Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |
| 2 | The press made much of his brother Geoffrey 's Chairmanship of the Tramway Museum Society , which operated vintage trams at its Museum in Derbyshire . |
| 3 | The ideological dimension favoured in the explanation of Continental fertility differences seems less applicable to Britain , which lacked major foci of religious or social dissent . |
| 4 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 5 | When I was a junior doctor in hospitals in the late 1920s , I had under my care a doctor , then over 60 , who told me that when he was young in London , he knew of a doctor 's plate which conveyed this message to prospective patients : Medicine and advice fourpence , superior ditto sixpence . |
| 6 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 7 | A country which experienced volatile movements in capital flows , operating under a floating regime , would find that balance of payments equilibrium might be attained only by tolerating very wide swings in the foreign exchange value of its currency . |
| 8 | This file , or one identical to it , had emerged the victor of a curious contest at the Exhibition between Turtons ' English Files and a French company which manufactured another brand of file . |
| 9 | Will it be the Minister , the Secretary of State , the employers , the trade unions or some quango in which failed Tory Members of Parliament serve on inflated salaries ? |
| 10 | Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s . |
| 11 | The reports are debated in the House and we follow the practice of the Select Committee on Procedure which recommended three days for such reports . |
| 12 | There were British studios , like Rank 's Independent Producers or Ealing in the 1940s , that , for a time at least , produced a similarly productive working environment , providing constraints for directors and writers to work against , and dedicated script departments which produced competent material for them to work from . |
| 13 | Only later was a full investigation made of the events in Dallas by a commission under Chief Justice Earl Warren , which produced 26 volumes of evidence . |
| 14 | Cathedrals are also , to a small extent , helping to revive the tradition of patronage which produced such riches in the past . |
| 15 | Whatever the particular context of such changes , these studies demonstrate that a set of transformations in material culture which may be found to permeate almost every trivial domain , from chimneys to rubbish disposal , can be understood as a largely unconscious and unintentional response by a variety of social groups , which produced new forms of demand and new means of incorporating the emergence of mass produced items . |
| 16 | The pavement was made in the famous Corinium workshop at Cirencester , which produced many mosaics for other Roman villas in the Cotswolds . |
| 17 | A survey conducted by Chittagong University 's Economics Department showed that the Satkhira region , which produced 40,000 tonnes of rice in 1976 , yielded only 360 tonnes ten years later . |
| 18 | He was a great businessman who ran a company which produced unique goods for 70 or 80 years . |
| 19 | It is also an area which produced several variations in style from the Pisan school centred on Pisa and Lucca to the work in Florence with its coloured marble facings and the districts further south in Assisi and Rome where contacts with the Lombard style are notable . |
| 20 | Immediately afterwards , however , came the Afghanistan invasion , which produced more problems for détente and US-European relations . |
| 21 | The Morgan case created a legal debate which produced some contortions of legal reasoning . |
| 22 | ( 1979 ) produced isopleths of precipitation acidity for selected periods which revealed increasing acidity between 1955–6 and 1975–6 and an enlargement of the area affected by acid precipitation in eastern North America . |
| 23 | For example Camden social services department made public the findings of an independent review of their homes which revealed that lack of recreational activities and opportunities for choice , lack of training for staff and management difficulties were all interwoven ( Booth , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Henry VII himself supplemented the eyre with judicial proceedings of other kinds , such as the judicial inquiry in 1494 into offences in Pickering Forest , which revealed extensive destruction of vert and venison . |
| 25 | Cleveland Trading Standards brought the prosecution against Munro Teesside Ltd , of North Ormesby , Middlesbrough , which admitted five offences under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 26 | The pictures of bombing in Iraq which became familiar viewing during the Gulf War were taken from Buccaneers . |
| 27 | In particular , he denounced the accusations of child-murder and ritual abuse which became standard elements in Viennese demonology in that decade . |
| 28 | He masked the fear in his eyes with the vacant , subservient glaze which became second nature to military personnel . |
| 29 | In 1889 she published a Guide to District Nurses and Home Nursing which became essential reading for district nurses . |
| 30 | An annual further education programme was one of the things which became possible thanks to the availability of full-time professional staff . |