Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The manager proved to be very co-operative , and Thornton and Higgs were shown the machines which processed the dolphin meat into round slabs of meal , and a huge open vat of dolphin oil .
2 The other neon sign which surmounted the Parliament building , a huge red star , has recently been removed .
3 The race was won by Anthony Pooley , of Saint Edmund Pacers , in 1.49.35 , which equalled the course record .
4 Crossing the hospital courtyard which divided the maternity wing from the general wards and administration building , hearing over and over in his head the words they had gently but coldly told him , the announcement of his son 's death , leaving Lili asleep , carefully sedated , he had lifted his eyes and seen Rufus Fletcher .
5 For example , a substance which lowered the blood pressure was first discovered in 1934 in extracts of the prostate gland and in semen .
6 From the crucible there arose a great , green , fluorescent haze , which enveloped the lab bench and the teacher in an inappropriately lurid glow .
7 In 1985 he wrote the famous No Turning Back pamphlet and was a member of the Adam Smith Omega Project which drafted the privatisation blueprint for the second Thatcher government .
8 He was now made chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , an office which passed the duchy seal on 4 July , but which must have originated earlier since Gloucester was acting as steward early in June .
9 He was now made chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , an office which passed the duchy seal on 4 July , but which must have originated earlier since Gloucester was acting as steward early in June .
10 It was another sign of changing times when the British from 1967 began to embark upon more joint defence procurement programmes with the Europeans — notably the multinational collaborative effort which produced the Tornado fighter-bomber .
11 So , for example , a 44-year-old man maintained that sex taunts drove him to strangle his wife , which produced the headline SEX JIBE MADE ME A KILLER ( Daily Mirror ) .
12 He has stuck with yacht racing , first modifying Matador , then running a five-year test programme which produced the world championship-winning Matador .
13 It was this characteristic of metal which revealed the manufacturing history of a bronze stand of the Italian Late Bronze Age ( 1250–900 BC ) .
14 A funnel surmounted the structure , which housed the trolley mast , and music was played by the conductor on equipment housed in the upper cabins .
15 THE VICTORIAN red-brick building which housed the grammar school I went to still stands .
16 The Government Bill which became the Homicide Act 1957 restricted the death penalty to five categories of capital murder .
17 Educated at Llanwenog National School and at Llandysul County School , he won a scholarship in 1919 to Swansea Technical College , which became the University College of Swansea in 1920 , where he gained first-class honours ( 1923 ) and , in 1924 , an M.Sc.
18 In Coburn 's original script , which became the pilot episode , operation of the ship was clearly the sole preserve of the Doctor .
19 They built these houses onto the back of the park which became the golf course .
20 The picture which became the cover shot , of the Rollright Stones , was a particular race against time .
21 On Good Friday 1958 the first march set out for Aldermaston , the atomic research establishment in Berkshire , under the CND symbol , a black circle forked with a white ‘ drooping cross ’ , the semaphore symbols for N and D , which became the membership badge not only for the campaign but for a certain kind of non-conformity among young people .
22 The campaign for a national scheme of cash family allowances began in earnest with the formation of the Nineteen Seventeen Committee which became the Family Endowment Society a year later in 1918 .
23 It necessitated the rapid mobilization of auxiliaries to join a core of highly-trained troops kept constantly , at the ready — the princes ' military households , which became the linch pin of the system .
24 The Chief Constable had decided to dispense with his services because of a report made on the probationer constable which led the Chief Constable to believe that he was not fitted to be a member of the police force .
25 A report produced by the investigating commission and published on May 12 contained strong criticisms of the company responsible for erecting the stand , Sud-Tribune of the Bastia soccer club , which owned the football team , and of local government officials .
26 The company which sold the Abbey brewery to Charrington 's was the London and Burton Brewery Co of Stepney , which carried on brewing in Stepney until its own takeover by Watney 's in 1929 .
27 Basically , it was a good business deal for the Minister of Education who had shares in the Japanese company which sold the television equipment .
28 Deuce gazed at Harry in a way which made the boy cover himself .
29 The analysis will also perform the more mundane task of acquainting bankers and banking lawyers with fundamentals of ocean bill of lading law which made the ocean bill a merchantable document , including landmark statutes , decisions , conventions , and contractual clauses .
30 Karen instinctively got up to try and help , which made the punt wobble even more wildly .
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