Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , it has been pointed out that there was no net increase in total real wealth between 1913 and 1951 , and in this context the world wars are cast as the harpies which devoured the accumulated efforts of previous generations . |
| 2 | The existing management was organised around establishments , each with its own board of management , its own financial system , its own marketing and commercial organisation , its safety infrastructure , administration and so on , but with business interests which overlapped the other establishments . |
| 3 | But this was an empirical observation which concerned the economic circumstances of a particular country at a particular period of time : it had nothing whatever to do with his general theory of employment . |
| 4 | Since the working class is the largest group and the group which concerned the educational reformers of 1944 , it is the natural choice of a base for the class variable . |
| 5 | While the interests which ruled the foreign policies of European states might differ , the machinery which put them into effect did not . |
| 6 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 7 | By mid-1991 Denmark was nearing agreement with Sweden on a long-standing plan to bridge the Öresund straits which divided the two countries [ see p. 38402 ] . |
| 8 | Since the Hungarians had forced him to accept the famous ‘ Compromise ’ of June 1867 which divided the Austrian dominions , Franz-Joseph 's field of action in foreign policy was limited by pressures from the Hungarian half of the Empire . |
| 9 | The decision was held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on 20 November and the Baltic republics came in for severe criticism from other delegates at the Supreme Soviet session on 1 December which passed the constitutional amendments into law . |
| 10 | It was the argicultural parishes which produced the smallest percentages . |
| 11 | The second HEAO was the Einstein Observatory , which produced the first pictures of astronomical objects at X-ray wavelengths . |
| 12 | Most of the work on the land was done by the villa slaves under the eagle eye of the owner , and it was the way he organised his labourers which produced the better results . |
| 13 | The proper approach was to ascertain what were the operations which produced the relevant profits , and where those operations took place . |
| 14 | The proper approach is to ascertain what were the operations which produced the relevant profits and where those operations took place . |
| 15 | During the formative years of broadcasting it was cinema which produced the predominant images of lesbians and gay men . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , in North America , the orogeny which produced the Appalachian structures probably did not reach its climax until the end of the Permian . |
| 17 | The company has also signed with special effects company Industrial Light & Magic Inc , which produced the award-winning effects in Death Becomes Her and the liquid Cyborg in Terminator 2 . |
| 18 | Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century . |
| 19 | After all , they were the women who bought and devoured a novel which revealed the unsatisfied desires seething beneath American small-town togetherness — Peyton Place , which earned Grace Metalious $56,000 a year in royalties . |
| 20 | Kings who showed independence risked the fate of Pleistoanax , exiled in 446 — most unfairly , because Sparta ratified his provisional settlement with Athens , which became the Thirty Years Peace ( p. 46 ) . |
| 21 | Any attempt to prove that they were misled by fraud or otherwise would necessarily involve an inquiry into the manner in which they had performed their functions in dealing with the Bill which became the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 22 | He attributed the actual cohesive organising role to the vanguard of the working class ( read Communist Party ) which led the various strata of that class with their differing levels of consciousness . |
| 23 | In some cases customers would demand more Champagne than woollens which led the sharpest businessmen to quickly diversify into this lucrative new commerce . |
| 24 | The sentence should have read it : ‘ It proved possible to maintain a limited number of local foster placements which would not have met the central standards of a specialist fostering team , but which met the temporary needs of certain local children more appropriately . ’ |
| 25 | As a cricketer he deserves to be remembered for his 6 for 110 which levelled the 1936–37 Ashes series at Adelaide , or specifically the ball with which he bowled Hammond in that crucial innings . |
| 26 | This period therefore saw the culmination of tendencies already visible in previous generations which made the diplomatic services of Europe more technically efficient than ever before . |
| 27 | The steering committee which made the late changes to the report consisted of representatives from the European Commission , the lead additives companies Associated octel , Ethyl and SIAC , the International Lead and Zinc Research organisation , Agip Petrol and the United States ' Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 28 | A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so . |
| 29 | He maintained that an interest in chemistry was inborn in Germans , who also possessed a ‘ cold-blooded spirit of research , slow but accurate reflection and unremitting patience ’ , which made the best chemists . |
| 30 | There was therefore good reason for using related but innocuous species and accepting the chance of missing key properties which made the virulent organisms dangerous . |