Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armand Roy , were to be deployed in 10 observation posts on both sides of the " walls of sand " which Morocco had built since 1981 to enclose the two-thirds of the Western Sahara which was under its control . |
| 2 | The King had acquired , in the time of Richard II , an authenticating instrument , the Signet , which was under his own control and was wielded by his personal secretary . |
| 3 | We were all being swept into a maelstrom of energy which was beyond anyone 's ability to control or even explain . |
| 4 | Corporal Rose had tried to fix the car but discovered a bent track rod end which was beyond his capabilities . |
| 5 | Dr Neil had not meant to consummate his love for McAllister , but having begun to heal and reassure her he had started something on its way which was beyond his control , or McAllister 's either . |
| 6 | However , a government offer to purchase the debt at 47 cents on the US dollar , which was below its current secondary market trading price , was felt to be an obstacle to many banks agreeing to sell . |
| 7 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 8 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 9 | Innocent was consecrated pope on the feast of St Peter 's Chair or Throne ( 22 February ) , which was for him deeply symbolic . |
| 10 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 11 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 12 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 13 | He had also a strong sense of humour , which was to her mind a great asset . |
| 14 | What happened was that we allowed our critics to feed in information about prisons which was to our detriment . |
| 15 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 16 | Instead of simply proclaiming " art for art 's sake " they attempted to create a body of work which was on its own terms self-sufficient , with its own order and tradition , capable of embodying and communicating its own values . |
| 17 | The privately-owned Hawker Hunter , which was on its way to Merseyside , exploded in a ball of flames when it hit the ground . |
| 18 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 19 | Which was on your own world , in the action against the Ork pirates . ’ |
| 20 | Sir Alec Cairncross , himself a distinguished practitioner of the Keynesian policies of the 1950s and 1960s , ruefully recalled in 1981 that the standing of economists , which was at its peak just after the war , was now back ‘ at its pre-war low ’ . |
| 21 | The Charles Bal , which was at its closest to the volcano at this time , reported : . |
| 22 | This was not quite all that was required for the smooth working of the world economy which was at its height in 1914 . |
| 23 | She seemed so sanguine that he started to enjoy his leave and they all three went off to see Mona in Jermyn Street , who greeted them with her usual generous hospitality , very little of which was at her or their expense , but who had not seen Charles since his transformation from 2nd Lieutenant to Guardsman . |
| 24 | She lost the argument , which was about her reservation , which was for berth No. 7 in English which the conductor obstinately read as 1 in French . |
| 25 | Both disrupt the rules and regulations of respectability , which was about nothing if it was not about controlling the social status of women . |
| 26 | ‘ I find that her refusal does not cover the emergency which has now arisen which was outside her contemplation and the contemplation of others at the time she expressed her opposition to a blood transfusion . |
| 27 | ‘ We had to move home because I could n't bear to pass his school which was beside our house in Well Street , ’ said Joan . |
| 28 | It alone could authenticate documents with the Great Seal , which was in its custody , and issue orders that required full legal backing , such as grants of land , appointments to offices , and treaties with foreign powers . |
| 29 | He rose with the intention of going to light the lamp , which was in its usual place in the centre of the table . |
| 30 | She took out her inhaler , which was in her pocket without its safety cap on , and used it . |