Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people , or " the masses " , had usurped powers and functions which properly belonged to government and the state . |
| 2 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 3 | The Committee accepted the prototypes first , which duly arrived in January 1934 and were placed on display in Talbot Square ( Opposite ) . |
| 4 | There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity . |
| 5 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 6 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 7 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 8 | The Eastern fathers , and nearly all the Latin fathers too , held a view of the Devil which eventually fell into disrepute . |
| 9 | Bottom : Lotus four-litre V8 which eventually went to GM for Corvette |
| 10 | A gradual process began in countries liberated by the Red Army , which eventually resulted in governments across eastern Europe using police-state methods and carrying out Soviet-style economic reforms , the very antithesis of liberal democracy . |
| 11 | The three-day clash grossed £5 million which mostly came from acres of private hospitality tents . |
| 12 | You sent me 200 francs , 100 of which naturally went to Survage , without whose help I would have been completely broke … but now … |
| 13 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
| 14 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 15 | It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise . |
| 16 | The argument that , quite apart from the question of recklessness , the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 ( which only came into force in the UK in December 1986 ) does as a matter of law override the limitation provisions of both the Hague-Visby Rules and the Athens Convention ( for passenger claims ) will not be easily accepted by Norton Rose . |
| 17 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |
| 18 | The boat 's wrap-around windscreens were made of black polarised glass which only added to Dream Baby 's ugly air of menace . |
| 19 | But BBC boss-to-be John Birt has already had enough of the sun , sex and sangria saga , which only started in July . |
| 20 | She was mated to Ajax and produced two litters , the first one , in 1938 , contained five dogs , four of which apparently went to India and Pakistan , for reasons which seem to be obscure . |
| 21 | On the other hand , small temples like the one at Gournia and those towns , like palaikastro , which apparently managed without temples , may have organized the agricultural production of their own estates near by on a scale that was commensurate with their size and rate of population growth . |
| 22 | It will be noted they provided the bulk of the players for the Canadian side which so impressed against France and New Zealand in the World Cup . |
| 23 | Savings included reductions in subsidies for agricultural exports and increases in state controlled prices , particularly for fuel ( which rose by between 19 and 45 per cent ) , which together amounted to $426,000,000 . |
| 24 | On the other hand , his determination to win became such that he frequently appeared to condone his fast men bowling in an intimidating fashion , which obviously led to criticism from press and public . |
| 25 | In England , Wales and Scotland the new local government systems which finally came into operation in 1974 appeared to confirm a new status for local government , which was also reflected in significantly increased salaries for the chief officers of the new councils . |
| 26 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 27 | He had two almost contemporary biographies and a wealth of oral tradition to draw on , and out of these materials he made a lively and dramatic portrait , full of sentiment and warmth , which easily outdistanced in popularity the biographies written by later writers who tried to do better . |
| 28 | In that case , at any rate , there was little question of the boys ' dispute creating a relationship of permanent hostility between the two groups ; and this was in part the consequence of the wider peace , sanctioned by authority , which generally prevailed in Libya . |
| 29 | The popularity of physical sanctions to prevent masturbation , including the development of elaborate machines which sensitively responded to erections or physically prevented masturbation , has been well documented . |
| 30 | The picturesque result and subsequent offers to purchase , for substantially more than the couple had paid , were not lost on Jill 's father , chairman of a company which already specialised in timber frame building . |