Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 One concomitant of the close link between landed patrons and Anglican clergy was a growing divorce between the church and people which was made worse by the generally lax state of the eighteenth-century diocese of Chichester .
2 But others felt the bins themselves presented a health hazard which was made worse by inadequate servicing in the summer .
3 But Didone has a peculiarity which was to mark later Italian opera , including L'incoronazione : the part of Jarba , Dido 's rejected lover , who in the end saves her from suicide , is a castrato singing in a higher register than Dido herself ; Nerone and Ottone are in the same predicament .
4 Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment .
5 I saw this good-looking redhead with a bust to challenge Shakti 's — a sight which was getting rarer and rarer as women were made to get thinner and thinner for the convenience of the multi-billion dress designing industry , much easier and hence more economical and hence more profitable to clothe a bean pole than an hour glass — walking my way .
6 A crash in share prices , which was to prove greater than that of 1929 , was well underway : between September 1973 and September 1974 they were to fall by between 23 per cent in Japan and 55 per cent in the United Kingdom .
7 When the press photographers took pictures the following morning their pictures of chaos were somehow symbolic of the chaos which was growing worse in Romania .
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