Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By closing down Polish educational institutions ( notably the university at Vil'na and the lycée at Krzemieniec ) , by suppressing the Uniate Church ( in 1839 ) , by abolishing Magdeburg Law in Kiev ( in 1835 ) and the Lithuanian Statute throughout the region ( in 1840 ) , by promoting the publication of history books which argued that the western provinces had been Russian from time immemorial , by depriving many Poles of noble status , by promoting the interests of their Ukrainian and Belorussian serfs , and by insisting that local administration be conducted in Russian , he sought to make clear what he meant by allowing " Nationality " , narodnost' , to be attached to " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " in the celebrated circular of 1833 . |
| 2 | It has come after years of various cobbled-together options , with one of the louder voices being that of a City lobbying group , the City Group for Smaller Companies ( CISCO ) which argued that the proposed closure of the USM before a proper alternative was thought out showed a lack of concern , particularly for the problems faced by companies coming to the market for the first time . |
| 3 | Similarly , the announcement on 8 March 1962 of the composition of the National Directorate of the ORI , which revealed that the Communist old guard would have the upper hand , was countered three weeks later by the denunciation of Anibal Escalante for ’ sectarianism' , a measure which forced the Soviet Union to take a stand . |
| 4 | First reports of an agreement between the Fatah , the core group of the PLO , and the Islamic organization Hamas , originated from a leaflet distributed in the West Bank and Gaza on June 7 , which announced that the two groups had resolved to form a joint steering committee . |
| 5 | They follow an initiative by the Prince of Wales , through Business in the Community , which found that the less capital a company needed to raise , the harder it was to do so on commercial terms . |
| 6 | Our findings agree with those of the Honolulu Heart Study which found that the inverse relation between serum cholesterol values and colon cancer was independent of the pathological stage of the carcinoma . |
| 7 | In May 1990 the UNDP published its first Human Development Report , which proposed that the traditional macroeconomic yardsticks , favoured by the World Bank and other international financial institutions , should be replaced by a new indicator , the " Human Development Index " ( HDI ) , which would take into account life expectancy , degree of literacy and individual purchasing power , since traditional indicators were often distorted by exchange rate fluctuations . |
| 8 | There was the usual battery of clicks and coughs which signalled that the internal communications system of the Cathedral was girding its loins for action . |
| 9 | Viktor Gerashchenko , chairman of USSR Gosbank ( the Soviet central bank ) , called upon the EBRD to lift its restrictions on Soviet borrowing , which stipulated that the total volume of Soviet credits could not exceed its paid-in capital in the first three years . |
| 10 | The Palestinians eventually boycotted the meeting in protest at the US and Russian decision to abide by the so-called " Madrid formula " which stipulated that the Palestinian delegation would include no PLO members , no East Jerusalem Palestinians and no Palestinians from the diaspora outside the occupied territories . |
| 11 | This move was necessitated by the country 's Constitution — which stipulated that the current agreement should be allowed to expire in 1991 — and Manglapus did not rule out the possibility of negotiating a new bases treaty . |
| 12 | REMEMBER the man who made a fortune out of a book which claimed that the Old Testament was really the story of how extra-terrestrials landed on earth or , to put it plainly , that Elijah 's still small voice was a wee green man speaking in his ear ? |
| 13 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on April 19 which claimed that the Chinese authorities had systematically used prison labour — including political prisoners — to produce cheap goods targeted for export to the United States , Japan and Germany . |
| 14 | Last year , the Authority was severely criticised by a Commons Energy Select Committee report which claimed that the nuclear industry had spent an inordinate amount of money on publicising itself . |
| 15 | Recalling Resolution 44/10 of its previous session [ see p. 37434 ] , the Assembly unanimously adopted on Nov. 20 Resolution 45/15 , which stated that the electoral process in Nicaragua [ see pp. 37236-37 ] had been " orderly , free and fair " . |
| 16 | The SDPJ claimed that the bill , like its predecessor , was an attempt to nullify Article 9 of Japan 's Constitution which stated that the Japanese people " forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes " . |
| 17 | The Federal Electoral Institute released in early September the final results which corrected preliminary estimates of the Aug. 18 mid-term congressional elections but which confirmed that the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) had won a huge majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress [ see p. 38385 for details of other simultaneous elections ] . |
| 18 | These findings are in line with those of an earlier study for England and Wales which showed that the mean number of days professionals stayed in hospital was about two-thirds that of unskilled workers who also had higher admission rates ( see Table 3.11 ) . |
| 19 | Romer J. relied on William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Slater v. Burnley Corporation , 59 L.T. 636 , in reaching his decision , and he also referred [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , to the ‘ principle of duress colore officii ’ in a manner which showed that the necessary duress required something more than a simple demand by an official . |
| 20 | The study provides new evidence to support the conclusions of a 1984 report , covering a twenty-year period from 1963-83 , which showed that the higher incidence of disease was unlikely to be due to chance . |
| 21 | The result had been widely predicted by opinion polls which showed that the Labour Party ( in government since 1984 ) had lost the confidence of the electorate . |
| 22 | Seventy Mothers ' Clubs distributed 2,000 questionnaires , which showed that the average worker in that part of São Paulo earned one and a half minimum salaries , which was not sufficient to cover costs of food , rent , mortgage of land payments , clothing , transport , medicine , school equipment , electricity and water for their families . |
| 23 | The government 's Green Paper on housing provided data which showed that the average amount of subsidy received by all local authority tenants , including rent rebates , was £69 in 1972–3 and £214 in 1975–6 ; income tax relief per mortgage was £76 and £174 respectively . |
| 24 | Mining operations for oil-shale and coal had been providing much new information which showed that the original maps of Central Scotland were inaccurate in places . |
| 25 | Although the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry decided not to refer the bid for Pilkington to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , BTR abandoned its attempt to takeover the company , claiming that this had been motivated , not by adverse public reaction and the political storm created , but by Pilkington 's better than expected profits forecast , which indicated that the likely price required to capture the company would be greater than BTR was willing to pay . |
| 26 | As she was shown to her seat , she noted that trailers were being shown , which indicated that the last , and principal film had not yet started . |
| 27 | Baldwin 's National government had gone to the electorate in November 1935 against the backcloth of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia , which raised public concern , and a Peace Ballot carried out by the League of Nations Union which indicated that the British public wanted peace and disarmament but was prepared to contemplate military sanctions against aggressor nations . |
| 28 | Government sources in Dublin indicated that the ‘ optimistic signals ’ mentioned by Mr Reynolds had come through ‘ diplomatic contacts ’ which indicated that the British side felt there was ‘ room for movement ’ . |
| 29 | Such claims were contradicted by research which indicated that the true level might be about 70 per thousand . |
| 30 | The musketry was not the huge eruptions of platoon fire , but rather the smaller sporadic snapping of skirmishers which betrayed that the French Voltigeurs were closing on the Dutch light troops , but both sets of skirmishers were well hidden from the Prince and his staff by the tall crops . |