Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before clearing out my desk at the Times-Herald I had a quiet word with Fred Workman who agreed to accept free-lance stories from me . |
| 2 | Orlov and others engineered factional strife in the Ministry of State Properties which in April 1857 led to the appointment as minister of M. N. Murav'ev , a man who believed that " the question [ of emancipation ] had been dreamed up by … academics , theoreticians , [ and ] sons of priests ' and who planned to treat state-owned peasants as harshly as serfs . |
| 3 | The main opponents in the land-use battles were the Allegheny Community College and a local developer who planned to build subsidised apartments with 25 per cent reserved for handicapped residents . |
| 4 | He loved clubs and wardrooms with the pre-dinner drinks , the discreet signing of chitties , the smiling elderly waiters ( from a class almost extinct now , men who lived to serve other men ) . |
| 5 | Until very recently it was conspicuous that the secretariats and standards committees were dominated by Germans who fought to have German standards , which are often the strictest in the world , adopted as definitive EC standards . |
| 6 | Collective security necessarily imposed obligations on all nation states , powerful and weak alike , to respect each other 's separate identity and autonomy , and to sanction any member who failed to respect such obligations . |
| 7 | If these non-compliant patients who failed to tolerate four weeks of elemental feeding are taken into account , then just 45% ( 10 of 22 ) patients originally randomised to receive four weeks of elemental diet achieved complete remission on diet alone . |
| 8 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 9 | But those scientists who sought to reconstruct these links could do so without worrying very much about how populations of individual animals adapted to the challenges posed by an ever-changing environment . |
| 10 | The author and the Editor would like to thank the scientists who helped keep these tales within the bounds of fact : entomologist Dr John Maunder and parasitologist Dr Ian Burgess , both of the University of Cambridge . |
| 11 | A Leaders ' Training class was attended by Edith Harlow and Hermine Burg who helped to keep some classes going to LONDON and Dagenham throughout and after the war , while Molly was engaged on full time war work . |
| 12 | Harvey said ‘ Hello ’ four times , then suddenly he was talking to a bald-headed man who seemed to have four overcoats on at once . |
| 13 | Something like resentment was beginning to swell in Cardiff ; a resentment that he was now doing as he was told by these newcomers — these newcomers who seemed to have more answers than he did for whatever in hell was going on here . |
| 14 | For once , it was the losing side who seemed to have fewer reservations about the performance of the referee . |
| 15 | He thus remained an enigma , a man who could not be known as most politicians were known and who seemed to shun such contacts . |
| 16 | Her husband David was knocked from his bike and killed just ten days before Christmas last year by a man who 'd drunk three times the legal limit . |
| 17 | You know who 's responsible for this , just as you knew who 'd sent those men , and wrecked your car last night . |
| 18 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 19 | So was Mrs Keble , who 'd taken eight pounds odd on the tombola . |
| 20 | But from people who 'd brought that things to talk about . |
| 21 | He looked , Caroline thought , like a host taking leave of a guest who 'd resisted all efforts to call it an evening . |
| 22 | In IRC v Plummer [ 1979 ] STC 793 , a " Reverse Annuity Scheme " was entered into under which a charity paid money to the taxpayer who covenanted to make annual payments to the charity for the period of five years or during the remainder of the life of the taxpayer whichever be the shorter . |
| 23 | He moved a step nearing the smaller of the two men , who happened to have two cameras slung around his neck . |
| 24 | In 1836 grafts of both Cox 's new apple trees were given to E. Small and Son , nurserymen of Colnbrook , who began to sell young trees locally four years later . |
| 25 | Eventually , in the middle of the afternoon , Golding arrived with his superior , Detective Superintendent Miller , and a squad of technicians , who began making intricate modifications to the telephone in order to monitor incoming calls . |
| 26 | It was you who started making veiled references to my love-life . |
| 27 | I was the awkward one who kept asking difficult questions , such as , Why is n't Leo in the Forces ? and What war work do Helen and Dora do ? |
| 28 | A BADLY decomposed body found in the Sidlaw Hills near Dundee at the weekend is that of Nealle Wilson , a mentally handicapped man who went missing two years ago , police revealed yesterday . |
| 29 | Police have been continuing the search for the body of a woman who went missing twenty years ago . |
| 30 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |