Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | An archbishop who failed to challenge that kind of economic fundamentalism would virtually have abandoned the social hope of the Christian Church . |
| 3 | If the aeroplane broke up in the air or the engine fell apart then the designers could be at fault ; if navigation aids were not working properly a radio engineer could be responsible , or even the Director of Civil Aviation who failed to provide enough money for the maintenance of the aids . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In his preface to the catalogue , Apollinaire wrote : ‘ The new painters who made manifest this year , at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants of Paris , their artistic ideals , accept the name of Cubists which has been given to them . |
| 6 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 7 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 10 | Before I hand over to Dave to tell his side of the story , I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dave , Richard , Liz and all the JM staff at sites around the country who helped to organise this event which has raised so much for our Charity of the Year . |
| 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 | Back in England , BA union officials who tried to get more information about who was on board found computer records of the passenger list had disappeared . |
| 13 | This was an important mission , yet they had sent him a minor police official who seemed to have little standing or influence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 16 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 17 | For once , it was the losing side who seemed to have fewer reservations about the performance of the referee . |
| 18 | In Rosemary 's book , ‘ lecherous , cretinous , oversexed reptile ’ was too polite a term for a man who seemed to think any female working for his father was fair game . |
| 19 | He thus remained an enigma , a man who could not be known as most politicians were known and who seemed to shun such contacts . |
| 20 | ‘ We could all be dead in six months , ’ she replied , shaking her head with an air of someone who 'd heard those sort of stories before . |
| 21 | and then for there 's this thing treating people who 'd ruined this guy 's marriage |
| 22 | You know who 's responsible for this , just as you knew who 'd sent those men , and wrecked your car last night . |
| 23 | The day after we all met you she assured me she 'd say nothing damaging and said she 'd convinced Merlyn who 'd arranged another meeting on the boat . |
| 24 | Who 'd found each other ; asleep in a ditch ; full-grown |
| 25 | But from people who 'd brought that things to talk about . |
| 26 | He looked , Caroline thought , like a host taking leave of a guest who 'd resisted all efforts to call it an evening . |
| 27 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
| 28 | And I mean recently I came across somebody who 'd got some part holdings in diamonds , and of course the diamond market 's gone into rapid decline because of the er is it Namibian diamonds , and , and the Russians er breaking up the De Beer market . |
| 29 | Those who happened to eat that meal died . |
| 30 | As for the rest of the staff , I will miss each one of the people who served to get this magazine on its feet . |