Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [vb past] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Grand Met how it justified the rent increases being imposed . |
| 2 | And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you . |
| 3 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 4 | Indeed , these were , according to some local historians , Bayonne 's very best years , when it became a trading centre of European stature . |
| 5 | The existing building dates from the 1740s when it became an oil mill for linseed In 1808 it was bought by the British Copper Company and was used for producing copper sheets In 1860 it was purchased by the East London Water Company and rebuilt as a pumping station . |
| 6 | The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams . |
| 7 | He was president of the Newcastle Chemical Society ( 1871–2 ) and a vice-president until 1882 , when it became the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry , in which he continued to take an active interest . |
| 8 | Later , the East Anglian Regional Advisory Council for Further Education ( EARAC ) was established in 1947 , with its secretariat provided by the Norfolk LEA , and the work of the Regional Consultative Council was absorbed into EARAC in 1953 when it became the Adult Education Sub-Committee of the East Anglian body . |
| 9 | The Iraqi authorities also claimed that a bomb from an RAF Tornado had killed up to 130 people and wounded 78 when it hit an apartment block and market place in the small town of Fallouja , west of Baghdad , on Feb. 14 . |
| 10 | Indeed , it may be that the collapse of the MI5/MI6 informer network in Germany and other European countries restored the IRA 's confidence in its ability to resume operations on the Continent from March 1987 , when it placed a car bomb at Rheindalen . |
| 11 | But somehow the BNF pull in the parliamentary crowds , as they did last autumn , when it organised a heavyweight panel including Con Allday , managing director of British Nuclear fuels Limited , Ned Franklin , director of the National Nuclear Corporation , Sir Walter Marshall , chairman of the CEGB , and Lewis Roberts , not only director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell , but now also chairman of the recently formed Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive directorate . |
| 12 | Only a few of our members who have these qualifications are able to help , and we therefore rely heavily on ‘ friends from other churches ’ , a poor phrase when applied to such friends as Gilbert Clark , Duncan Curr and David Wright ; and the phrase also acquired a different meaning this year when it included the Rev. John Page , Minister of Dunlop , and his wife Janie , who daily travelled many Scriptural ‘ second miles ’ from their church to join us . |
| 13 | They called the room where it hung the Centaur Room . |
| 14 | Their castle at Châtellerault controlled the strategically vital Tours-Poitiers road at the point where it crossed the River Vienne . |
| 15 | The main aim of policy was — as it still is in many poor countries — to take rubbish away from places where it posed a health hazard , and ( to a lesser extent ) to make sure that waste sites were properly run . |