Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our results may explain the puzzling results from at least two previous trials , which failed to find an impact on morbidity even in the presence of a large effect on mortality . |
| 2 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 3 | Eliot felt that at Munich there had been a betrayal which seemed to demand an act of almost personal contrition . |
| 4 | When the United Kingdom did eventually join , therefore , she joined a well-established existing organisation , the original six members of which had developed an understanding and evolved an attitude towards the Community which the United Kingdom has not come easily to share . |
| 5 | There were also several reports of violence in the Cabinda enclave , where FAPLA soldiers were deployed to counter increased guerrilla activity from the separatist Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave ( FLEC ) which had declared an election boycott at the end of August . |
| 6 | The bridge across the Öresund was opposed by Finland , which had lodged an objection at the International Court of Justice on the grounds that its 65-metre clearance would be insufficient to allow the passage of oil drilling rigs manufactured by shipyards in the region . |
| 7 | Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province . |
| 8 | All six groups which had reached an agreement at Djibouti in July 1991 [ see p. 38322 ] , including the faction of the USC that continued to support Mahdi Mohammed , had on July 29 welcomed the UN resolution adopted two days earlier and the proposed deployment of UN troops in Somalia . |
| 9 | A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation . |
| 10 | According to the New York Times of Dec. 29 the KIO , which had managed an investment portfolio of $100,000 million from London , had seen " nearly 80 per cent of its huge Fund for Future Generations … used up to pay for bad investments and Gulf War expenses " . |
| 11 | CONCERN about the freeze on its annual grant is to be taken up with the Scottish Arts Council by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , which had expected an increase of at least 3 per cent . |
| 12 | On 4 June he announced that in the forthcoming referendum and elections Algeria would have a single electoral college , rather than the old dual college system , which had guaranteed an over-representation for Europeans . |
| 13 | and Otton J. ) affirmed his acquittal by the Crown Court ( which had allowed an appeal against conviction by justices ) on the ground that the defendant , when required to give blood , had raised an objection capable of amounting to a medical reason why blood should not be taken and that this could only be determined by a medical practitioner . |
| 14 | Saunders died 5 February 1870 in Dartford Heath , following a debilitating stroke two years earlier which had put an end to his trade activities . |
| 15 | It has even refused to injunct a magazine which had published an allegation it could not justify , where it might succeed at trial for other reasons : Soraya Kashoggi sought an injunction to withdraw " Woman 's Own " from circulation when it published a statement that she was having an extra-marital affair with a Head of State . |