Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest part of the castle is a gate-house tower , which was built in the earlier 15th century and absorbed into a rectangular three-storeyed tower house in the late 15th or early 16th century . |
| 2 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 3 | Fishing , which centuries of experience had made into a great food-supplying industry , and which was blessed by the exceptionally rich fishing grounds of the North Sea and the North Atlantic , also employed ships and provided a livelihood for thousands of men . |
| 4 | The Tramroad Company was acquired by Blackpool under the terms of the Blackpool Improvement Act of 1919 , which was opposed by the then — Fleetwood U.D.C. Fleetwood resented Blackpool 's ownership of the track within its area , and succeeded in winning the right to purchase the tramway after twenty-one years . |
| 5 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 6 | An alternative proposal , support for which was centred around the strongly " pro-whaling " members — Norway , Iceland and Japan — that commercial whaling be allowed to resume immediately on all stocks which had recovered to 30 per cent of estimated pre-hunting levels , was rejected by 19 votes to seven . |
| 7 | The sharp nose and thin lips gave his angular face a harshness which was softened by the neatly trimmed black moustache he had worn since his early twenties . |
| 8 | She gave him what was left of the already denuded packet : only two hundred pounds , it was true , and nothing like what it should be . |
| 9 | These writers , of whom Marx ( 1818–83 ) , Weber ( 1864–1920 ) , and Durkheim ( 1858–1917 ) are usually regarded as the most important , were essentially theorists , who based their analysis of what was happening to the rapidly changing European societies of that time on evidence from historians and other sources rather than on their own original research . |
| 10 | More than 300 scientists took part in what was billed as the most comprehensive snap-shot yet of depletion cause by industrial gases above the northern hemisphere . |
| 11 | Washington is likely to react angrily to Kiev 's stance , the latest example of brinkmanship between Russia and Ukraine over military matters , which could scuttle what was hailed as the most significant arms deal reached by the superpowers . |
| 12 | Again , neither these comments nor what was described as the least desirable eventuality ‘ the establishment of a Communist-dominated , Moscow-oriented state in Indo-China ’ , seem inaccurate or unreasonable : although it may be argued that the inherent fault was to assume that this represented the limit of Ho 's power and appeal . |