Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leavening of men and women who had worked abroad for a number of years provided a yeast which helped to bring about change within the island . |
| 2 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 3 | A murmur which seemed to contain both relief and triumph went around the table , but this time M. Dupont raised his voice slightly and pronounced over it : ‘ I am happy to assure you all here that I will bring what modest influence I have to encourage certain changes of emphasis in French policy in accordance with much of what has been said here . |
| 4 | Which meant sorting out wheat from chaff , and living like a rajah while he did so . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed . |
| 6 | The mass movement which had swept away tsarism and the Provisional Government was mastered , curbed and ultimately crushed by Lenin and his party . |
| 7 | On Jan. 13 , 1990 , the Treasurer , Paul Keating , announced a first relaxation of the restrictive monetary policy , which had pushed up interest rates to 18 per cent for mortgages and at least 20 per cent for other borrowing . |
| 8 | It was a continuation , in effect , of the 1930s Special Areas policy ( which had received further impetus from the Barlow Report on industrial location ) and from the carry-over of wartime controls which gave the government far more effective power in its sphere than it had ever possessed [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough was one of ten clubs which had taken out promotion policies totalling £2m . |
| 10 | It also brought cheer to the giant Decca record company , which had set up Deram precisely to capture back from the new independent companies some of the money pumping into what there was of Britain 's counter culture . |