Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . |
| 2 | The transmission design and construction function ( which was in the hands of a centralised headquarters group inherited from the CEB ) was a model of efficiency , but the power station side posed more serious problems . |
| 3 | He ‘ used much pains ’ in raising forces to attack the Royalists in Sherborne ; but his military career came to an ignominious end with the failure of his assault on Corfe Castle , which was in the hands of Mary , Lady Bankes [ q.v. ] , and her Amazonian maidservants . |
| 4 | Yet in 1985 free-market Britain seemed to be outpacing the rest of bank-monitored Europe , which was in the throes of ‘ Eurosclerosis ’ : slow growth thanks to closed markets , protected managers and workers , and backward technology . |
| 5 | The budget review sub-committee has a provisional date of Thursday the third of February , which was in the minds of members and officers to deal with anything urgent that needed to be dealt with before county council budget making . |
| 6 | Loud French pop music howled out of a cassette recorder and everybody danced with each other to a song which was in the charts at the time , . |
| 7 | " He 'd know what was on the bills of lading . |
| 8 | However , they would differ on details like the distribution of stars and , even more , on what was on the covers of their magazines . |
| 9 | His depth of vision , grasp of essentials , logical thinking , and the intuition by which he seemed to sense what was in the minds of those about him always ensured the best results . |
| 10 | What was inside the cradles at first sight terrified me . |