Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built in 1907 to serve the local soft fruit trade , and although it is an elegant bridge it is actually built of concrete blocks which were made on the site . |
| 2 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 3 | This led to the everyday use of microphones which were mounted on the end of a short boom extending from one of the ear-pieces of the pilot 's radio headset to a position in front of his mouth . |
| 4 | Organizations which were represented on the Council of Representatives and which had " armies " could apply to have their armed forces officially registered . |
| 5 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
| 6 | Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein . |
| 7 | In terms of Figure 7.5 , the rise in output from y * ; to Y 1 is the result of a series of individual decisions which were based on the assumption that , although the price of each island 's output had clearly risen to p 1 , the general price level in the rest of the economy would remain at p . |
| 8 | Work began in early 1978 on the problems associated with replacing the existing Payroll and Personnel Systems which were run on the ICL computer with a single integrated system to be run on the new IBM processors . |
| 9 | there were four people at the last meeting er and two others from the department a male and a female who looked after the bits of the department but I can not now remember what their names were let me just see if I 've got my notes which were written on the inside of a British Airways flight ticket come in , hi ya |
| 10 | I could fill a book with the other similar comments which were written on the questionnaires but I think we can take it as read that the trials proved beyond doubt that if you followed the diet moderately strictly you could definitely lose inches from parts usually untouched by normal dieting methods . |
| 11 | This aptly describes the houses in this book , which were built on the whole by country gentry , tradesmen and clergymen , on a moderate scale , rather than by the aristocracy , who liked to flaunt their aesthetic views and show how cultivated they were on a much larger one . |
| 12 | So he , he sat in the mess room there and checked his box against the tickets which were shown on the waybill . |
| 13 | And inwardly in his mind and in his thoughts , he will survey all the present creation and the worlds that have passed or are still standing ; the years of the world with all the happenings that occurred in it , and the men with their wealth and their power ; the revelations of the [ spiritual ] benefits which were bestowed on the Fathers , and the retributory judgements that took place generation after generation [ or ‘ birth after birth' ] , together with all the various vicissitudes which the affairs of the creation undergo . |
| 14 | He looked at the woodcuts , which were described on the title page as ‘ Illustrations by B.G. ’ A female figure with a scarfed head , flying apron and great wooden shoes , standing in a clearing surrounded by dark pine trees full of white eyes among their crossing arms of needles . |
| 15 | The act of grinding , which could be continued for several hours , resulted in the insoluble starting material being reduced to very small fragments which were distributed on the surface of the lactose particles . |
| 16 | GEORGE Wood , CCG 's manager at Osmosis Bar in Glasgow , competed again for the Scottish shooting team in July in the Home Internationals for Skeet , which were held on the Isle of Man . |
| 17 | Disconsolately , she rested her head on the arms which were folded on the cot rail . |
| 18 | Highlights are two gold treasures , the ‘ Schatz von Hiddensee ’ , sixteen pieces of gold jewellery which were found on the shore of the Baltic , and the twenty-five piece set of jewellery of the empress Agnes . |
| 19 | The Spanish student who discovered them is now thought to have painted the cave with natural pigments but using modern rubber sponges , fragments of which were found on the walls . |
| 20 | By a mysterious logic which was lost on the majority , a retired military officer took command , demanding total obedience from all foreigners in the camp . |
| 21 | Also in East Yorkshire are Goodmanham , which was built on the site of a pagan temple and Rudston , where the church is adjacent to the tallest standing stone in Britain . |
| 22 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 23 | Between 1984 and 1987 he was managing director of , a family owned business which was floated on the USM in 1985 and sold to in 1986 . |
| 24 | The Duke stared at Sharpe for a few seconds , then flinched at the blood which was caked on the Rifleman 's jacket . |
| 25 | In each case it was a duty which was imposed on the judges in their capacity as judges of the superior courts and related to the administration of justice in those courts . |
| 26 | Garnons-Williams RN , an enthusiastic supporter of the raiding idea , found some ‘ crash ’ air-sea rescue boats for Dudley Clarke 's first raid , which was mounted on the night France surrendered , 23 June , with four landings along a 20-mile stretch of French coast around Boulogne . |
| 27 | The Head of Department was first asked to specify how he and his colleagues assessed their pupils ' work , illustrating the process by assessing a pencil drawing which was mounted on the wall . |
| 28 | The Jets mounted a final drive which was halted on the Los Angeles 15-yard line with nine seconds left to play . |
| 29 | The exhibition ends with the remnants of the statue of Stalin which was destroyed on the night of October 23 , 1956 , to show the collapse of a main feature of that sad era — that of the cult of personality . ’ |
| 30 | It is at this point that the old Gotthard road and the railway line both cross to the west side of the valley while the modern motorway in galleries and tunnels cuts through the steep rock-flank of the massive Bristen , which was seen on the horizon earlier in the route . |