Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " 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 | Those few councils which sought substantially to exceed government guidelines were brought sharply into line . |
| 3 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |
| 4 | ‘ I smelled as much ! ’ declared the newcomer , a remark which served only to inflame Dauntless 's discomfort . |
| 5 | All of which served merely to raise Frankenstein 's spirits . |
| 6 | Betty was wearing a dressing-gown , a circumstance which served further to upset Lydia , who nevertheless painted her mouth bright red to facilitate her smile and set about connecting the bottled gas to the stove . |
| 7 | The reception in Tarland village hall had a buffet which included locally caught salmon followed by a ceilidh with dancing until the small hours . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The context then was the electron microscope , which demanded accurately controlled sources of electrons , and lenses with well-defined focal properties . |
| 10 | While I would not seek to question the decision of the judges of a number of the awards ( although you may note for the record , however , that there were a lot of eyebrows raised in the trade by the comments on and judging of Helpware magazine , which won both contract title of the year and runner-up to best consumer launch of the year in the 1992 Publishing Awards ) , I would like to question the appropriateness of the chairman of the judges presiding over a ceremony where his own company won the most number of awards . |
| 11 | It was Aunt Bessie 's death , coupled with another event , which did finally bring Mother and Father together permanently . |
| 12 | It was these wars , unsurprisingly , which did most to give life to the ideal of unity . |
| 13 | Completions in the Midlands and South of England were 3103 , 17 per cent down from 1991 figures , which reflected both reduced sales outlets as well as the more difficult market . |
| 14 | Macedonia and Bosnia-Hercegovina , which had also sought recognition , were not included . |
| 15 | The concession resulted from negotiations initiated by the Georgian Interior Ministry which had also secured agreement by Ossete militants to surrender weapons stolen from the police . |
| 16 | She was the same medium height too , with the lithe slenderness which had also characterised Isabelle . |
| 17 | The issue which provided the main focus of disagreement , and which had also thwarted progress on the CFE and START negotiations , had been the future political and military status of a united Germany . |
| 18 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 19 | Referring to the meeting which had just taken place in Dublin , Sir Patrick addressed the House of Commons thus : |
| 20 | Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It did not conceal his monstrous organ , the end of which had temporarily found lodgement in the eye socket of the defunct toddler . |
| 23 | The resolution said that the campaign of forced assimilation waged against the ethnic-Turkish minority since 1984 had been based on arbitrary and autocratic decisions which had flagrantly violated Bulgaria 's Constitution and international treaty commitments and had eroded national unity . |
| 24 | There was extensive unrest in the west midlands , and in particular in Staffordshire , and these were the areas which had rapturously received Dr Sacheverell on his triumphant progress following his trial of 1710 . |
| 25 | She said action had already been taken under the new chief executive , Martin Gorham , which had dramatically improved call ringing times and led to a steady improvement in ambulance response times . |
| 26 | As acting Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces under Marcos , Ramos had led a military mutiny in support of Aquino , and it was this which had finally convinced Marcos that he could no longer continue to cling to office . |
| 27 | As acting Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Ramos had led the military mutiny in early 1986 in support of President Corazon Aquino which had finally driven Marcos from office . |
| 28 | The attractions of home-ownership in times when property prices are falling and also when interest rates are high are that much less , and the Conservative government , which had strongly promoted home-ownership was faced with considerable public disquiet . |
| 29 | On Nov. 25 Norway , which had narrowly rejected EC membership in a referendum in 1972 [ see pp. 25525-26 ] , re-applied for EC membership , becoming the fifth EFTA country to apply , following Austria in July 1989 [ see pp. 36822 ; 38353 ] , Sweden in July 1991 [ see pp. 38353 ; 39064 ] , Finland in March 1992 [ see above ] and Switzerland in May 1992 [ see p. 38930 ] . |
| 30 | Landowners pursue ‘ modern Whims ’ across a landscape exposing those places which had formerly given comfort to ‘ the hapless swain' . |