Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round . |
| 2 | St Johnstone coach John McClelland came on as substitute in the second half in a vain bid to restore confidence to a rearguard which badly missed the suspended John Inglis . |
| 3 | Firstly he introduced new cars , including the De Luxe cars , new Pullman cars for the Fleetwood route and the famous toastracks which successfully operated the Circular Tour . |
| 4 | By March things had settled down sufficiently for the DCAC to mount a mass demonstration which successfully traversed the original 5 October route — this time without diversions , but this was the last occasion on which the DCAC was able to organise a peaceful mass demonstration . |
| 5 | That college was the stronghold of the " child-centred " approach to teaching young children , but the schools in the London area which successfully demonstrated the Froebelian philosophy were few and far between . |
| 6 | From an aesthetic perspective , the booths which successfully overcame the white-carpeted department-store ambience were those which staged one-man shows , or accrochages sharply focused upon a few artists , such as Galerie Jule Kewenig of Cologne with Peter Wutherich 's ‘ Literary Watercolour ’ ( 1992 ) , a beautiful , ovoid configuration of books , with titles and spines facing downwards and inwards , in shades of turquoise , green , blue and violet and Sophia Ungers , of Cologne with eight works by painter Stefan Mattes . |
| 7 | In the aftermath of the first oil shock , however , there was a greater tendency for OPEC countries to diversify their assets into traditionally strong currencies such as the Deutschmark and Swiss franc , a move which effectively boosted the international value of these currencies . |
| 8 | In the middle of this solemn crisis , Alan burst in : ‘ Have you a book on insect identification ? ’ — which effectively deflated the solemn mood . |
| 9 | He argues that the traditional forms of representative government , which effectively excluded the popular masses or isolated and controlled them through local notables , is ‘ no longer an adequate instrument ’ . |
| 10 | However the adoption of the systems approach as a textbook framework , although producing some stimulating texts which effectively transcended the traditional boundaries of physical geography ( e.g. Chorley and Kennedy , 1971 ; Trudgill 1977 ) , has not been paralleled by an equal amount of adoption as a vehicle for research programmes . |
| 11 | The rampart front itself was subsequently cut away to accommodate a massive stone wall set on a foundation of limestone , clay and rubble lenses , which presumably incorporated the existing tower at the south-east gate . |
| 12 | This growing undercurrent of public protest was to prove a critical factor in the crisis which eventually engulfed the nuclear power developers . |
| 13 | They also heaped praise on the police for the investigation which eventually caught the three . |
| 14 | They also heaped praise on the police for the investigation which eventually caught the three . |
| 15 | There was therefore a group of ‘ aliens ’ among the king 's familiares which long outlived the political turmoil of Henry III 's reign . |
| 16 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 17 | In Liverpool William Rathbone extracted figures from the muster roles which Clarkson used as the basis for the statistics on mortality , disease and desertion amongst seamen engaged in the slave trade and which apparently impressed the Privy Council committee . |
| 18 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 19 | Does the Minister recall the remark made by President Yeltsin the other day which so delighted the Prime Minister — that Britain 's nuclear weapons were irrelevant and of no consequence in the discussions about nuclear disarmament ? |
| 20 | Since then , the vast European world empires which so simplified the political map have gone , leaving behind something over 170 governments and well over 170 nationalisms . |
| 21 | Since so many of their coastal farms have now disappeared beneath a raft of asphalt and concrete , we have tended to forget the minor variations in the landscape which so influenced the earlier farmers ; even in the ‘ rural ’ Weald modern urban man finds it hard to distinguish the overlay of later centuries from Saxon patterns . |
| 22 | Circumstances , or ‘ luck ’ , have also been important in her later career , particularly the outbursts of industrial unrest in 1979 which so damaged the Labour government , the divisions in the Labour party , the occurrence of the Falklands war in 1982 , and the divided non-Conservative vote in the 1983 and 1987 elections . |
| 23 | During both periods the same person ( S-MS ) did the countings blindly from the biopsy specimens which randomly represented the fundic ( oxyntic ) mucosa . |
| 24 | A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] . |
| 25 | At the start of the conference , the 18 countries which together comprised the European Community and the European Free Trade Area had agreed on this freeze as a common target . |
| 26 | Elections to the Chamber of Citizens and to the Chamber of Republics , which together comprised the new Federal Assembly , were scheduled for May 31 . |
| 27 | The first problem , which obviously reflected the Korean events , was defence of the frontier against external aggression . |
| 28 | Doug is a committee member of a local day centre , which desperately needed the new computer furniture the money was able to buy . |
| 29 | It was his marriage to his wife Danielle , the heiress to a family fortune , which finally secured the soap-opera image . |
| 30 | The inquiry provided the arena last month for Mr Reynolds ' allegation of dishonesty against his then cabinet colleague , and Progressive Democrats party leader , Des O'Malley a remark which finally shattered the fragile coalition administration . |