Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is imperative that the quality of service is extended into the washroom facilities , which is why the Facilities Manager specified Rentokil Healthcare Services . |
| 2 | And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it . |
| 3 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 4 | They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s . |
| 5 | It is significant that during the second and third centuries B.C. what was probably a customs post at Begram , Afghanistan , on the route between China and the west was handling ivory as well as glass and bronzes from the west in addition to lacquer bowls from China . |