Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He provided time rapidly for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House which concerned curtailing hon. Members ' hours . |
| 2 | The official receiver has been called into the firm , which ceased trading last June . |
| 3 | But a spokesman for Wrekin council , which admitted losing 600 protesters ' letters , said : ‘ There is nothing like it in Europe . |
| 4 | The joint efforts of Swire 's , Jardine Matheson , and the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank ( which provided unstinting financial support ) enabled Hong Kong to rise from its rubble and become one of the commercial successes of the eastern world . |
| 5 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 6 | ‘ For example , last summer the Royal Bank did a deal which involved issuing depositary shares in the US . |
| 7 | At that time we were also building a similar data base on another CAD system , which involved re-writing all software to suit . |
| 8 | Phil Judd , of Ski Tech Systems , pulled off the deal which involved supplying enough matting to lay a 200m piste . |
| 9 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 10 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 11 | In his place , the Shah had very little idea of what was happening , Shorn of more and more of his powers but Mossadeq , who tended to ignore him , the Shah retreated into alternating bouts of gloom and high spirits which involved playing practical jokes on guests . |
| 12 | Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others . |
| 13 | It is as though the programme of Galileo and Locke , which involved discarding secondary qualities ( colour , taste , etc. ) in favour of primary qualities ( the quantities of classical mechanics ) , had been carried a stage further and these primary qualities had themselves become secondary to the property of potentia in which they all lay latent . |
| 14 | ‘ We learnt a lot during this first phase , which involved giving detailed presentations to technical experts — and our competitors ’ , he added . |
| 15 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 16 | Among their little exercises in search of conclusions was that which involved asking 55 schoolchildren to list expressions meaning stupid person . |
| 17 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 18 | Following the threat of a national rail strike , Schimberni was obliged to suspend the proposal , which envisaged cutting 29,000 jobs , and to enter into discussions with the labour organizations . |
| 19 | In the meantime , the insurance industry has set up Pool Re , which began collecting premium income in January . |
| 20 | With OEM deals already struck at Hewlett-Packard Co and Silicon Graphics Inc , Natick , Massachusetts-based Atria Software Inc , developer of ClearCase , a Unix software configuration management system which began shipping last month , has raised $4.1m in a second round of venture funding : two of the firms , Marix Partners and Sigma Partners were original investors in Atria back in 1990 , they 're joined by Highland Capital Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures . |
| 21 | As a result of a concerted campaign , which included replacing nine area offices with four regional ones and which is still continuing , a clear six per cent was slashed off the 1991 cost base , bringing the cost ratio down from 19.2 per cent to 15.9 per cent in 1992 . |
| 22 | After Walesa 's election measures which included permitting private broadcasting stations to operate were taken to free the media from state control . |
| 23 | Ngawang Buchung was sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for activities in support of Tibetan independence , which included circulating Tibetan translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 24 | In 1990 , David Waddington , the then Home Secretary , presented proposals which included reducing standard sentence remission from two-thirds to half the initial sentence . |
| 25 | The report accused security forces of " a deliberate campaign of terror " which included shooting unarmed civilians . |
| 26 | Fortunately Ruth had some money from her father which covered buying this house |
| 27 | Loftus Library is looking for old photographs of the area to replace its original file of old photos which went missing some months ago . |
| 28 | The London committees concentrated their attention on school-leavers ( rather than all those in the 14–17 age-group ) , which meant involving voluntary agencies , emphasizing home visits , and consolidating the structure of the SCCs . |
| 29 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 30 | ‘ We added our own , ’ he said , ‘ which meant putting rubber tiles on . |