Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh det] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 2 | In support of the proprietary argument the plaintiffs resorted to an analogy with the position of a trustee in bankruptcy , whose right and duty it was to get in everything which had been owned by the bankrupt , including his business documents . |
| 3 | Everything which had been kept hygienically wrapped was ripped open and thrown into the tray . |
| 4 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 5 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 6 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 7 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 8 | Julia was aware of something which had been planned beforehand yet it did not discomfort her . |
| 9 | Something which had been out of place ? |
| 10 | Later that day , in the early afternoon , Matey was instructing McAllister in how to knit — something which had been left out of her previous education . |
| 11 | The results were interpreted as giving a continued endorsement to the efforts of the non-party President Georgios Vassiliou to pursue UN-backed talks with the Turkish Cypriots — something which had been the key issue of the electoral campaigns . |
| 12 | Or had something which had been brought back from Romania in another golf bag been fitted inside it ? |
| 13 | One example was at London Zoo when a polar bear called Brumas died at the age of nine because he ate something which had been thrown into his enclosure . |
| 14 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 15 | On these canvases the visible is no longer an opening but something which has been abandoned and left behind . |
| 16 | Archaeologists are beginning to realize this and are looking at alternative approaches , seeing sites as part of the landscape and related to one another , something which has been advocated by students of leys and Earth Mysteries for many years . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a shame that we are being penalised for something which has been done by the football club , but there does not seem to be anything we can do about it . |
| 18 | Sometimes the object of the panic is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough , but suddenly appears in the limelight . |
| 19 | Gloucester was ideally placed to satisfy this need — something which has been underemphasized since Kendall 's romantic portrait of him as an isolated northern figure . |
| 20 | Gloucester does not feature at all , something which has been read as a sign of Woodville control of the council . |
| 21 | A similar bitterness underlines Hopkin 's words to the syndicate : ‘ You wanted to play with something which has been attempted with the most desperate suicidal intent of others . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 23 | Something which has been added , especially at the end of a book , eg bibliography , list of references . |
| 24 | Gloucester was ideally placed to satisfy this need — something which has been underemphasized since Kendall 's romantic portrait of him as an isolated northern figure . |
| 25 | Gloucester does not feature at all , something which has been read as a sign of Woodville control of the council . |
| 26 | M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required . |
| 27 | This is something which has been drawn to my attention on many occasions and would she not agree that there are many of us who very much regret the fact that so many parents er are find it difficult to exercise their right to vote , because there is so much opposition er at a local level from officials |
| 28 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 29 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 30 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |