Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 2 | As herds of humans dressed as cows ( at least , that 's what our eyes told us ) wander up and down Bleecker Street , we slump and watch The Shams , three women dressed as men , play an acoustic set which publicised their sexual fantasies . |
| 3 | Dimity ran the house , it appeared , and it was her slender arms that bore in the coal scuttles , the heavy shopping baskets and the laden trays , while Ella 's powerful hands designed wood blocks , mixed paint and stamped the lengths of materials which draped their little cottage . |
| 4 | A notarial instrument of April 1288 recorded the agreement specifying the position of the common wall which divided their respective quarters . |
| 5 | This alluded to contemporary sartorial developments in America , where Mrs Amelia Bloomer had pioneered somewhat daring cycling costumes for ladies which revealed their lower limbs . |
| 6 | In pursuit of these aims the president and his staff proposed bold innovations in economic policy , the introduction of which became their first priority . |
| 7 | In part at least , the conditions which frustrated their fuller implication also provided the justification for renewed efforts to improve social conditions . |
| 8 | But The Smiths now found that success tends to complicate situations which made their initial stance of well meant integrity and the desire to do things differently ( ‘ We do n't wish to become pop stars ’ ) a virtual impossibility . |
| 9 | He also conducted extensive tests on his engines , which demonstrated their high efficiency and gained him a reputation as a highly scientific engineer . |
| 10 | The constituent groups of the PLO , Fatah , PFLP , DFLP and the Communist Party , all had their cadres in the territories which maintained their outward anonymity to avoid arrest . |
| 11 | Time spent at Columbia University in New York in 1928 made a considerable impact on his teaching philosophy — there he became aware , during the sports training sessions , of the relationship between body and ball and the possibilities of its use in movement training ; he also deplored the artificial hand and arm movements made by many students , which disturbed their natural expression and ended up in pose . |
| 12 | Trades unions , which regarded their principal objective as being to protect the interests of their employed members ( insiders ) , were not particularly moved — public rhetoric apart — by the plight of outsiders . |
| 13 | Since then , Labour has never made a generous offer of co-operation with other Scottish groups or parties which recognised their differing views on home rule or democracy . |
| 14 | The majority , however , were adamantly opposed to anything which weakened their absolute control over their crews and were prepared to take any action which would ensure that this was upheld , the most effective method being the recruitment of non-union crews which were prepared to sail at lower rates and under worse conditions than union men . |
| 15 | The only specific suggestion of their pro-Nazi sympathies was in the presence of a large radiogram which filled their own rooms , and — more irritatingly — those of their neighbours , with the music of Wagner . |
| 16 | In 1875 North London Collegiate School and its lower school ( Camden School , opened in 1871 ) were successful in gaining endowments which secured their financial future , though the struggle for funding was trying and uphill work . |
| 17 | Jackson ( 1973 : 145 ) shows that these interests were hidden by the demands of style , as in the semi-detached properties which employed a basic frame but added a spurious individuality on the façade in order to make the house more attractive to prospective buyers , or the modernist-style buildings , which proclaimed their scientific nature to the degree that elements of the internal construction which would not normally have been visible were externalized onto the façade to display a commitment to the appropriation of new technologies . |
| 18 | Major changes were afoot which affected their respective bosses . |
| 19 | At any moment the Roman army could arrive at the narrow strait which separated their holy island from the mainland of north Wales , and they had no protection , except the super-natural powers they felt they could command . |
| 20 | Those administrations faced biennial balance-of-payments crises of great severity which shaped their whole approach to economic policy-making . |
| 21 | But their bid has been knocked back by the Government which claimed their independent valuation was only about half the real value . |
| 22 | Foreign policy was , then , defined by the military in terms which served their own interests ; namely , the maintenance of the role and size of the armed forces in society . |
| 23 | When the invention of the printing press first allowed mass production of political pamphlets and newsletters , British governments treated them as ‘ seditious libels ’ which challenged their sovereign authority and fomented public disorder . |
| 24 | Despite their spiritual office , medieval popes were totally involved in secular politics , holding court in costume and pontifical regalia which expressed their great power . |
| 25 | No doubt Ferguson wants his team to make a fight of it , though presumably on more civilised lines than the tunnel punch-up which followed their last match here . |
| 26 | So addicted were they to this practice , which relieved their frugal existence by exporting their products to the more populous dales , that they earned a reputation as ‘ the terrible knitters of Dent ’ : terrible not because their handiwork was slipshod but because of their complete dedication to the craft . |
| 27 | Within a year Horne and Peach settled the issue in Lapworth 's favour and went on to demonstrate great horizontal displacements of rock along the Moine Thrust , a discovery which established their international reputation . |
| 28 | This was denied by the Transkei authorities , which established their own inquiry . |
| 29 | It was inevitable that this strength , particularly when confronted by such weakness , generated the belief in both countries that they could transact a peace settlement which safeguarded their respective concerns . |
| 30 | Still the mannequins were appearing , their elongated clothes-horse frames moving with a grace which belied their tight-drawn nerves , still the bursts of applause rang out to drown the persistent clicking of the cameras , but Harriet leaned back against her pillar almost oblivious to them . |