Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a quarter of respondents provided specific teaching , which rarely exceeded 30 minutes weekly . |
| 2 | Full of stairs and small rooms on each floor and no garden to speak of , only a kind of paved area leading off the basement kitchen which rarely got any sun . |
| 3 | He then made several shorter runs , which thereby accumulated fewer neutrons and had correspondingly larger uncertainties . |
| 4 | POLICE and fire officers were last night still investigating the cause of a fire which badly damaged two car workshops in farm outbuildings . |
| 5 | At home he developed a system of close co-operation between management and trade union leaders which successfully improved economic performance and kept down unemployment . |
| 6 | About 1,200 members of the 1,400-strong central committee took part in the July 22 vote , which effectively delayed any party leadership contest at least until 1991 . |
| 7 | It is not without significance that it had its source in a campaign which effectively combined Cobdenite principles of free trade with a ‘ bellicose philanthropy ’ worthy of the most self-righteous of Victorian imperialists . |
| 8 | which effectively determined this case in the courts below and it is the law as so stated which the appellant prosecutor now challenges as an unwarranted judicial gloss upon the statutory language , as opposed to a legitimate construction of it . |
| 9 | It is however I think relevant to the debate on policies I five and I twelve , to the extent that the County Council adjustments to the wording of policy I five which would provide for the distributional strategy and its emphasis on directing development to locations in and adjacent to main urban areas , main towns and small towns , to be modified so as to pe permit major employment allocations to be made elsewhere and indeed on a scale which effectively improved distributional strategy . |
| 10 | On July 28 , the Speaker of the Majlis , Hojatolislam Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , was elected President , succeeding Khamenei , and assumed office on Aug. 17 ; also on July 28 voters in a referendum approved a number of constitutional amendments which effectively increased presidential authority . |
| 11 | The superiority of the allied armed forces , and the unfolding of a military strategy which effectively minimized allied casualties ; allowed the political leadership in the USA , the United Kingdom and France to prosecute the war with overwhelming public support [ see below ] . |
| 12 | The Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu ( PBB ) of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud , which had ruled the state for 10 years and formed part of the ruling National Front coalition at federal level , was returned to power for a further five-year term as the dominant member of the self-styled Bavisan Tiga ( Front of Three ) which altogether won 49 seats , of which the PPB had 27 , the Sarawak United People 's Party 16 , and the Sarawak National Party six [ for April 1987 elections see p. 35460 ] . |
| 13 | In addition , international competition forced the company to sell Garrard Engineering to a Third World ( Brazilian ) firm which eventually transferred all production to the assisted area of Manaus , on the Amazon , with 4,000 job losses in Swindon between 1975 and 1982 . |
| 14 | But there was not much time for rows because he was conducting the Halpern case which eventually sent three youths to prison for the torture and murder of a crippled old woman . |
| 15 | Of course , Roman emperors deified themselves , made their horses consuls and existed in a state of terrifying paranoia which eventually provoked genuine plots and assassinations , but in retrospect the gross crimes of a Caligula or Nero lacked the all-pervading hypocrisy of the modern tyrants . |
| 16 | Two other characteristics which mostly attracted indirect mention but which , nevertheless , were important included : purity , in the sense of not containing other substances ; dependability in the sense that the product can always be relied upon to meet the mothers ' standard ( viz softness , non-irritant , pure ) . |
| 17 | And , given the view held by Bukharin ( and the majority of the Bolsheviks ) that the peasants were , by definition , a hot-bed of ‘ petty-bourgeois anarchy ’ , a sort of bubbling yeast out of which constantly emerged petty capitalists , such an alliance ( equilibrium ) had latent dangers of a renewed bout of violent class struggle . |
| 18 | According to legend , some stones have moved permanently by their own power , such as the Wergin Stone near Hereford which suddenly moved 240 paces and required nine yoke of oxen to take it back . |
| 19 | This is different from Sun 's previous strategy which basically charged Russian customers European list prices plus high shipment costs . |
| 20 | Together with drugs and drainage they checked the effects of disease and famine , while the imposition of order and the creation of new employment began the slow demographic revolution which long prevented many countries from cashing their new wealth in the form of a higher standard of living . |
| 21 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 22 | It is this era which is drawing to a close and , with it , the peculiar mixture of promise and peril which long characterised Soviet life . |
| 23 | Yet , without minimising the very real material and political benefits gained by ordinary working-class people in the 1940s , one must recognise the qualitatively ambiguous nature of these welfare innovations : a National Health Service which greatly benefited working-class women and children but also consolidated the power of an elite of consultants ; secondary education for all , but qualitatively differentiated , with selection by and large on grounds of social class , and the independent sector left intact ; a comprehensive social security system , but with benefit rates no higher in relation to average earnings than they had been in the 1930s . |
| 24 | A referendum held on July 28 , 1989 , backed constitutional amendments which greatly strengthened presidential authority [ see p. 36833 ] . |
| 25 | Weakening British exports , as the incomes of the primary producing countries overseas began to fall , came at a time of a downturn in the US economy which greatly aggravated deflationary tendencies . |
| 26 | The dismay among field staff about the change in the character of the job was neatly reflected by a printed statement posted on the wall in one area office , which nicely contrasted bureaucratic sentiments with blunter language about practical realities : |
| 27 | Solaris-on-Intel , work on which only began last January , will be available to developers from the third quarter , and will require a minimum configuration of a 33MHz 80386 with 80387 co-processor , or 25MHz , 33MHz , or 50MHz 80486DX , 80486DX2 or 80486SX with an 80487SX co-processor . |
| 28 | The Vulcan , which only saw active service during one raid in the Falklands campaign … was at the heart of Britain 's Air Defence for thirty years . |
| 29 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 30 | Of the new species , which only arrived two weeks ago , the H . |