Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Kahan , the Battery Park commissioner , awarded Olympia & York the contract when Reichmann guaranteed payment of several hundred million on the city 's bonds which were due the next year . |
| 2 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 3 | And you see doing th er that er junior the junior school In the earlier junior school we were at the church as well , which was on the next street , St John 's Church at Mansfield . |
| 4 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 5 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 6 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 7 | erm There they might have remained erm but erm a sensational discovery took place , which was during the Second World War , when , in the Blitz , a bomb actually hit the , the , the place of worship for the Muddletonians , where they were still worshipping though in very small number , and the man whom we have called the last Muddletonian , who was a farmer in Matfield in Kent , went out with his lorry — you remember petrol was rationed during the war , but he was allowed as a farmer — he took his fruit to Covent Garden , and then went to the smoking ruins of the Muddletonian worship , and filled his apple boxes with papers , and they remained there until the nineteen seventies . |
| 8 | It was formed by a number of volcanic eruptions , the last of which was around the 18th century BC , and its hot-headed volcanic formations warm the local waters to delicious bathing temperatures . |
| 9 | To Dr Porter , " in a multitude of small ways , the poor law served as a thorough-going system of support " which was in the first half of the eigh-teenth century " quite generous in their paternalist supplements to domestic income " . |
| 10 | The truth , since that seems to be the painful area we are now entering , is that when I was last measured , which was in the fifth form at school , I entered the official records at 5ft 8½in , thanks largely to a tempestuous hairstyle , and by the cunning device of raising myself onto my toes as the sports master lowered the wooden measure . |
| 11 | We leave the book with a clear image of war which was in the last line , we are just as bad as the boys on that island , that is what man is like . |
| 12 | Hammond was looking down , his shoulders hunched forward , as if he knew already what was in the second file . |
| 13 | But now again a wicked curiosity rose up in him , to know what was inside the second reed . |