Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state had not elected a Republican governor since the Reconstruction period which had followed the Civil War . |
| 2 | Manville thrust the telex aside and turned his full attention to the more detailed report which had followed the preparatory message just four days later . |
| 3 | After the inflation and eventual recession of the 1970s and the greedy pursuit of money in the 1980s , people ( especially the young ) rediscovered some of the faith in the future and the enthusiasm for change which had characterized the 1960s . |
| 4 | Thus , his willingness to enter budgetary talks without preconditions — a point made by Bush to congressional leaders on May 6 — was welcomed by many Democrats as evidence of a new realism on the part of the administration when compared with the use of accounting manoeuvres and optimistic forecasts which had characterized the 1991 budget proposal . |
| 5 | Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign . |
| 6 | However , the massive exports which had generated the necessary finances had been one of the main causes of the extreme economic hardship suffered by ordinary Romanians . |
| 7 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 8 | In contrast , it was the activity of the applicants which had deprived the British fishing industry of its legitimate expectation under the quota system . |
| 9 | Lanfranc himself was only partly converted , and , even in his last days , he was still giving quantities of the bodies of his predecessors , which had filled the old church before the fire of 1067 , to his new foundation of canons outside the walls of the city . |
| 10 | The profound changes in the economy and society which had swept the old feudal practices away were for Marx and Engels merely an expression of the profound changes which had first taken place in the mode of production . |
| 11 | This brought to an end a two-week crisis which had presented the first serious threat to communist rule in Albania since its establishment during the Second World War . |
| 12 | The terrible fire , which had destroyed the historical centre of Lisbon in the summer of 1988 was at that time still fresh in the memory . |
| 13 | On Feb. 10 , 15 of the 23 parties which had contested the municipal elections had said that they would not participate in the legislative elections . |
| 14 | ‘ The individual producer , or the individual as the elementary subject of production , which eighteenth century mythology imagined to be at the origin of society 's economic development … only appeared , even as an ‘ appearance ’ in developed capitalist society , that is , in the society which had developed the social character of production to the highest degree . ’ |
| 15 | In early May Pascal-Trouillot reconstituted the nine-member Provisional Electoral Council ( Conseil Electoral Provisoire — CEP ) , which contained three members of the old CEP which had overseen the aborted 1987 elections , including its chairman Jean-Robert Sabalat . |
| 16 | As a programme of state medicine it was quite as significant as that which had shaped the environmental reforms seventy years before . |
| 17 | Conservatives shared the Kirkpatrick view of foreign affairs ; it was the Soviet Union 's will to conquest which had shaped the entire world , plucking into being the entire defensive structure behind which we lived . |
| 18 | Intense negotiations between both sides and Onusal had produced a breakthrough on June 15 , when the government conceded a key FMLN demand , announcing that the laws which had created the extreme right-wing paramilitary National Guard and Treasury Police would be repealed by the National Assembly . |
| 19 | But the significance of the political and religious events of the mid sixteenth century , and in particular Mary 's part in shaping them , can only be properly understood in the context of the traditional political and social patterns which had created the sixteenth-century Scottish kingdom . |
| 20 | He had rejoiced in its glossy purplish midsummer beauty which had sheltered the gentle ring-doves that cooed among its branches . |
| 21 | Some commentators regarded him as the leader of a conservative faction which had opposed the economic reformist policies of CPV general secretary Nguyen Van Linh . |
| 22 | She would have to pass through the parlour to reach the kitchen , an arrangement which had shocked the pampered girl she had been , but it was obviously designed to conserve space in the small house . |
| 23 | In short , quite apart from economic or foreign policy considerations , the social momentum which had sustained the British throughout their difficult experiences since 1945 was not being maintained . |
| 24 | The four opposition parties which had formed the Democratic Bloc in May [ see p. 38982 ] voiced opposition to the constitutional proposals . |
| 25 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 26 | The loss in the general election of one of the Nevis seats held by the NRP ( which had retained four seats in the December 1987 elections to the Nevis island Assembly ) to the CCM ( which had gained the remaining elective seat ) revived speculation about the eventual secession of Nevis from the federation . |
| 27 | Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) which had gained the largest number of seats in elections to the National Assembly held on Nov. 16 , 1988 ( see pp. 36347-48 ) , was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 2 , and a new federal Cabinet was appointed on Dec. 4 . |
| 28 | Other fears expressed at the debate included the belief that republics with more recent experience of private farming , for example the three Baltic republics ( which had joined the Soviet Union only in 1940 ) , would develop at different rates to other parts of the country which had experienced only collectivized agriculture . |
| 29 | The Greeks did not react — or rather did not go beyond the surface of Roman life — until they found themselves faced with a first-class power which had defeated the Greek armies of Pyrrhus on the open field . |
| 30 | As for the Treaty of Paris , which had ended the Crimean War , this was less liked by the French than by their ally . |