Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social services had a high degree of commitment to community care planning , which was diluted in the health agencies by other priorities . |
| 2 | Kevin Keegan , Ian Botham , Sally Gunnell and Nick Brown , not to mention figures from the world of showbusiness , Max Boyce and Fiona Fullerton , all took their courtside tables for the running buffet which was served during the tennis . |
| 3 | It was a problem which was aggravated by the need to meet the political argument that accession would involve an abandonment of sovereignty . |
| 4 | This was probably caused by the roll of linoleum , one end of which was tied to the carrier behind her saddle , the other to the handlebar . |
| 5 | To understand why the RHA became involved and wanted to force the pace , it is necessary to turn back to examine the state of affairs which was inherited by the authority from the old metropolitan health board . |
| 6 | Instead of entering the water , he landed straddled on an anchor which was racked at the stern . |
| 7 | The picture collection , which was made with the help of the dealer William Buchanan , was formed chiefly between 1840 and 1860 from most of the important auctions in London and from Italian collections . |
| 8 | The award , which was made during the year in which both the RSC and the polytechnic celebrate their sesquicentenaries , recognised the longstanding special relationship between the parties , and marks the RSC 's contribution to the work , life and culture of the polytechnic and its precursor institutions . |
| 9 | That course could not be taken in the present case , because of a specific and unusual statutory provision which anticipated the kind of mistake which was made by the sentencer in this case . |
| 10 | On 1 March he published his intention of inviolably observing the Charter of the Forest in all its articles : he appointed four commissioners to supervise the making in each forest county of ‘ a true perambulation , namely that which was made in the time of the lord King Henry our father , which has not yet been challenged ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An owl few over the ford , banked into a beechwood and gave a last hollow call , which was lost in the dawn 's loud chorus that seemed to presage a bright hot summer 's day in this rich and placid countryside . |
| 13 | The Edwardians were much perturbed by what was known as the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ and the structural unemployment which was built into the labour market for youths . |
| 14 | On the coast where we turn right and inland to the village of São Vicente ( 116km ) there is a tiny chapel which was built into the rock beside the mouth of the river in 1692 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Across the road is the Convent of Santa Clara which was built at the end of the fifteenth century and rebuilt in the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | This was the west side of the house , which was built in the shape of an E without the middle prong . |
| 18 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
| 19 | Later , I found an empty hut , which was built against the wall of a small house . |
| 20 | The header contains information about the writer ( e.g. sex , age , handedness etc ) , the date the sample was collected , the style of writing used ( e.g. lower case , upper case , cursive ) , and one or more sentences indicating the script which was written by the subject . |
| 21 | By order dated 10 March 1989 , which was received at the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 17 July 1989 , the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , referred to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling under article 177 of the E.E.C . |
| 22 | Burton was not told that he had been superseded , and it was not until February 1856 that he sent in his fee account , which was received by the Treasury ‘ with great surprise ’ . |
| 23 | Essential , essential work which was operated during the war years and er what year a couple , several years after that . |
| 24 | Which was smarting in the eye and she went to hospital to have her eye rinsed and all that . |
| 25 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 26 | From farther north in America comes the more familiar ‘ to have a chip on your shoulder ’ which was born in the logging camps . |
| 27 | Clovis 's letter , which was sent in the aftermath of the battle of " Vouillé " , describes how he had decreed that no one was to harm the Church , those who had entered the religious life , those living with them , or slaves of the Church . |
| 28 | The expenses of this were known as coat-and-conduct money , part of which was reimbursed by the Crown but most of which was borne by the counties . |
| 29 | But the light was as murky as that in the window , which was separated from the interior by a dusty , maroon velvet curtain . |
| 30 | He had continued to plead not guilty in respect of count 5 , but the only defence made after the legal ruling was the defence of duress , which was rejected by the jury and with which the Court of Appeal was not concerned . |