Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There Millett J having held that the part of a non-solicitation clause which gave protection to the plaintiff was valid but that the part which sought to give protection to an associated company of the plaintiff was invalid had then to decide whether the invalid part could be severed or whether the whole clause was invalid . |
| 2 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 3 | This has certainly been the view of groups which sought to draw attention to the problems of the long-term unemployed and older workers — notably the Unemployment Alliance in the 1980s and now the Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment ( CAADE ) . |
| 4 | Not only were connections with the Labour Party broken but the Bradford Conference , against the advice of the NAC , decided to discontinue paying the Trade Union political levy ; to withdraw from membership of the Co-operative Party ; and to forbid ILP Members from holding any position in the Labour movement which involved giving support to the policies of the Labour Party . |
| 5 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 6 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 7 | The policy of economic rigour and monetary stability , which had kept inflation to around 3 per cent , would nevertheless be maintained . |
| 8 | Reports in late October confirmed that France had arrested key members of a Paris-based Russian espionage ring which had gained access to highly classified information on nuclear experiments . |
| 9 | On a shelf stood wilting plants and very small stuffed animals , squirrels and starlings which had fallen victim to the chase . |
| 10 | During the 1930s , for example , family allowances were seen by increasing numbers of people as a method of combating the falling birth rate which had given rise to widespread fear of an ever declining population . |
| 11 | While the majority of Japanese remained ignorant of Western social values and customs , and of the background which had given rise to them , the new Meiji government was already moving fast to demolish the formal apparatus of Tokugawa society . |
| 12 | First , the mother lacked parenting skills which had given rise to emotional harm caused to the children . |
| 13 | Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services . |
| 14 | These measures , collectively known as the Tory Reaction , meant that by 1685 the opposition alliance which had given rise to the first Whig party had largely crumbled . |
| 15 | They will come to realize that the factor which had given rise to their positive , constant prediction errors under adaptive expectations was the excess demand component , . |
| 16 | Lords Forte , Taylor ( of the construction giant Taylor Woodrow ) , Weinstock , King , Edwin McAlpine , Matthews , Vinson and Sieff had also coincidentally been associated with companies which had given money to the Conservative cause . |
| 17 | The frigate , an SKR 815 under the command of Ukrainian Sergei Nastenko and manned by a crew which had sworn loyalty to Ukraine in January , left Donuzla on the Crimean peninsula without permission on July 21 and hoisted the Ukrainian flag . |
| 18 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 19 | Among the organizations which had put pen to paper were the Farmers Union of Wales , the Somerset Community Health Council and the regional Youth Hostels Association . |
| 20 | Industrial output , including state-sector industrial output , had begun to rise in April , after two years of decline which had reduced production to 45 per cent of pre-1989 levels . |
| 21 | Even more spectacular was the Liverpool affair of August 1775 which occurred against the background of the American War of Independence , the beginning of which had interrupted trade to such an extent that some 3,000 seamen were swelling the ranks of the normal Liverpool unemployed . |
| 22 | In addition , there were local initiatives such as Club 403 which attempted to provide viewdata to domestic consumers in a limited geographical area . |
| 23 | Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else . |