Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place Barn , Wilmington , Polegate , East Sussex Place Barn , Wilmington , is flint-walled barn which was formerly attached to Priory Farm at the head of the hill that leads out of the village to the South Downs . |
| 2 | The visitor came from Surrey and brought with him a bat , which was duly presented to me — my first cricket bat ! |
| 3 | It is difficult to understand why this screen — which was presumably intended to be a close-boarded fence — was needed , as the turnpike road is some distance away , one field beyond the other side of the river . |
| 4 | Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest . |
| 5 | A period of rather dull winter training in Cyrenaica ensued , but by the spring his battery , now detached from the rest of the regiment ( which was in the rear , and which was later withdrawn to Egypt ) , was again in action . |
| 6 | As a reaction against anthropomorphic interpretations , there grew up a movement devoted to explaining animal behaviour in mechanistic terms , a movement which was later extended to human behaviour . |
| 7 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 8 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |
| 9 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Initially he was treated with ganciclovir for 3 months , which was later changed to foscarnet for lack of response and presumed resistance . |
| 11 | It referred to the regional strategy which is currently out for consultation but was an emerging document and copies of that were again appended to the briefing paper it outlined the county council 's procedures which were followed in progress in the structure plan it outlined a programme establishing the weight of opinion of objectors it indicated our process in preparing policy amendments to be put to the panel and all those matters were made public It also requested the panel 's view on the role of county council members at the enquiry in public the responses to that were not made public and were in fact a question which was clearly put to the panel . |
| 12 | By 1989 , he was publicly proclaiming his intention of imitating Albania and anchoring a ban on foreign loans in the constitution , which was clearly going to be more binding on his successors than himself . |
| 13 | In 1768 he patented a method for hardening and preserving wood , which was effectively applied to several warships and publicized by an eight-page advertisement ( 1770 ) ; it describes thirty-one items tested at his Great Tower Hill works , ranging from brewing implements and wooden pipes for London waterworks to twenty-five gun-carriages treated for the Tower of London garrison . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , however , a good many East Indiamen were unable to enter the Bay of Bengal , which was effectively restricted to vessels whose bottoms had been plated with copper to prevent damage from marine worms . |
| 15 | Officers took unkindly to being reformed by a self-educated and self-appointed expert in civil-military relations ; many , retired and active alike , began to conspire against a Republic which was increasingly seen to be not only anti-military but also ‘ soft ’ on the two issues that most obsessed military minds : regionalism and public order . |
| 16 | Pavis , upset at being interrupted as he tried to thank the contractors who have built three new stands , said : ‘ I regret the choice of words but it was an instinctive reaction which was n't meant to be heard . ’ |
| 17 | Until late 1988 , whisky spirits in Japan faced a special tax which was not applied to other spirits . |
| 18 | Therefore the Japanese switched tactics and attacked together with fighters and dive bombers which was not according to Genda 's careful plan . |
| 19 | While some felt frightened about participating in an organization which was not related to the church , others were very enthusiastic . |
| 20 | During the 1930s a strong pacifist movement came into being which was not tied to a major party although most of its supporters were Labour or Liberal voters . |
| 21 | American interests demanded a friendly and stable Middle East , one which was not exposed to Soviet interference or encroachment , and from which supplies of oil — especially to Western Europe — were assured . |
| 22 | Very few American politicians and officials were aware of the secret Quebec Agreement , which was not revealed to them until May 1947 , and none knew of the Hyde Park Aide-Memoir , which had been filed amongst Roosevelt 's papers . |
| 23 | This approach assumed a degree of consensus within the family which was not assumed to the same extent in any other social institution . |
| 24 | The first fire occurred in an electrical cabinet which was not connected to the plant 's basic circuit . |
| 25 | We will see how the development of Anglo-Saxon archaeology , in which the number of practitioners has always been relatively small , has engendered a conservative approach to the period which was not suited to answering the fundamental questions relating to human social evolution . |
| 26 | In addition he convened a People 's Representative Assembly which was not confined to the CPP but included others . |
| 27 | Corrigan felt it was important , in his study of the boys in an urban secondary school , to create a role for himself which was not threatening to them : |
| 28 | Many years ago , there was a statutory provision that , in the event of an appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal , the trial judge could write a letter to that court which was not disclosed to the appellant . |
| 29 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 30 | After only 4000 reactor years worldwide , Chernobyl approached the worst conceivable nuclear reactor accident , which was previously estimated to be of a probability somewhere near 1 in 10,000 or even I in a million per reactor year . |