Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the other half supported the society 's worthy aims ; one wealthy admirer even offered a donation of $400,000 , which had to be declined as outside donations were apparently prohibited according to the terms under which SINA had been established . |
| 2 | Prosecutions for offences defined under the Merchant Shipping Acts had almost uniformly failed , and shipowners had escaped altogether from the provisions of the Employers ' Liability Act 1880 in which employers had been made responsible for insuring employees against the risks of their calling . |
| 3 | There was no decisive evidence from examination of the surface , from analysis or from radiography , of which technique had been used . |
| 4 | Artemis asked , as she stood admiring her fifteenth birthday present , a stunning looking dark brown thoroughbred gelding which Jenkins had been instructed to lead up outside the house as a surprise . |
| 5 | There are other omissions , too , which Purcell did not make good , quite apart from the dances which Shedlock noted were missing — the overture , for one . |
| 6 | Which Doyle knew was not the case , but this was a tight community , tight as a drum ; they looked after their own . |
| 7 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 8 | The moderate Anglicanism for which Wilkins stood is sometimes described as ‘ latitudinarian , ’ to indicate a breadth of mind and an attitude of religious toleration , at variance with the demands of puritan enthusiasts , whose overbearing self-assurance on the finer points of doctrine could be distasteful . |
| 9 | Indeed , he was able to forecast accurately which women would develop the disease merely by knowing which midwife had been in attendance . |
| 10 | Jardine 's concern that this was not necessarily the best procedure , given that the specimens might be subject to decay , proved the case when several of the boxes , which Prince had been forced to break open , were found to contain moths and mildew . |
| 11 | Beneath a vaulted whitewashed ceiling and surrounded by strange blocks and squares which artists said were ‘ pictures , ’ the playwright , Vaclav Havel , met the world 's press . |
| 12 | There was no clear indication of which group had assisted in his escape , with reports attributing a motive variously to the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , the left-wing December 20 ( M-20 ) guerrillas , or the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) , of which Gaitán had been a commander , and which was believed to have been behind a number of bombings since the US invasion . |
| 13 | The forces of Theuderic which Gregory thought were present at Vézeronce may have been those of Theodoric , angered by the murder of his grandson . |
| 14 | In the absence of the Orkney guidelines , she asked to be told which guidelines had been used , and whether these had ever been placed before the Island 's Social Work Committee for their approval . |
| 15 | When work can no longer be taken for granted nor can leisure , and this , in turn , calls into question the hedonistic routine on which rock had been based . |
| 16 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |
| 17 | Roots and branches speak of plant-life and of the gods which anthropology stressed were totemically associated with it . |
| 18 | Mr Rifkind was opening a two day defence debate which Labour said was being rushed through before cuts in next months budget . |
| 19 | The government agreed to press on with devolution , and also to advance direct elections to the European Parliament , to which Labour had been hostile , while the Local Authority Works Bill , perhaps Labour 's last instalment of socialism , was watered down . |
| 20 | The two English ladies , they explained , had had a most regrettable , a most serious disagreement , during which voices had been raised and charges of murder , yes , murder , had been uttered . |
| 21 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 22 | But a kid with Uncle Mosse and his house in his background , a house in which murder had been done . |
| 23 | He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating . |
| 24 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 25 | The idea which Inglis expounded is that any hole or sharp re-entrant in a material causes the stress in that material to be increased locally . |
| 26 | The final , symbolic point on which Branson relented was in giving Oldfield an increased royalty on all future sales of Tubular Bells . |
| 27 | The thought of an immediate confrontation with Jake was not one which Shiona had been particularly relishing . |
| 28 | As the warmth of the afternoon lessened , and the sun moved lower in the sky , and the Saturday afternoon noises of lawnmowers and children 's shouts gave way to the tranquillity of the evening , the quiet tenderness with which Johnny had been content until then gave way to a growing passion . |
| 29 | Of course , the Bath was not the only order of Christian chivalry into which Ceauşescu had been admitted . |
| 30 | The only new thing I could add was the prison bit , and Mrs McDougall had not told the girls anything about the offence of which Ewen had been convicted . |