Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain had its own discussions , spurred on by the Wootton Report on Drug Dependency , published in July 1969 , which recommended substantially reduced penalties for pot-smoking . |
| 2 | On 6 April the USA declared war on Germany and on the following 8 May a conference was held between the US Shipping Board , the US Steamship Owners and the US International Seamen 's Union which resulted in what became known as the " Atlantic Agreement " which laid down manning levels , wages and bonuses . |
| 3 | Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove , in their book , The Wise Wound , show how the taboos surrounding menstruation in western culture are just as oppressive ( perhaps even more so ) as those of religious structures which lay down washing rituals . |
| 4 | On the English side , what was needed was an army to fulfil two essential functions : conquest and maintenance of that conquest , requirements which demanded both field armies and garrisons . |
| 5 | The context then was the electron microscope , which demanded accurately controlled sources of electrons , and lenses with well-defined focal properties . |
| 6 | They stated that the government would spend half the revenues raised to pay debts and would cut expenditure in 1993 , including axing projects which did not generate jobs . |
| 7 | The offence was a one-off which did not affect convictions before or since , he added . |
| 8 | The case was the first review of random testing of federal employees and the first in which the court upheld testing which did not involve workers concerned with public safety . |
| 9 | B : Inhibition of the binding of AR , RJ2.2.5 and Raji nuclear extracts to the X-box by anti-Fos antiserum ; binding reactions which did not contain anti-Fos ( — in lanes 3 , 6 and 9 ) were supplemented with 1 µg of non-immune antiserum . |
| 10 | This was necessary to create a convincing case for EC excise duty ‘ harmonisation ’ which did not penalise spirits . |
| 11 | The Labour Party began to lose by-elections , and the performance of the Conservative Party improved substantially even in those seats which did not change hands . |
| 12 | This class consisted of curved spaces without singularities , which were of finite size but which did not have boundaries or edges . |
| 13 | The ‘ Dublin ’ trolley masts which did not have caps over the swivelling tops , were found to let in water and the top parts were soon fitted with waterproof canvas socks . |
| 14 | As I look back to my inner training in prayer , I see an early stage when it consisted of asking God 's blessing on myself and those I loved , then through a stage of mental meditation , and finally a merging into contemplation , which did not need words , but a silent awareness of the presence of God , which sometimes continued for a quarter of an hour or more . |
| 15 | Those communities which did not receive franchises seem to have suffered a greater degree of extortion , as their lords strove to recover some of the profits they were losing elsewhere . |
| 16 | It would certainly not seem sensible to teach these skills in a context which did not allow children to put them to use immediately , nor would it seem sensible to teach them through sets of exercises independent of any meaningful content area . |
| 17 | Caduta frequently addressed me in Italian too , which did n't make things any clearer . |
| 18 | Then the children started coming along — rather quickly , I fear , and seven in number , which did n't help matters one bit . |
| 19 | which did n't help matters . |
| 20 | It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development . |
| 21 | Both Iran ( which had already sent arms ) and Saudi Arabia expressed their readiness to send troops to Bosnia . |
| 22 | This rumour may have done what the poll tax did in 1381 , set fire to a potentially explosive situation , indeed one which had already shown signs of bursting into flame . |
| 23 | In addition , visits were made to a number of schools , both primary and secondary , which had already submitted reports , in order to interview staff about their experiences in connection with the scheme . |
| 24 | Some local societies which had previously formed branches of that organisation may have survived as benefit clubs but nothing of substance is known about these , nor about such non-affiliated organisations as the Liverpool based British Mariner 's Association which in 1857 was to be found at 6 , Columbian Buildings at that port . |
| 25 | Didsbury , St Osyth 's , Worcester and others which had previously had discussions with the CNAA were either already back in discussion , or were soon to be so . |
| 26 | This was just after the Licensing Act was repealed , which had previously confined printers to London , York , and Oxford and Cambridge universities . |
| 27 | Next he took from his pocket a small circuit board , which had hastily soldered connections jumbled across it , linked to a small cube . |
| 28 | The site of the Lincoln excavation was a pottery kiln on the Racecourse which had very limited possibilities in the days before magnetic prospecting . |
| 29 | De facto dual recognition was also boosted by agreements with Australia and Canada to upgrade their offices in Taiwan , while Saudi Arabia , which had recently established relations with China , allowed Taiwan to retain the use of its former embassy . |
| 30 | He argued that support for Inkatha , which had consistently opposed sanctions , was thus " non-party political " . |