence of sandstones with good reservoir characteristics in several areas below the thick basalt cover , there was an urgent need to establish whether usable seismic data could be obtained from below the basalts . |
| 3 | Meanwhile many intelligent deaf people who might have gone into education , but now finding these opportunities non-existent because of the Education Act of 1893 which had implemented the Royal Commission for the Education of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb 's recommendations , were now turning to missioner positions in deaf societies and institutes for a living . |
| 4 | COINCIDENTALLY , the Corporation meeting in 1898 which discussed closing the Tubwell Row pump , also rejected the Southend Estate Co 's invitation to buy The Rookery in Grange Road . |
| 5 | The parties which voted for Pawlak were the three which had proposed the no confidence motion against Olszewski [ see p. 38921 ] , namely the Democratic Union ( UD ) ( except its Democratic Right faction ) , the Liberal Democratic Congress ( KLD ) and the Polish Economic Programme ( PPG ) , plus his own PSL , the KPN , and the Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) . |
| 6 | James Grant included ‘ The Pawnbroker ’ in Pictures of Popular People in 1842 , their reputation having improved since the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1745 which had deplored the pawnbroker 's role of living by the miseries of mankind . |
| 7 | Rachel Carson 's book Silent Spring which highlighted the dangers of industrial and agrochemical pollution back in 1962 , was enormously influential , as were the writings of Paul Ehrlich in the early 1970s which helped to inspire the establishment of the Green movement . |
| 8 | After all , it was inspiration from the patchwork quilts in 1952 which had proved the original impetus for the whole company . |
| 9 | In early November the King formally proclaimed a new Constitution to replace that of 1962 which had enshrined the absolute powers of the monarchy and the multitiered system of panchayat representation . |
| 10 | Unlike the protests of 1987 which had ended the Fifth Republic , the 1991 protests , although frequently large and violent , lacked support from the country 's middle class . |
| 11 | The movement towards caveat venditor , at least in consumer sales , was confirmed by the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 which sought to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) . |
| 12 | For example , the International Commission of Jurists concluded in its report on the status of the Aaland Islands that the Convention of 1856 which had demilitarised the islands remained effective and could be relied upon by a third party , Sweden . |