Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In an address to the Chapter of Wells the new Bishop made the vow which was to cause him so much trouble later : ‘ In all solemnity to teach and inculcate allegiance' to the new King ‘ both in our discourse and in our example to all your subjects under our care ’ . |
| 3 | She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men . |
| 4 | That I correctly interpreted this is strongly suggested by the fact that she was not surprised by my answer which was to stop what I was doing , go out with her , and set about trying to free the cat . |
| 5 | That I correctly interpreted this is strongly suggested by the fact that she was not surprised by my answer — which was to stop what I was doing , go out with her , and set about trying to free the cat . |
| 6 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
| 7 | His ambition , which was to drive him so hard in later life , resulted in his being made choirmaster by the time he was fourteen — his first taste of authority . |
| 8 | There was something else now ; something that had n't been immediately apparent to Cardiff , but had been seen by the others straightaway and which was causing them to back away from the wall . |
| 9 | But they sparkled not outwardly but inwardly , for the deity which was causing him such intense satisfaction was inside himself . |
| 10 | She discovered though that it was not the odd-job man 's name which was causing him mild amusement , but her ! |
| 11 | This friend suggested that there might be something which had happened at an earlier stage in Kirsty 's life which was causing her health to deteriorate now . |
| 12 | Without warning , she suspended her scrutiny to locate a flea which was causing her some bother . |
| 13 | As a rule we had do tell everybody what we did over the weekend which was called our ‘ news ’ and we usually did this first thing on a Monday . |
| 14 | Sara shivered a little in her thin American suit as she walked down the gangway and got into the bus which was to take her and the other passengers to the arrival building . |
| 15 | The rest were employed at present between Stavros and Episkopi , loading and transporting the casks to the warehouses to await the arrival of the all-important galley which was to take them to Venice . |
| 16 | There was an air of amused but brutal determination about him which was sending her brain scuttling in all directions . |
| 17 | Its hull wailed and its engine whined as the upper atmosphere of Karkason roughly and frustratedly caressed this plasteel intruder which was penetrating it . |
| 18 | The character of the design does not differ from that of contemporary marbles , but arms and hands free of the body ( cf. fig. 72 where , in spite of the struts , the hands are lost ) demonstrate the much greater tensile strength of bronze , which was to allow its use in the classical period for compositions which the Greek marble-worker would have shunned . |
| 19 | Exerting this sense , he encountered the fog of daemonic shielding which was hiding whosoever occupied the hulk . |
| 20 | Well , the night after Sandy won his Open he was in the marquee , which was holding his celebration dinner , with his apron on , cleaning up and wishing everybody would go so he could get some peace and quiet . |
| 21 | Rostov looked down at the hand which was holding his arm . |
| 22 | The South Eastern Education Board , which was holding it 's monthly meeting this afternoon , has also voiced concern about the governors issue . |
| 23 | More recently , the Court of Appeal set aside an order prohibiting reporting by radio or television of a trial of fraud and corruption charges which was nearing its end at Stafford Crown Court . |
| 24 | When that grandfather , his last hope of a parent-figure among his own kin , turned his pipe , he pointed John Rowlands on the path which was to give him his place in history . |
| 25 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 26 | Hillary 's lucky number came up and he was one of the two members from the New Zealand team chosen to join an expedition which was to give him his place in the history books . |
| 27 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 28 | AN ANIMAL SOUND , like a bull in tumescence , was intruding in the helmet , a yowling , roaring noise , audible even above the roar of the engine behind my shoulders and the rush of wind which was buffeting them . |
| 29 | Sebestyen recalls wanting ‘ to counteract the aesthetic of technologised murder which was filling our TV screens ’ . |
| 30 | I did indeed want ‘ to counteract the aesthetic of technologised murder which was filling our TV screens ’ . |