Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have examined data from a survey conducted by one of us in which timed overnight urinary albumin excretion was measured in 976 European and 789 south Asian men aged 40–69 in west London . |
| 2 | But their very strength , and their androgynous uniform , was invoked in the campaign to abolish their right to the work , a campaign which divided both male miners and coal owners during the 1890s . |
| 3 | That temporary phenomenon was possible only because of an EC support control mechanism which passed away last January and brought smiles to thousands of faces . |
| 4 | It will be recalled that Newcastle and Sheffield were also the universities which produced most uncited theses , and fewest highly-cited theses . |
| 5 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |
| 6 | The grouping of the predator species in terms of incisor loss is almost exactly the same as other indicators of mandibular damage , and the main difference is that the snowy owl , which produced slightly ambivalent results for mandibular breakage , has low proportions of incisor loss ( Table 3.8 ) . |
| 7 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 8 | The first point to note , therefore , is that many of the disruptions in the first evacuation scheme , which produced so much distress in the children ( resulting , in particular , in bed-wetting ) were primarily the result of poor civil defence planning . |
| 9 | Everyone knitted , men , women and children , and the method , which produced very fast knitting was called ‘ striking the loop ’ , and , in some areas , described as ‘ waving ’ ( weaving ) . |
| 10 | The first two Conservative governments presided over an economy which produced ever increasing numbers of unemployed people . |
| 11 | The inadequacies of such a claim were starkly illustrated by subsequent sociological investigations in educational achievement ( see Chapter 8 on education ) during the 1950s and 1960s , which revealed sharply unequal chances in grammar school entry between middle-class and working-class children . |
| 12 | Bassetlaw and Central Nottinghamshire had sites which housed both social services and health service staff . |
| 13 | It would be wrong to assume that only those who were privileged with the franchise were concerned with the outcome of electoral contests , since those without the right to vote were often able to make their feelings known through demonstrations or riots , which became increasingly common features of electoral contests at this time . |
| 14 | This was not an ecstatic vision of God which laid aside human intelligence . |
| 15 | When this happened the huge anti-American feeling which arose soon squashed signing-up for courses and the University students went out on a protest strike , so classes were not attended . |
| 16 | I worked in a shop which sold very beautiful furniture and rather up-market Swedish glass . |
| 17 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 18 | One premise of the deduction is his hypothesis , which made quite explicit reads , ‘ Bats are able to fly avoiding obstacles by using their eyes , and can not do so without the use of their eyes ’ . |
| 19 | Each year there were a few sex crime trials which got particularly extensive publicity . |
| 20 | In 1982 the programme area was extended to cover an adjoining neighbourhood , California Kirkbride , which registered similarly high rates of deprivation to the original six neighbourhoods ( Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny , Fineview , Manchester and Perry South ) . |
| 21 | But they very soon did , for within a few days , on October 19 , Keith made a speech in Edgbaston which demonstrated almost unbelievable ineptitude for someone in the running for the Leadership . |
| 22 | In the last two phases , the preoccupation was in creating ‘ alliances ’ — temporary unity in action for immediate purposes by forces which pursued ultimately incompatible aims . |
| 23 | It argued that outbreaks of fire in Underground stations were seen as inevitable by management , which monitored strictly financial matters , rather than safety . |
| 24 | IN HIS book , All the Presidents ' Wits , Gerald Gardner quotes Ronald Reagan remembering a speech he gave in Mexico City as Californian governor which created so little applause he was embarrassed when he sat down . |
| 25 | It must surely have been that quality , suggestive of significance , which drew so many writers and designers to vernacular styles , in both the later Victorian and the Edwardian periods . |
| 26 | The move also followed the passing of budget resolutions by the House of Representatives on May 1 and by the budget committee of the Senate on May 2 , both of which embodied much deeper cuts in military expenditure than those contained within the Bush budget , which was increasingly viewed as obsolete because of its failure to address the implications of the radical change in Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | This is a United Nations embargo , er and er all ships are required to comply with it , er and er the British , Australian , American ships which combined in this action , and we 've just had another one , and er also , there which involved also different ships , but involved er British , Australian and American ships as well , er and that ship is being inspected at the present time . |
| 28 | Fujimori had rejected US$35,900,000 in US military anti-drug aid in September [ see p. 37708 ] , insisting that a successful programme to suppress the growing of coca , which involved over 200,000 peasant farmers , depended on the development of alternative crops with guaranteed foreign markets and not on outright eradication measures . |
| 29 | At the last minute , however , when the terms were being finalised at the papal court , the French withdrew : the making of such concessions , which involved so much principle as well as territory , could not be countenanced . |
| 30 | Emphasis in the denudation chronology of southeast England centred upon drainage evolution and upon erosion surfaces which were later described as planation surfaces ; relied upon interpretations based upon morphological evidence and information from fragmentary deposits ; and produced a model which involved early Tertiary planation , mid Tertiary uplift , late Tertiary planation , early Quaternary planation by a Calabrian shoreline and subsequent valley development during Quaternary sea levels at successively lower altitudes . |