Example sentences of "[Wh det] were [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 was designed to replace the former system of emergency grants for special needs for such items as cookers and clothing , which were dispensed under a variety of rules .
2 A closer look — say from a boat — would show that these birds were feeding on sand-eels which were massed in a huge ‘ ball ’ just below the surface .
3 Programmes which were made for a general public of native speakers of the language will obviously not be graded for use with language students .
4 It said that the company regretted the job losses , which were made following a reduced demand for certain products , due primarily to lower production rates of civil aircraft .
5 The meeting was reported to have seen differences between Syria , Iraq , Sudan and Libya on the one hand , which were pushing for a more intransigent Arab League position , and the Gulf states on the other , which spoke out for " international legitimacy " ( according to Radio Monte Carlo on April 30 ) .
6 Optimism about an economic upswing was clouded by signs of popular opposition to the government 's liberalization measures , some of which were seen as a prelude to job losses in the public sector .
7 In the front window was a display of paint-brushes which were arranged in a fan .
8 With the discovery of better-preserved material it became apparent that the graptolites consisted of rows of tiny cups which were interconnected by a common canal — they were colonial animals .
9 Other such thematic surveys completed during the year included the DOE-funded Falkirk project , the results of which were presented at a one day seminar for planning officials , where the practical value of the 36 thematic maps produced was demonstrated .
10 Subconfluent monolayers remained attached to coverslips , which were placed in a small chamber ( vol 2 ml ) and visualised on the stage of a Nikon ( Diaphot ) inverted microscope with Hoffmann modulated optics ( ×400 magnification ) .
11 While the dealer refused to reveal the mosaics ' whereabouts , he succeeded in obtaining four mosaic sections from Mr Dikmen which were deposited in a Frankfurt warehouse .
12 In June last year , it completed the acquisition of some assets and liabilities of Frederick Electronics Corp and Futurecomms Inc from Plantronics Inc , which were integrated as a subsidiary , SFA DataComm Inc .
13 The report focussed particularly on universities which were constructed at a time when long-lasting buildings were not a priority .
14 In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile ; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback , positive or negative , from market researchers .
15 The payments were part of a package of benefits which were to act as a carrot to persuade workers to accept being made unemployed .
16 His defence came as the Commons Public Accounts Committee decided it would meet on Monday to hold an inquiry into the Guardian 's disclosure of the ‘ sweeteners ’ which were revealed in a confidential memorandum sent to MPs by Mr John Bourn , the Comptroller and Auditor General .
17 It may not be a coincidence that the Otago Rugby Union , of which Dowling is a committee member and former chairman , actually requested that the NZRFU cancel the July-August tour of South Africa because of the drug scandals that had occurred — and which were followed by a variety of other allegations and proof of steroid use in the Republic .
18 Potential inferences which were disconfirmed by a later statement were invariably rejected , and inferences which were neither confirmed nor disconfirmed were falsely identified as often as they had been in the neutral condition .
19 The conditions agreed on Dec. 16 , which were based on a set of guidelines elaborated by France for recognition of new states emerging in Europe , included ( i ) acceptance of the UN , Helsinki Act and Paris Charter commitments on the rule of law , democracy and human rights ; ( ii ) guarantees of ethnic and minority rights ; ( iii ) acceptance of the inviolability of frontiers ; ( iv ) honouring disarmament and regional security commitments ; ( v ) arbitration to decide a structure to replace the old state ; ( vi ) acceptance of the draft agreement on Yugoslavia 's future , elaborated by the EC peace conference [ see p. 38559 ] .
20 deletes module names which were reserved before a specified date but for which there is no module
21 Hrun the Barbarian crept soundlessly along the corridors , which were lit with a light so violet that it was almost black .
22 The revelation came in the form of internal documents of the Aleyeska Pipeline Service company , which were leaked to a congressman .
23 The plaintiff 's bar responded vigorously , developing a series of arguments many of which were accepted in a leading case in the Fifth Circuit , Re Anschuetz & Co .
24 The most popular events were the cycle races which were raced over a mile , 2 miles and 3 miles including handicaps and novice events and finishing with a 3 mile handicap race open to all comers " .
25 On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household .
26 Cohn set up a spy system at the studio with microphones on every sound stage which were connected to a speaker in his office .
27 These data were held in separate files , which were converted via a series of filter programs into a canonical file format , listing just the clones positive for a given probe .
28 Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries .
29 The overall figures for the first two years are given in table I. There have been a total of 16 positive test results , nine of which were confirmed on a subsequent venous sample , giving an incidence of 1:3802 male births .
30 In June Saibou announced plans to establish a multiparty democracy which were confirmed after a five-day national strike in November [ see p. 37841 ] .
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