Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 100,000 businesses , mainly in the North and the Midlands , which were expecting their rate bills to fall by at least 50 per cent , will see no significant change , said Mr Banham . |
| 2 | He made love to her with a driving desperation that matched the excesses which were to shock her in retrospect , and if his flesh bore the imprint of her nails and teeth afterwards , there were faint reciprocal marks on her body , mostly the legacy of an erotically suckling mouth . |
| 3 | In 1969 it was back again on its wandering course , and was engineered cheaply back into line by dredging out the gravel shoals which were causing it to wander . |
| 4 | My Lord it is pleaded as being a matter of er common practice amongst solicitors in this kind of situation er for such advice to be given and my Lord er if you turn to the folio of their particulars erm which were given I think it 's the final book , what are called the voluntary further and better particulars which in fact were the final particulars er given towards the end of the bundle of documents . |
| 5 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 6 | You know coming from seventy to hundred a sixty five in fact when had their sales meeting last Friday it was observed that the sales force in the er which were gathered which we do every two months in the in the major suite the training suite er conference suite at head office er that was the total number of sales execs we had in January the previous year . |
| 7 | They hired a man with red hair called John Bell to catch the moles which were plaguing their land . |
| 8 | Its brilliance lay in the assumption that , according to this principle , certain places in the periodic table of all the ninety-two elements were still empty , and in predicting the properties of the as yet undiscovered elements which were to fill them . |
| 9 | She looked in horror at his hand , and the small specks of rust which were staining his skin from where he was exerting such extreme pressure . |
| 10 | He had a taxi waiting , and on arrival we found a long cloth-draped table in the centre of the room , around which were seated what seemed to be the entire Chinese population of the city — some 30 Chinese , mainly from laundries and restaurants . |
| 11 | These bases — Hassani , Argos and Molai — were in use by the Luftwaffe for attacks on Crete , which were reaching their climax at this time . |
| 12 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 13 | And it was those waves which were to carry him , steadily and inexorably , to a far-distant grave . |
| 14 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 15 | From the start of his personal rule Edward showed the qualities of leadership , affability and sympathy with the aspirations of the nobility which were to characterize his reign until its last decade , and which underlay the domestic political harmony of the ensuing years . |
| 16 | King James continued in the series of follies which were to lose him his throne , including the consecration of a papal nuncio in St James 's Chapel , the replacement of Protestant officers by Catholics in the army , and the creation of an Ecclesiastical Commission with wide and illegal disciplinary powers . |
| 17 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 18 | And thirdly , and certainly not erm least , we hoped ourselves to benefit at a time when the Government cutbacks were just come into force , which were requiring us to raise erm more income from non-government source . |
| 19 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 20 | Public pressure against nuclear power was a factor in this decision , but so too was the government 's concern at the high costs of nuclear-generated electricity , waste disposal and plant decommissioning which were hindering its attempts to privatize the electricity industry . |
| 21 | Burghley Park became his study and there he formulated his religious ideas which were to alienate him from society for the rest of his life . |
| 22 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |
| 23 | And if recent reports are anything to go by it was n't only aircraft which were paying their respects to Parham yesterday . |
| 24 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 25 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 26 | He looked up into her wide blue eyes which were scrutinising him intently over the mug of tea which she was holding with two hands . |
| 27 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 28 | It was on a fishing expedition in late autumn a year or two ago that we were visited by a number of pomarine skuas , no doubt birds from northern Siberia which were making their way towards wintering quarters in the south Atlantic . |
| 29 | This contact was increasingly in danger of disappearing due to the economic pressures on the company , and , by the same token , budget pressures on the school which were making it difficult to commit teacher time to a non-class contact time activity . |
| 30 | Baillie-Stewart had renounced his British citizenship before the war and applied for German naturalisation , a gesture which was to save his life in 1946 . |