Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 27 seats reserved for Fijian nationals of Indian descent , 14 were won by the National Federation Party ( NFP ) and 13 by the Fiji Labour Party ( FLP — which had also unsuccessfully fielded a number of candidates for Fijian seats ) . |
| 2 | And had perhaps Grace Bird 's goddammit of irritation been directed at her and not at the ball of beige knitting wool which had just then rolled off the shelf of the dressing-table ? |
| 3 | She struggled up , wiping a lump of mud from her forehead , and gazed after the car , which had not even slowed down . |
| 4 | The ‘ piecemeal ’ entry of the former colleges of education and some other colleges which had not previously secured polytechnic status was not quite along lines that the Robbins Committee had proposed , but the picture of higher education that had been developing from the early 1960s was now broader and more complex . |
| 5 | First , cases were occurring in which young people between 16 and 21 ( the then age of majority ) were living away from home and wished and needed urgent medical treatment which had not yet reached the emergency stage . |
| 6 | This was to be pursued in three phases , starting with ( i ) the co-ordination of monetary policies among the member states , to be initiated by the formation of a council of central bank governors and aimed at achieving desirable fiscal limits and the liberalization of wages , prices , trade , financial and commercial policies ; this was to be followed by ( ii ) the requirement that those countries which had not yet achieved macro-economic stability maintain parities within an agreed band ; there would finally take place ( iii ) the creation of a Caribbean monetary authority with powers to issue a single currency . |
| 7 | With the passing of the 1910 Choice of Employment Act , the education committee decided to exercise its powers and petition for the closing of the JAC ( which had not yet begun its work ) so that it could open what was termed a Juvenile Employment Bureau and Care Committee System . |
| 8 | The train was a kind of purgatory , a waiting time , between the known and completed past and the unguessable future which had not yet begun . |
| 9 | They were pure ‘ gimmick ’ — a much-used Fifties word which had not yet become a term of abuse . |
| 10 | At a time when fashion , like much British culture , reflected predominantly middle-class values , and to escape these students were tapering their trousers and doing everything they could to make dull clothes more interesting , Minton 's stylish Bohemianism was much admired : he pioneered a taste for donkey jackets and had a flair for combining well-cut cast-offs and bow ties with eccentric items bought from Carnaby Street which had not yet become fashionable . |
| 11 | Purley depôt was put into use as a store for war damaged cars , plus a few cars in running order , which had not yet received windscreens to the driver 's platforms . |
| 12 | In this case it was probably a matter of a commercial bourgeoisie , itself still rising in importance , which had not yet found its styles in art . |
| 13 | A few days previously I had paid a quick visit to Bourn , which had not yet closed down , to say goodbye to those of my acquaintances who were still there , and to find out what had happened to Rosemary . |
| 14 | The " literature " to which Playfair refers is , of course , classics rather than English literature ( which had not yet come to be seen as an adequate instrument of " culture " ) . |
| 15 | Mr Ayre said a national report earlier in the week showed grant maintained schools were faring better than their counterparts which had not yet opted out . |
| 16 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 17 | The movement owed its existence in part to an amalgam of anxieties specific to the London crisis of the 1860s , in particular to what Gareth Stedman Jones has called ‘ The Deformation of the Gift ’ , that is , the emergence of a gulf between the classes which had not only destroyed the ‘ gift relationship ’ involving elements of ‘ prestige , subordination and obligation ’ , but was also fundamentally responsible for the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor . |
| 18 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 19 | Some boys wore boots which had not only had previous owners and were not well fitting but also had soles and heels covered with metal studs . |
| 20 | Finally I ventured to ask her to come and dine with me in the Pláka , which had not then become a pandemonium . |
| 21 | He had met her while staying with his Burne-Jones cousins at Rottingdean , a Sussex coastal village which had not then become a suburb of Brighton . |
| 22 | He also made sure that all players were kept informed of decisions about team selection , which had not always happened before . |
| 23 | It was quite clear in 1973 that the new advice scheme was intended to bring into solicitors ' offices problems of a kind which had not hitherto surfaced . |
| 24 | On March 10 Roman attributed the NSF losses to the economic difficulties in the cities , which had thus far borne the brunt of economic restructuring , and to the divisions within the party . |
| 25 | However , we soon stopped smiling when it started to rain and the wind got up ; the sealant , which had n't yet hardened , started to dilute , and one by one the secondary glazing panels were blown in. the wind started to blow bubbles in the gooey sealant , which then floated around the room , only to burst and leave a sticky mess on the carpets and furniture . |
| 26 | It was low with an agreeable trace of huskiness and with a hint of more power than the frail body would suggest ; not an educated voice but one on which education had imposed a discipline which had n't quite obliterated the provincial , probably East Anglian , accent of childhood . |
| 27 | At the same time were born new heroes and demigods ; the Hollywood dream factory , which had already indelibly stamped the character of both North America and Great Britain by the 1940s , began to spin its web of enticement over the whole of popular culture . |
| 28 | On Sept. 6 the three Baltic Foreign Ministers , A. Saudargas ( Lithuania ) , Janis Jurkans ( Latvia ) and Lennart Merri ( Estonia ) , went to Brussels to present a request for associate membership of the European Communities ( EC ) , which had already formally stated its recognition of them as independent states . |
| 29 | So much so , that the local unit , which had previously only accepted referrals from GPs , sent out letters to a variety of agencies , such as the probation service and the social services , asking for referrals from them . |
| 30 | Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’ |