Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 2 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 3 | Broadly speaking , Swann provided a liberal , semi-official legitimation for tackling issues of racism ( or , more accurately , prejudice ) and what it coyly referred to as ‘ cultural pluralism ’ in all schools , including the so-called all-white schools which hitherto had maintained the stance of ‘ No problem ( i.e. blacks ) here ’ . |
| 4 | The subsequent lengthy coalition negotiations had revealed the preference of some ÖVP members for a coalition with the right-wing Liberal Party ( FPÖ ) , which together had formed the government in 1983-87 . |
| 5 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 6 | Results announced on Oct. 6 showed that 35 seats had been taken by outspoken critics of the government , described by the Washington Post as " drawn from a diverse group of Islamists , secular liberals and traditional politicians " , 15 of whom were said to be from districts which traditionally had supported the ruling family . |
| 7 | This marked a significant departure from previous foreign policy priorities which traditionally had made the Soviet Union the first place to be visited by a new Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Faces which earlier had seemed a little sombre were now wreathed in ecstatic smiles , and it was clear that this was what they had come to hear . |
| 9 | His wares made up the largest individual parcel in a massive consignment of plate exported to the Tsarina Anna in 1726 , much of which again had paid no duty . |
| 10 | Article 7 , which previously had defined the official role of organizations affiliated to the CPSU , was amended to read : " All political parties , social organizations and mass movements , in the exercise of the functions stipulated in their programmes and rules , operate within the framework of the Constitution and Soviet laws . " |
| 11 | As amended , Article 6 of the Constitution , which previously had enshrined the Communist Party as the " leading and guiding force in Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system " , now read : " The Communist Party of the Soviet Union , other political parties , trade unions , youth and other social organizations and mass movements participate in the formulation of the policy of the Soviet state and in the administration of state and social affairs through their representatives elected to the soviets of people 's deputies and in other ways . " |
| 12 | On the following day , however , a presidential commission investigating the role of the security forces during the November 1989 revolution published findings implicating Vacek , at that time Army Chief of Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister , in preparations by the Army high command to clamp down against the demonstrations which ultimately had overthrown the communist regime . |
| 13 | French intelligence claimed that his group was linked to the Lebanese Iranian-backed Hezbollah which allegedly had supplied the explosives . |
| 14 | This is illustrated by Grenfell v EB Meyrowitz Ltd [ 1936 ] 2 All ER 1313 , where the defendants were held not to be in breach of s13 when they supplied goggles of " safety glass " which subsequently had acquired a technical meaning and the goggles conformed to this design ( see R v Ford Motor Co [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1220 as to the meaning in the motor trade of a " new " car ) . |
| 15 | One version of what then ensued caused an uproar in France when it was published , a few months later , in Le Matin — through the evident complicity of a coterie of officers ardently desiring to install de Castelnau on Joffre 's throne . |