Example sentences of "[Wh det] a [adj] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until very recently , it was usually the case that the ownership of a house in which a married couple lived was held by the husband , the woman having little direct legal claim to it . |
| 2 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
| 3 | The NRA had to put booms across the Dee at the iron bridge on the Grosvenor Estate to try to contain the fuel , to which a red dye had been added to denote that it was for use in farm vehicles only . |
| 4 | Conn which until recently was the only British case in which a superior court had been asked to rule on the validity of tax assessments in the light of the purpose to which some of the tax-revenue was to be applied . |
| 5 | The ruling , the first occasion on which a constitutional amendment had been overturned in the court , marked a defeat for Ershad . |
| 6 | On the morning of 9 November , Sydney sighted Emden and pinned her to the shore of Keeling Island , one of the Cocos group , on which a German party had been landed to destroy essential cable and wireless installations connecting Australian , African and Indian telegraph systems . |