Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | whereby the feminine body was analyzed … as being thoroughly saturated with sexuality ; whereby it was integrated into the sphere of medical practices , by reason of a pathology intrinsic to it ; whereby , finally , it was placed in organic communication with the social body , whose regulated fecundity it was supposed to ensure … the Mother , with her negative image of ‘ nervous woman ’ , constituted the most visible form of this hysterization . |
| 2 | The village of Mojacar is enchanting and provokes a desire to discover more about its fascinating history — how it was conquered by the Moors and recaptured centuries later by the Catholic Kings . |
| 3 | Rather it is a socially constructed form whose ‘ influence ’ depends on how it was shaped in the first place . |
| 4 | Obviously , pollen grains are very small plant remains , and can not be seen without the aid of a microscope ; but larger remains ( macroscopic plant remains ) , such as seeds and grains , leaves , twigs , wood and charcoal also provide evidence about the vegetation that existed around a site , and can show if and how it was exploited by the people living there . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the Forest fell into the background of national history : there are infrequent glimpses of how it was affected by the general lawlessness and violence of the times . |
| 6 | Researchers must be mindful of what information meant to its creator and how it was used in the past . |
| 7 | The actor was brought up in Croydon not far from the family 's home and remembers how it was known as The Arsenic House and how local children were afraid of it . |
| 8 | They sold it , together with an earlier Forney model , two years later in October 1971 through the then well-known aircraft brokers W. S. Shackleton of Coventry , whence it was bought for the princely sum of £2,150 by airline captain David Vernon , who has owned it ever since . |
| 9 | However it was dropped in the face of the opposition expressed by the United States representative , who insisted that there be no " linkage " between the issues ; the UK also opposed the proposal . |
| 10 | Bessarabia , a part of historic Moldavia between the Prut and Dniester rivers , came under Romanian rather than Soviet control from 1918 up to 1940 and again from 1941 to 1944 , when it was incorporated into the USSR together with other Moldavian territories as a constituent republic . |
| 11 | That and other systems sales accounted for a whacking 50% of SunExpress revenues last year when it was getting off the ground , with end user sales pegged at just 35% . |
| 12 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |
| 13 | The first definite report of women taking the side of the men comes in early August , when it was announced at the quarterly general meeting of the Edinburgh Typographical Society that in the office of Neill & Co , 51 " female compositors had intimated their intention of tendering notices on Friday 5 August " alongside the men . |
| 14 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 15 | The Baath was no overnight creation , but went back to the 1940s when it was conceived by the Syrian duo , Salahuddin Bitar and Michel Aflaq , who later fostered branches in a number of Arab states . |
| 16 | The ridge survived until a storm in 1910 , when it was breached in the middle , thus causing the harbour to revert to its former double spit state . |
| 17 | Gaskell was actively involved with the firm until the 1870s , after which he remained a director until November 1890 , when it was absorbed into the United Alkali Co . |
| 18 | Lane 's Star continued till 1831 when it was absorbed by the Albion . |
| 19 | The pressure of the streets was to be of decisive importance in the liberal revolution of 1820 , when it was organized by the secret societies . |
| 20 | The last elections to the National Assembly were held in 1972 ; the Assembly term was routinely extended , most recently in November 1989 , when it was extended until the end of 1994 . |
| 21 | This is the Castello di Vicchiomaggio , the origins of which go way , way back to 957 A.D. , when it was built by the Longobards . |
| 22 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 23 | The invasion never came and the tower was left to decay until 1850 when it was renovated by the Royal Engineers and occupied by artillerymen from Leith until 1869 . |
| 24 | The High Authority , however , survived as a distinct body until 1965 when it was merged with the other supranational executives . |
| 25 | It only became a god in Hellenistic times when it was worshipped under the name ‘ Aion ’ , but that signified a sacred , eternal time which was very different from ordinary time , chronos . |
| 26 | It was combined with the similar but larger Maine-Anjou in the 1960s to form the Rouge de l'Ouest , and then virtually lost its separate identity in 1970 when it was crossed with the MRY and the German Red Pied ( itself a composite ) to become part of the combined group known as the Pie Rouge des Plaines in northern Brittany , in which the MRY is dominant . |
| 27 | This structure survived a further three decades , until 1961 , when it was subsumed by the General Practice Division ; and although the Building Surveyors Panel of the General Practice Committee gave evidence of their dissatisfaction with the syllabus structure to the Eve Committee in 1967 , it was not until 1973 that a Building Surveying Division re-emerged as an identifiable entity . |
| 28 | It was sold at auction for a derisory sum by Josef II in 1782 and from 1792 until 1934 , when it was bought by the State , it was in the Strahov Monastery . |
| 29 | A landmark in the history of Drummonds occurred on 12 January 1924 when it was bought by the Royal Bank for £958,400 . |
| 30 | Car 127 was a similar snow plough , based at Fleetwood depot , where it survived until 1960 , when it was restored for the 75th Anniversary and re-numbered 2 , its Company number . |