Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a neat idea , and one which placed it half way between the rigid discipline of the Trotskyites and the hopeless chaos of the Anarchists ( or Libertarians , as they preferred to call themselves ) on the ultra-left spectrum . |
| 2 | Simeon 's revolt , like the one which preceded it sixty-six years before , was ruthlessly suppressed , but not before the Holy Land had once again been ravaged . |
| 3 | While the report was acknowledging considerable dieback , the press release which accompanied it three days before Christmas ( a traditional moment for government departments to ‘ bury ’ embarrassing statistics ) spoke only of ‘ no sign … of the forest decline which is of such great concern in central Europe ’ . |
| 4 | For another generation , this Covenant was to be held up as a model of political excellence within the Middle East , especially by the Western powers which gave it such approval but which did not have to suffer its consequences . |
| 5 | The National Front 's vote increased from 10.4 per cent to 15.7 per cent , which gave it second place behind the candidate of the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) . |
| 6 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
| 7 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 8 | Shortly after the sack , Stamford was granted its great Charter of Incorporation by the newly acclaimed Yorkist king Edward IV , which gave it considerable rewards for its loyalty ( an earlier charter of 972 , which was a post-conquest forgery , and only referred to the mint at Stamford , was still celebrated in 1972 ) . |
| 9 | As the material becomes hotter , it regains the capacity to flow which characterised it molten state at the time of its installation . |
| 10 | What made it ten times worse , you see , was that Lavinia had strongly resisted Isabel 's coming in the first place . |