Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was called Francis Alexander William , which were all family names . |
| 2 | Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots . |
| 3 | Manila 's public transport is based on a multitude of ‘ jeepneys ’ the originals of which were surplus US army jeeps left after the war with Japan . |
| 4 | When the Fens was mainly marshland , people clustered on the small humps or islands of boulder clay which were dry point sites . |
| 5 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 6 | There was a table near the window on which were three Carlsberg ashtrays ( no wonder you ca n't find one in a pub ) and a pair of professional-looking binoculars . |
| 7 | I remember the gypsies or didycoys congregating outside their favourite pubs in Milford Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays which were both Market Days . |
| 8 | Two pork pies and a can of Coke each but not the apples which were imported Granny Smiths and bruised , and anyway they had strawberries . |
| 9 | In a hypothetical life-form with both hands of amino acid it is possible that rather than no helices being created , there would be helical molecules which were true mirror images of one another . |
| 10 | Every night the show finished at eleven ; after the Saturday performance they would have to pack the stage costumes and props carefully into skips which were large wicker baskets which could be thrown around without harm to the contents . |
| 11 | We 're selling that with all the other medals some of which were British campaign medals , some were given to him by countries like Poland because of his special friendship or good deeds |
| 12 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 13 | In addition to their port duties , Lerwick staff had to cover controls at Sumburgh Airport which was thirty miles south of Lerwick over a bumpy switchback road . |
| 14 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |
| 15 | When considering the question of natural monopoly , we found some sufficient conditions for subadditivity , one of which was decreasing ray average cost plus transray convexity . |
| 16 | I left the car in the park and strolled across to the cool of the veranda bar , which was decorated rancho style and was well supplied with electric fans at strategic points . |
| 17 | He came out firmly for caution and against the Turkish adventure which was exciting Lloyd George , Churchill , Birkenhead and most of the other ardent Coalitionists . |
| 18 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 19 | Dedham from Langham , long blues , long brown shore , brush strokes in the clouds ; Rockets and Blue Lights ( Close at Hand ) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water , painted light rippled the sand and waves into a vortex and what were those people doing on the shore ? |
| 20 | What were these people doing that we were n't doing , and vice versa ? |
| 21 | What were these blackout curtains made of , then ? |
| 22 | Parent : What was that Maths homework you said you had ? |
| 23 | What was that D D D ? |
| 24 | What was that noise Mummy ? |
| 25 | What was that rally car then ? |
| 26 | ‘ What was that routine Lewis used to do ? |
| 27 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |
| 28 | The greatest concentration of bobbin mills was in the Furness district of what was then north Lancashire , and in the mid-nineteenth century more than fifty mills were at work in the region , making half the bobbins used in the entire textile industry of Britain . |
| 29 | That was what was worrying Mr Berkley this morning . |
| 30 | ‘ We know what was worrying Rhoda Brocklebank , and Roxie Farmer and Mrs Terry Place . |