Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 2 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 3 | Within the holdings , the biggest disappointment was Thomson Corporation , which failed to live up to the hopes expressed in the last article that ( a ) the travel side would benefit from the collapse of Intasun , a major competitor , ( b ) that the results of the North American ( and at a later stage UK ) newspaper interests would reflect a developing cyclical upturn , and ( c ) that the professional publishing companies would maintain their profits momentum . |
| 4 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 5 | They allowed the banking system to respond to demands from capitalists for credit at rates of interest which failed to keep up with inflation ( that is , at declining ‘ real ’ interest rates ) . |
| 6 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 7 | It is recorded that the area north of the river was probably uninhabitable with dense forests to the north and east of the area which became known later as Middlesex , with heath and scrub to the south , except along the margin of the river , which ‘ margin ’ was of considerable width . |
| 8 | The advance of these oil-producing countries , which became known collectively as the ‘ non-OPEC ’ group , was a notable feature of the early 1980s . |
| 9 | The recession also led to the demand for the provision of greater economic security for the average citizen , which became embodied subsequently in the growth of the welfare state following the election of the Labour Government in 1945 . |
| 10 | Logging firm West Frazer Mills , which planned to cut up to 1.5 million cubic metres of timber in the area , said the decision would result in the loss of 80 jobs . |
| 11 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 12 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 13 | Calico , which got started back in the early 1980s and which Unir claims AT&T could n't push because of USL and C++ , has reportedly 200 man/years invested in it . |
| 14 | Pooled drop out rates from the 58 trials which reported drop out by treatment group . |
| 15 | This is a very efficient heat-transfer mechanism , and if it existed all the way into the region of the atmosphere which radiated to space then by today the Jovian interior would have lost almost all of its heat of formation , and any remnant could not be a significant source of internal energy . |
| 16 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 17 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 18 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 19 | To make a living he worked at Sothebys for two years and then set up business selling Cartier objects and jewelry which involved travelling all around the world . |
| 20 | Adopting a laissez faire economic approach which involved working closely with entrepreneurs , the group had transformed the ALP into the natural party of government at state and federal level throughout most of the 1980s . |
| 21 | The breakthrough came with the middle-of-the-road National Union of Railwaymen , which promised to come up with their target £150,000 ‘ subject to a positive response from a number of other unions ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ It was perfectly safe for them to cross , ’ said Mr Hubbard , ‘ but they did not take account of this car which came hurtling along through these red lights . |
| 23 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 24 | After five minutes the decision was made for them : they were jumped by six D-Vs which came dropping out of a stretch of dirty cloud . |
| 25 | As the sun begins to rise she glances out of the window and recalls how she chose this film from all the offers which came pouring in after success on the small screen and on record . |
| 26 | As the rim brushed her groin Sally felt a sharp sweet pleasure which seemed to shoot up inside her on silken cords to that deep core where the trickles of excitement played every time she thought of Pete . |
| 27 | He thanked her for coming and saw her off the premises , but he was left wondering at her distress which seemed to arise more from fear than from grief . |
| 28 | They passed a house which seemed to hang perilously onto the hillside . |
| 29 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 30 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |