Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 2 | This definition was summed up in the formula libertas ecclesiae , by which was understood the independence of the Church from all lay interference in ecclesiastical appointments , in the exercise of the Church 's spiritual functions , in the administration of its temporal rights and properties , and in the immunity of clerical persons from secular jurisdiction . |
| 3 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 4 | It was the line of the river Loire which was to save the French . |
| 5 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 6 | A small crowd had gathered round , buzzing with the excitement which was breaking the dull monotony of the day . |
| 7 | This transformation was usually accompanied by the enlargement of the area of jurisdiction of the kadilik through the addition of other districts in the vicinity : Konya , for example , was made a mevleviyet in 977/1569 " with the addition of certain sub-districts ' and the appointee later moved on to Maras , the kadilik of which was made a mevleviyet with the addition of Elbistan ; and Selanik , as mentioned above , was made a mevleviyet with the addition of Sidrekapsi . |
| 8 | Inside is a circular canal enclosing a small island on which was built a fine pavilion with domed halls and a central fountain . |
| 9 | ‘ It was explained to me that I had a mild form which was affecting the part of the brain that triggers migraine , which is why I was having sickness attacks and blinding headaches behind the eyes . ’ |
| 10 | That did not change till the Peloponnesian War , one effect of which was to erode the Corinthian middle class . |
| 11 | In 1907 , Sheaffer went one better and invented the lever filler , which was patented the following year . |
| 12 | He organised a demonstration on 19 September 1954 , out of which was born the National Liberation Movement ( NLM ) , a name which in the past the LPP had employed . |
| 13 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 14 | The recipe which was causing a minor commotion was for a lobster set ablaze with whisky . |
| 15 | In 1986 the leader of the Labour Party , Neil Kinnock , telephoned Malcolm Turnbull , the lawyer representing Peter Wright during the Spycatcher trial in Australia which was causing the British government and the security services endless embarrassment . |
| 16 | In Stunt v. Bolton a man refused to hand over to the police the keys of a car which was causing an obstruction of the highway . |
| 17 | Dr Nicholas Parkhouse had come to Kurdestan in 1985 under arrangements set up by International Medical Relief , a body linked to the French Medecins sans Frontières which was organizing a medical assistance operation spanning both sides of the frontier at the request of KDPI leader Qassemlou . |
| 18 | He knew anyway what John was doing , which was setting the fuse . |
| 19 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 20 | The first problem was not simply a lack of data : indeed , for two years , the EPA , which was funding the programme , could not decide where to start . |
| 21 | The pro-Washington stance of most post-war regimes in Latin America , along with the onslaught of anti-Communist propaganda generated by the Cold War , were the main reasons for the refusal of all but three nations to have diplomatic relations with the USSR during that period , and of all but one ( Perón 's Argentina , which was undergoing a near-total trade embargo imposed by Washington ) to engage in commercial activity . |
| 22 | In 1769 Thomas Pickering , a tin-plate manufacturer in Southwark , patented a method of raising patterns in sheet iron which was to affect the production of coffin furniture . |
| 23 | One end of a curved steel needle , which was called a prick , was inserted in a hole in the top of a knitting sheath , a traditional carved stick which held the needle firm and was placed in the knitter 's belt . |
| 24 | Prabhakar received two bouncers in an over from McDermott , the second of which was called a no-ball under the new regulation . |
| 25 | With the distinction between Competition Sports Cars and Prototypes disappearing , a new championship was introduced in 1972 which was called the World Championship for Makes for Prototype Sports Cars ( Group 5 ) and GT Cars ( Group 4 ) . |
| 26 | The men then unloaded the corn into the side bays each of which was called the gof — or goafstead . |
| 27 | Two of the company worked , at the same time , on an educational project , funded by the Hamlyn Foundation , which was called the Rock Me Amadeus Roadshow . |
| 28 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 29 | ‘ I knew J B Priestley a bit and he once suggested to me that I should do what he did in the Thirties , which was to take a trip around Britain talking to people . |
| 30 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |