Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fire claimed hundreds of parachutes which were being prepared for military exercises . |
| 2 | I advised the Labour Party over such things as the Vassall inquiry and , together with my friend Dennis Lloyd , I was on a number of committees and investigations to recommend changes in the law — particularly land law ( the working party on land nationalisation ) and the law of landlord and tenant — which were being prepared by the Labour Party for their future use . |
| 3 | Ministry of Defence and the centralization of the Defence votes , which were being studied at the same time as the Skybolt/Polaris crisis was coming to a head . |
| 4 | Relations were worsening , moreover , between the major capitalist nations and the developing countries , which were being robbed of the fruits of their labour and forced to suffer poverty , illiteracy and famine . |
| 5 | Out of the window , as she hastened down the spiral staircase , Mildred saw the fires which were being lit in the ruins of the old castle where the celebrations were always held . |
| 6 | After lunch we walked around the town and marvelled at the prices which were being asked for some of the antique furniture . |
| 7 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 8 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 9 | That 's what a rate reduction meant in real terms and that had to be weighed against the vicious cuts which were being posed in order to achieve it . |
| 10 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 11 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 12 | Although O'Keefe announced that he was taking no action against Howard , he emphasized a variety of measures which were being adopted in order to improve naval attitudes towards women and to facilitate future investigations of such incidents . |
| 13 | Work began in January 1991 on the construction at Crotone in Calabria , southern Italy , of the air base intended for the United States F-16 fighter-bombers which were being withdrawn from Spain . |
| 14 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 15 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 16 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 17 | Ruslan Khasbulatov , Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , at a meeting of the Presidium on Jan. 13 , supported the criticisms of Yeltsin 's economic policies which were being expressed by Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi . |
| 18 | The actual driving force behind American thinking on a renewal of atomic collaborations was anxiety about uranium ore supplies , which were being consumed at an increasing rate as American programmes accelerated . |
| 19 | Monroe and Bardot could hardly be held up as examples of the joys of fidelity , domesticity and motherhood which were being hymned in the magazines . |
| 20 | The external signs of ageing , as at different points eyesight blurred , menstruation ceased , hair and teeth fell out , were seen as linked to signs of internal degeneration such as sclerosis which were being discovered through post-mortems . |
| 21 | The findings of the research , which were being undertaken on behalf of the HCIMA by the University of Surrey , would be used to extend the Association 's existing Corpus of Knowledge research , providing information on the functions hospitality industry managers perform at different levels and in different situations , to raise the profile of the 23000-strong professional body within the European forum . |
| 22 | As is well known , I was one of those who felt that adjustments and changes were needed to the Conservative party and to the policies which were being pursued by the Government . |
| 23 | By 1990 , many systems had changed to the extent that 80 per cent of the costs came from services — software , engineering support and applications consultancy — many of which were being provided by the hardware suppliers . |
| 24 | But here he had to leave me to attend to stores which were being brought on board , and some twenty minutes later I could see the place for myself . |
| 25 | The grateful driver told the farmer that his cargo consisted of 47 foxes which were being transported from the Midlands to be let loose in Wales by order of the RSPCA . |
| 26 | CUSTOMS officials had seized 170 tons of bananas , worth £150,000 , which were being smuggled into Portugal in foreign-registered vehicles , police in Lisbon said yesterday . |
| 27 | The videos were part of a number of fake goods which were being sold at a market in Tewkesbury . |
| 28 | Guerrillas in Kashmir used rockets for the first time on June 19 , in an attack on two waterfront hotels in Srinagar which were being used as barracks by Indian security forces . |
| 29 | The action was brought by the owners of the two ships which were being repaired at the time of the fire and were damaged . |
| 30 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |