Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position of the territory , situated to the northeast of Beijing , bordered to the east by Korea and with a long frontier with Russia , was somewhat ambiguous , Home of the Manchu Qing dynasty which ruled China from 1644 until its fall in 1911 , it had a distinct status shared with no other part of the empire . |
| 2 | He read metallurgy at Swansea University and received his PhD from there before joining the production group of the UKAEA which became BNFL in 1971 . |
| 3 | Given this assertion about the sexual nature of social ties , it is incumbent upon sociologists to examine the arguments , the conceptualizations and the observations which led Freud to this position . |
| 4 | The declaration of independence cited the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 ( 1947 ) which partitioned Palestine into two states , one Jewish and one Arab , as providing the legal basis for the right of the Palestinian people to national sovereignty and independence . |
| 5 | Because of their involvement with the magnetic Rothmans National Village Knockout tie at Christleton on Sunday , no Northop Hall players were included in Flintshire 's side which routed Montgomeryshire by eight wickets in double-quick time at Hawarden Park . |
| 6 | Francis Kaunda , chair and chief executive of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines ( ZCCM ) and son of former President Kenneth Kaunda , was dismissed immediately , as was the managing director of ZCCM , which provided Zambia with 93 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings . |
| 7 | They decided to move on to Muscle Bay , which provided Gould with few prizes . |
| 8 | Also under discussion today will be the inclusion of Boblyn Tuavao — the Tongan forward who has replaced Grima as the club 's third overseas player — in the Widnes side which beat Barrow at Craven Park last Sunday . |
| 9 | Not so another member of the Devon side which beat Cheshire by five wickets . |
| 10 | Thus , even when , on 12 December 1946 , the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which excluded Spain from all UN bodies and recommended members to withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid , the Generalísimo showed no sign of being ruffled . |
| 11 | One problem with the above studies which used GSR to different words as a manipulation of arousal is that the words producing high arousal were not necessarily the ones which would have been predicted a priori . |
| 12 | To celebrate the club has invited the team which played Barrow in 1962 . |
| 13 | Melanie was dark and very lovely , with an aura of warmth and tenderness which filled Leonora with unexpected dismay . |
| 14 | One aspect of the American success which pleased Laura above all was her eldest son 's achievement in creating his own niche within the company . |
| 15 | The event which affected Britain at this time was the fall from power of Magnentius . |
| 16 | We were billeted in the Grand Hotel , the massive Victorian pile which dominated Scarborough in turreted splendour from its eminence above the sea , and the big dining room was packed with several hundred shouting airmen , The iron discipline was relaxed for a few hours to let the Yuletide spirit run free . |
| 17 | The quality of the conceptualization of his thought was low , but the garrulous style of The Fascist and his pamphlets contained an implicit if dimly perceived racial philosophy which linked Leese to this tradition . |
| 18 | The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll immediately followed suit , unaffected by the fact that the proceeds were for research into Aids , the condition which killed Mapplethorpe in 1989 . |
| 19 | Gran could recall the last outbreak of cholera which hit Salisbury in 1849 , it was especially severe in her own parish of Saint Edmund and many people in the city died as a result . |
| 20 | For the first time the report also compiled a " human freedom index " ( HFI ) which placed Sweden in first place and Iraq last . |
| 21 | This is the book of the exhibition at the Villa Hügel , Essen , which examined London from 1800–1840 , a great age of expansion in trade and science , arts and scholarship ( closes 7 November ) . |
| 22 | Further , they certainly did not succeed in swimming against the deep tide of recession which engulfed Nigeria from 1983 onwards . |
| 23 | It was the quest for a greater managerial role which took Ian in 1989 to the York based confectionery giant , where he is one of two in-house solicitors . |
| 24 | The Black Death , which reached England in 1348 , remained virulent in the following year , and recurred frequently in succeeding centuries , probably originated in central Asia and spread to the Black Sea area along the trans-Asian trade routes . |
| 25 | ‘ I may not approve of the theology , ’ Laura perused a Caravaggio , which pictured Elvis as one of the three kings offering gifts to the infant Jesus ; Elvis was offering a tiny guitar , ‘ but the quality , the sheer magnificence . |
| 26 | An ultimatum had at last been agreed , which gave Hitler until eleven o'clock next morning to withdraw from Poland lock , stock and barrel . |
| 27 | Curiously , China , which invaded Tibet in 1950 , seems unperturbed by his friendly reception in the West . |
| 28 | Only his eyes , widely spaced , were differently shaped , large blue spheres with , above them , straight bushy eyebrows which reminded Neil of pale and delicate caterpillars . |
| 29 | He was buried on 29th December , 1587 , having died possible of the plague , which struck Stockport between 1587 and 1592 . |
| 30 | Thus , there seems little doubt that it was bubonic plague which struck Chesterfield in 1586–87 . |