Example sentences of "of [Wh det] had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had full view of the stage and of the three female impersonators , kicking up their legs in a dance , the rhythm of which had gone a little awry . |
| 2 | Virgin had also bought a London cinema , the Scala , specialising in ‘ art house ’ films ; and a video-editing suite , called Off Line — both of which had become the particular interest of Nik Powell . |
| 3 | Efforts continued to establish a harmonization of European accounting practices , in accordance with the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives ( 1978 and 1983 respectively ) , the first of which had created the Contact Committee of officials , the standards body which had originated most of the current proposals ( but which was still not recognized by many EC members ) , while the second had included measures to standardize the presentation of consolidated accounts within the EC ( see p. 36154 for earlier developments ) . |
| 4 | It was a potentially dangerous operation involving 15 armed police officers , 2 of which had tracked the car in the force helicopter . |
| 5 | BP , ICL , IBM , Volvo , British Gas in Wales , British Telecom in the South-west , and a clutch of local authorities , many of which had led the way , had all shown it could be done , with Ford announcing its partial ban recently . |
| 6 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 7 | The Nairobi weekly publication Development Agenda was banned in August 1989 after publishing only two issues , one of which had examined the politics of the Western province and the career of Livestock Development Minister Elijah W. Mwangale . |
| 8 | When the United Kingdom did eventually join , therefore , she joined a well-established existing organisation , the original six members of which had developed an understanding and evolved an attitude towards the Community which the United Kingdom has not come easily to share . |
| 9 | In some Shanghai factories , once a ‘ hotbed ’ of radicalism , there were demands for independent trade unions along the lines of Solidarity in Poland , news of which had reached the Chinese people . |
| 10 | Believing that death was at hand he confirmed the territorial dispositions made at Montmirail and asked to be buried at the monastery of Grandmont in the Limousin , one of the monks of which had played an important part in the peace negotiations . |
| 11 | A general election held in Bangladesh on Feb. 27 was dominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) and the Awami League , both of which had boycotted the previous elections held in March 1988 [ see pp. 35835-36 ] . |
| 12 | It used to be the custom that the issue of the writ should be moved by chief whip of the party in the House of Commons a member of which had held the seat prior to its vacation , but this practice was occasionally the subject of abuse by the moving party being reluctant , by reason of its unpopularity in the country and consequent fear of being humiliated in a poll , Constituents in one instance were left unrepresented for over nine months . |
| 13 | Candarli Halil Pasa was one of a family of statesmen , four members of which had held the office of Grand Vezir for much of the century preceding the accession of Mehmed II ; and these men had also held , prior to their appointments as vezir , the offices of kadi and kazasker . |
| 14 | The meeting was also attended by leaders of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) , Jordanian supporters of which had established the Jordanian People 's Democratic Party ( JPDP ) in July 1989 . |
| 15 | The independence of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay from Spain was finally recognized in 1828 by Argentina and Brazil , both of which had claimed the territory . |
| 16 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 17 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 18 | The kinship systems of Australian aborigines , Pacific islanders and Iroquois Indians , which the ancestors of modern social anthropology like Lewis Morgan(1818–81) now began to study seriously — though the subject was still primarily studied in the library rather than in the field — were seen as ‘ survivals ’ of earlier stages in the evolution of what had become the nineteenth-century family . |
| 19 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 20 | Both newspapers gave fairly accurate accounts of what had happened the night before last . |
| 21 | She awoke with her body lazily relaxed , only slight soreness to remind her of what had happened the previous night . |