Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visitors were herded into two large halls , which were once the hotel ballroom and dining room . |
| 2 | The salon , which was formerly a linen mill , has had its two top floors converted into gallery space , and the exhibition of local talent opens tomorrow ( Thursday , September 2 ) . |
| 3 | The auditors picked up that we had a pink purchase order form which was neither a commissioning letter nor a contract . |
| 4 | which was probably the burial place of the East Anglian King Redwald who died in the seventh century AD. contained a wealth of fine metalwork including a sword . |
| 5 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 6 | Still worse , he could imagine he recognised a face which was n't a FAKINTIL man at all . |
| 7 | South Korea which was not a COCOM member , had agreed to observe COCOM regulations . |
| 8 | It has bought a dud Utah thrift , MountainWest , which was already a Visa card-issuer . |
| 9 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 10 | Dean , an early influence on anyone of Jack 's age , had little more than a year left of his life and was in regular attendance in 1954 , which was also the year Marlon Brando made it very big indeed in another Kazan film , On the Waterfront . |
| 11 | Bramble decided to follow , and when he entered the office , which was also the village shop , he found the stranger in earnest colloquy with the postmaster , one Algy Brind . |
| 12 | ‘ Then we had a Highway Code-cum-driving practice test and a 30-minute test on everything from dirt roads to motorways , which was partly an economy test driving at the maximum safe speed . |
| 13 | Thus the Simonova , which was technically a Navy vessel , was crewed by civilians and carried its Navy complement as passengers . |
| 14 | The last hurdle to liquidation was overcome in August when a New York bankruptcy court refused to reopen a class action negligence suit brought by 160,000 former investors in Jim Bakker 's Praise the Lord ministry , which was once a Laventhol client . |
| 15 | Special church services were held , sports days organized for both adults and children , and parish teas were served in the village hall , which was once the village school . |
| 16 | The first dedicated fax card I used was the JTFax , which was purely a fax card and lacked a data modem . |
| 17 | This is an attractive 18th-century building which was originally a village inn . |
| 18 | ( In Artillery Lane , nearby , there is a warehouse which was originally a Huguenot chapel . ) |
| 19 | They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s . |
| 20 | The deal , which was basically a barter arrangement for 1991 , was Bulgaria 's first intergovernmental agreement with a Soviet republic . |
| 21 | Prior to 1968 the veterans ' organisation was called ‘ Fighters for Freedom' ’ which was really an umbrella organisation . |
| 22 | As they progressed through the great hall , which was now a recording studio , and practice rooms and six master bedrooms , with bathrooms and jacuzzis en suite , and an intercom service so Dancer 's retinue could chatter to each other all night , the twins ' whoops of laughter and excitement grew in volume . |
| 23 | They conceived it in the form of a puma and its heart was the ceremonial site which was now the Plaza de Armas . |
| 24 | Could that be , perhaps , the Isla Esperanza and , beyond , the much larger Hanover Island , Isla Jorge Montt and the chunk of rock the Royal Navy ( who found it ) once called Cambridge Island , but which was now the Isla Diego de Almagro ? |
| 25 | We had supper at eight which was usually a rock cake or a scone , or sometimes we had toast , and a cup of tea . |
| 26 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 27 | It is significant that during the second and third centuries B.C. what was probably a customs post at Begram , Afghanistan , on the route between China and the west was handling ivory as well as glass and bronzes from the west in addition to lacquer bowls from China . |
| 28 | One , Levers Water Level , was put in to try what was probably the South Vein , with a branch taken off to try other lodes . |
| 29 | The fine Victorian Gothic spire surmounts what was formerly the Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland . |
| 30 | What was formerly the West Street Cotton Company 's factory — now the Templeton Carpets factory — is a piece of Victorian eccentricity in industrial building almost without rival , except possibly for Marshall 's Mill in Leeds ( q.v . ) . |