Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Autocracy appeared the very linchpin of everything that offended a small but intellectually dynamic intelligentsia which was breaking away from the traditional values of the nobility . |
| 2 | Ashore the troops were commanded by Colonel John Durnford-Slater , the Commanding Officer of 3 Commando , who did most of the detailed planning for the raiding force which was made up from the entire 3 Commando , reinforced by two Troops from ‘ No.2 ’ with additional Royal Engineers from ‘ No.6 ’ , Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) personnel from ‘ No.4 ’ , intelligence officers from the War Office , and a Press Unit . |
| 3 | A new cult established itself over twenty years , its shrine being the domed town of the Keepers , which was built up against the entrance to caverns . |
| 4 | The New Town , the central part of which was built mainly in the second half of the eighteenth century , is more spaciously laid out in classical streets and squares — ‘ not only gay and airy ’ , said Robert Louis Stevenson , ‘ but highly picturesque ’ . |
| 5 | The protestant refugees , inhabitants , and garrison of the city , which was built deliberately with a wall lest a catholic rebellion should ever occur , held the city for fifteen weeks against a poorly equipped catholic Irish army led by James II , the exiled king . |
| 6 | These principles are fully consistent with paragraph 1374 of Archbold , Criminal Pleading , Evidence and Practice , 36th ed. ( 1966 ) and the cases there cited and paragraph 4–179 of the 41st ed. ( 1982 ) , which was written just before the publication in Practice Note ( Criminal Evidence : Unused Material ) [ 1982 ] 1 All E.R. |
| 7 | According to a House of Commons motion , the leak was traced through a system of numbered copies of the 752-page document , which was sent out to the authorities investigating possible criminal proceedings resulting from the report 's conclusions . |
| 8 | Well of course we protested and went on the March for Life and Peace , which was turned back by the military . |
| 9 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |
| 10 | Suddenly , everyone was talking about Syria and Iran — which country had more power over the hostage-takers , which was leaning more to the West . |
| 11 | This delayed the Whole patrol for two hours whilst the unfortunate driver was flown to the Field Hospital in a Gazelle helicopter which was called out to the scene , and a REME team drove out to repair the Land-Rover . |
| 12 | A judge in New York on July 11 ruled that the US airline Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) was guilty of " wilful misconduct " in its security procedures for baggage on its flight PA103 in December 1988 which was blown up by a bomb over Lockerbie , Scotland , killing 270 people [ see pp. 36409-10 ] . |
| 13 | A 184 year old cedar tree which was blown down in the January storms was the focus of an enterprising initiative in April at Claremont Landscape Garden , Surrey . |
| 14 | He defeated Anatoly Alekseyev , leader of the International Front which was supported overwhelmingly by the Russian minority and opposed Latvian independence , by 153 votes to 43 . |
| 15 | The peak of the student movement , in Europe as well as in the US , was reached in 1968 , marked most dramatically by the May revolt of the French students , which was supported briefly by a large part of the working-class movement . |
| 16 | The introduction of grant-maintained schools was perhaps the most controversial proposal in the Education Reforms Act 1988 , and one which was justified primarily on the grounds that it would extend parental choice in education . |
| 17 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |
| 18 | The room was unpainted and the only furniture consisted of a lime green sofa , two wooden chairs and a three-legged coffee table which was propped up against the wall to prevent it from toppling over . |
| 19 | The district judge was undoubtedly aware of it , since it features in his lengthy rehearsal of the arguments , but he did not refer to it when he came to give reasons for his ruling , which was based exclusively on an examination of the merits . |
| 20 | But the most evocative sight at Parham yesterday was the return of the B-Seventeen Flying Fortress which was based there during the war . |
| 21 | Well , from what I saw Rods ' goal was a very good goal — driven into the corner , and their goal was a short corner kick which was hit hopefully into the box … everyone was running out ( as you do ) but Wetherall had done extremely well and was covering the cross perfectly as a couple of Everton players lurked hopefully near the far post . |
| 22 | The News of the World had developed a distinctively titillating style of reporting rape which was matched only by the arrival of the restructured Sun which began to develop its present style in the early 1970s . |
| 23 | The 1930s witnessed the emerging confrontation with Fascism in Europe , a struggle which was played out on the battlefields of Spain from 1936 to 1939 . |
| 24 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 25 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 26 | Accordingly , for many public figures writing in the 1890s and early 1900s , the character of citizenship and the common understanding and experience of it , all of which was bound up with the imperatives of progress , became urgent political and social issues . |
| 27 | This was the first of two planned sales from the Korthaus collection , which was formed mainly during the 1960s by one of the German industrialists active in the field during the post-war period . |
| 28 | We on this side of the House will continue to propose and to support policies which give practical effect to the hope for a new and durable world order of peace , liberty , and prosperity which was expressed again at the United Nations last week . |
| 29 | Both Jarlshof and Ness of Burgi have been covered in the thin film of oil which was deposited all over the southern part of Shetland . |
| 30 | All of the original planets had extensive atmospheres of hydrogen , carbon dioxide and helium which was swept away by the intense solar radiation . |