Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film in progress when I arrived showed a football match between a team of nuns and a team of soldiers , and every time the referee blew his whistle for a penalty ( which was every few seconds ) the player concerned had to lose a garment . |
| 2 | She was quiet as they made their way to the beach , which was every bit as packed as she had known it would be . |
| 3 | She brought her husband to help but all he could offer was a shrug which was no comfort at all . |
| 4 | Happily , these include some of the most desperate cases , like Borringdon , a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice , but today is a comfortable country house hotel . |
| 5 | She had already had one nervous breakdown , which was no doubt a great nuisance to everybody , and now she was heading for something worse : agoraphobia . |
| 6 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 7 | Which was no doubt why it was important not just to the artists in this show , but also to others like Paul Nash , John Piper and Henry Moore . |
| 8 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 9 | To do this he put forward in his submission a detailed plan for the employment of his unit in the offensive being planned by Auchinleck to take place in November , which was no secret in Cairo at the time . |
| 10 | The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia , which was no bad thing . |
| 11 | I did all the cleaning , cooking and kept his books in order , which was no mean feat because he had a lot of clients call and all the money passed through my hands . ’ |
| 12 | In The Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith showed how even though each individual pursued his own self-interest , nevertheless through the invisible hand he was led ‘ to promote an end which was no part in his intentions ’ . |
| 13 | After the finals it was time to pick the redcurrants and raspberries , which was no one 's favourite job , but the consolation of the thought of summer puddings , not just in summer but all the year round , goaded us on , because if there exists a more ambrosial delight I do n't know of it . |
| 14 | Cameras were hurriedly produced , which was no easy matter as we were squeezed in a very small boat , and everyone was in everyone else 's way as we tried to take photographs . |
| 15 | But a third layer was even more removed from the formal standards , the popular morality of the vast majority , which was no less strict for being only loosely Christian in a formal sense . |
| 16 | But his influence was in sharp decline , which was no doubt the reason why Baldwin , despite his talk earlier that year about Curzon 's ‘ streak of pure gold ’ , treated him as he did . |
| 17 | Or left a corpse , which was no better . |
| 18 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
| 19 | Her tea grew cold , which was no great loss . |
| 20 | Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 22 | According to the pneumatic Nadine , Dysart was Clare 's escort on that occasion , which was no surprise to me . |
| 23 | He had a long , brown , American-style overcoat , a woollen scarf against the cold , the usual hat , and the sword-stick , perhaps an imitation , which was no doubt a present . |
| 24 | She was doing what all men hated : holding a post-mortem on an event which was no more important in the scheme of life than the enjoyment of a good wine ! |
| 25 | We are extremely worried about that proposal , which was no doubt drawn up on the back of an envelope . |
| 26 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 27 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 28 | He 'd changed , which was no credit to Maria Luisa . |
| 29 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |
| 30 | We have had a good year with minor upsets , such as a cataract operation for me which was no trouble at all , and has resulted in a dramatic improvement in my eyesight . |