Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more sophisticated form of vernacular religious music of the Counter-Reformation was the madrigale spirituale which began to flower in 1581 with the publication of the first book of Madrigali spirituali a cinque voci by the Imperial Kapellmeister Philipp de Monte ( 1521–1603 ) , another Italianized Fleming . |
| 2 | The new printers join the HP 5000 model F100 , which began shipping in 1992 . |
| 3 | Cats Meow , which began shipping in 1991 , is a system for building interactive information applications on Sun workstations using graphics , audio , text and video . |
| 4 | Scott could not succeed without outside finance , and soon this was supplied by David Astor , then editor of the London Observer , who put up half the money for a new venture , the Central African Mail , which began publishing in 1960 . |
| 5 | By doing so they tied their fortunes even more firmly to the popularity of the Soviet Union , placing a series of time-bombs under themselves which began exploding in 1947 and 1948 . |
| 6 | This stripping away of extraneous duties continued under its successor , the College of Foreign Affairs , which began to function in 1719 , and well before the end of the century this process of specialization had been completed . |
| 7 | The indispensable starting point is the annual International Bibliography of Historical Sciences which began to appear in 1930 and is now published at Paris with the assistance of UNESCO . |
| 8 | Besides the obvious encyclopedias , most countries produce several annual or periodical repertories of useful information ; a well-known British example is The Statesman 's Yearbook , which began to appear in 1864 . |
| 9 | Mr Wiley , who is 82 , is a great-great-grandson of the founder of the company , which started publishing in 1807 . |
| 10 | The prescriptions which had emerged in 1988 and from those conditions of service for teachers which had been introduced by the 1987 Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act had , despite criticisms and resistance , created some new certainties . |
| 11 | It included measures to eliminate imbalances which had emerged in 1988-89 , to improve external competitiveness and to promote reforms in the financial sector . |
| 12 | For the reality behind the 1958 conflict was the reawakening of the old dispute between pro-Arab nationalism and pro-Western Maronitisme , the same antagonism which had emerged in 1920 when the French created Lebanon . |
| 13 | The situation which had developed in 1747 was in fact identical with that of 1726 , with one friend in opposition to another , and the politician being asked to choose between them . |
| 14 | The communiqué also called for a reconvening of the international Paris peace conference which had met in mid-1989 [ see pp. 36848-49 ] and for the designation of Angkor Wat as a non-hostility area . |
| 15 | There was no year on the letters , but they must necessarily come after the publication of Ash 's dramatic poems , Gods , Men and Heroes , which had appeared in 1856 and had not , contrary to Ash 's hopes and perhaps expectations , found favour with the reviewers , who had declared his verses obscure , his tastes perverse and his people extravagant and improbable . |
| 16 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |
| 17 | In the early 1960s county planners were estimating that mining employment in the Cramlington area would fall to about 2500 jobs by 1971 compared with the 6000 jobs which had existed in 1955 . |
| 18 | The Canadian Senate , which was widely perceived as being in need of reform , had possessed a solid Liberal majority as a legacy of 21 years of almost uninterrupted Liberal government which had ended in 1984 . |
| 19 | South Africa ( a founder FAO member which had withdrawn in 1964 ) was expected to apply for readmission , but withdrew after the Organization for African Unity ( OAU ) had indicated that such a move was " premature " . |
| 20 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 21 | The poem with that title was one of four published under the pseudonym Sagitta in 1905 in the Berlin gay journal Der Eigene , which had begun in 1896 as an anarchist journal in the direction of Max Stirner ( reflected in the title : der Eigene equals self-owner , in the meaning given that word by Stirner ) , but from 1898 was openly homosexual . |
| 22 | Three of the four employees were formally accused of fraud and forgery , and Fuji admitted to having suffered losses of 27,100 million yen ( about $200 million ) as a result of the scheme which had begun in 1987 . |
| 23 | Negotiations on the treaty , which had begun in 1968 , were stalled for many years . |
| 24 | The sale of Tongan passports , for US$10,000 or more , which had begun in 1984 , was declared illegal by parliament in 1988 . |
| 25 | It welcomed the " Slessor talks " ( which had begun in 1951 ) as a model for non-military as well as defence issues — evidently hoping that greater frankness in informal meetings would satisfy British aspirations . |
| 26 | By the end of the eighteenth century the American colonies had been lost and the French Revolution , which had begun in 1789 , was at its height . |
| 27 | The Justice Department 's so-called " Ill Wind " investigation into abuses of power in connection with defence contracting , which had started in 1989 [ see pp. 36679-80 ] , continued , leading to a number of convictions involving senior business and government personnel . |
| 28 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 29 | Much later , in 1988 , Michael Burn , in Mary and Richard , published a selection of the love letters which had passed in 1942 between Hillary and Mary Booker , an understanding and beautiful woman twenty-two years Hillary 's senior , whom Burn later married . |
| 30 | The background to the case lay in two allegations brought against the company in respect of incidents which had occurred in 1990 at their Newton Aycliffe factory , where microwave ovens were manufactured . |