Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | Significantly , the same Parliament which passed the 1947 Agriculture Act also brought into being the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act , thus creating the planning system which , to this day , regulates all aspects of British life except agriculture and forestry , which remain exempt . |
| 4 | The nearest approach , however , to the inquiry which produced the Hundred Rolls was a letter of Edward , as lord of Aquitaine for his father , in November 1259 , whereby his seneschal was required to ‘ certify to us … all rights , liberties , and other matters belonging to our lordship , in cities , towns and vills , as elsewhere in our province [ districtu ] of Gascony ’ . |
| 5 | A final round of talks was scheduled to take place in China between all the Cambodian factions and France and Indonesia ( co-sponsors of the Paris conference which produced the 1991 peace agreement ) . |
| 6 | It is potentially worrying that the climate of evasion which produced the 1991 undercount may persist and affect the reliability of future Censuses also . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Commerce , not liberty , is the motive ’ , said The Times , going on to call the Bill , which became the 1984 Act , meagre and minimalist . |
| 9 | Donald Mackay , a former junior minister at the Scottish Office , who was secretary of the Wheatley Commission which planned the 1975 council reforms , said it was far too early to undertake another reorganisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A fall in oil prices lowers all energy prices and encourages economic growth but if it also re-establishes the dependence which made the two oil shocks so effective in curtailing growth , then nothing useful has been achieved . |
| 12 | The split in the ruling National Salvation Front ( NSF ) of March 1992 was formalized when the NSF-22 December group ( supporting President Ion Iliescu ) held its founding conference on April 7 , electing as its leadership a 25-strong provisional national council and adopting a programme which described the NSF-22 December as a " social-democratic " party . |
| 13 | I have seen one production which used the 1603 quarto version , one which used the uncut Folio text , but the majority were ‘ constructed ’ texts , omitting different passages and scenes from what is a very long play . |
| 14 | He has been at the head of many investigations , one major case being the doping of Bravefoot and Norwich , which disfigured the 1990 St Leger meeting at Doncaster . |
| 15 | John Young 's was illustrated in The Building News on 4th September , 1857 , and Robert Kerr 's ‘ picturesque Renaissance ’ scheme , as he called it , which united the two offices in a magnificent north-facing block , was reviewed and illustrated in The Builder on 26th September . |
| 16 | He was active not only as an architect , designing a further series of public buildings , stucco-faced terraces in the London manner , and attractive suburban villas , but also as a town planner , responsible for the creation of Union Street , a bold stroke of planning which united the three towns . |
| 17 | I just wanted to s erm congratulate er whoever it was and put together the curriculum er programme which secured the three quarters of a million pound for all those which will I , I think I can understand extremely competitive and I would like to erm give credit to there because that will be enormously for the business which will give proper jobs er which is er very useful to the environment and , and , and really just to record erm that , that particular er success . |
| 18 | In the absence of any inter-party consensus on who should fill the office of President , no candidate secured a sufficient majority in 15 rounds of voting between May 13 and May 23 in the 1,014-member electoral college which comprised the 630 deputies , the 315 elected senators , the 11 life senators and 58 delegates from regional councils . |
| 19 | As the rivalry with England grew in the late thirteenth century , so the sea , which separated the two countries , took on added importance . |
| 20 | The treaty arranged between Edward III and John II had adopted a mainly feudal approach to the dispute which separated the two kings and their people ; it had decided who held what , and how . |
| 21 | Its front windows stared along the chestnut avenue which joined the two roads . |
| 22 | Visitors were able to see the versatility of design and product range by a display which portrayed the four themes of shipping , hotel and leisure , pubs and commercial interiors . |
| 23 | He said he had taken Kurlovich to Barcelona aware of the positive test and fearful disclosure might bring on a dope scandal similar to the Bulgarian one which shook the 1988 Games . |
| 24 | In 1962 the BBC ‘ Gallery ’ programme discussed homosexuality , though with a very male bias , and focused on the debates which informed the 1967 Wolfenden Report . |
| 25 | The catering department at the Dome Leisure Centre , Doncaster , refitted its kitchens a few years ago and , with its suppliers ' advice , chose equipment which anticipated the five degree temperature requirements . |
| 26 | However , Credit Suisse , host to a meeting in Zurich on Monday of the institutions which arranged the 11 issues , said yesterday they had agreed to ‘ co-ordinate their efforts for the benefit of bondholders ’ . |
| 27 | Protesters in Timisoara , the city which began the 1989 revolution , claimed that the full truth about those events had not been told . |
| 28 | From the expressions on the faces of his audience , which included the two Pargeter girls , it was impossible to tell whether they were listening to him or not . |
| 29 | As his appointment preceded the 1932 Adult Education Regulations , Lee was not an Article 11 tutor but represented the new regional policy for provision developing at the Cambridge Board , which included the 1930 appointment of Harold Shearman as its tutor in Bedfordshire , and W. P. Baker in Cambridgeshire the following year . |
| 30 | Derby 's Government in the Commons was led by the Leader of the House and Chancellor of the Exchequer , Benjamin Disraeli , who as a member of the Select Committee which examined the 1855 Act and Hall 's Committee of 1856 was well aware of the need for a new Foreign Office . |