Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through his instruction he was partly responsible for the 1649 Act Concerning Religion which was the earliest legislation in the English-speaking world that explicitly guaranteed toleration to all Christians . |
| 2 | Yes my Lord er as soon as we went to the main bedroom which was the back bedroom at the same time as as that bedroom door opened , so the second team consisting of er P C P C would have gone into the second smaller bedroom and at the same time as we went in er P C and P C job er was to cover our backs in case of anybody in er the kitchen or the living area , the living room area . |
| 3 | The Wickhams live in the clockhouse which was the old brewery and laundry for the big house opposite . |
| 4 | And it was going downhill over the hard packed snow which was the worst bit , with me acting as a brake , hauling on a rope to keep the sledge from running forward into the horse 's heels . |
| 5 | There is a Titanic bear based on a teddy which survived that disaster in 1912 and a Mister Whoppit bear which was the only object to re-surface when Donald Campbell 's boat disintegrated while he was trying to break the world water speed record on Lake Coniston in 1967 . |
| 6 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 7 | So having settled on Road , moved to Lane which was the nearest school , still in the juniors but by then our age would be nearly eleven , time to move onto a bigger school . |
| 8 | In conjunction with the analysis of the information obtained through these surveys , the data obtained in the earlier study will also be reanalysed to consider other aspects of the process of recruitment than the issue of gender discrimination which was the principal focus of that project . |
| 9 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |
| 10 | First was the newly energised Bedford-St Pancras route which was the first home of forty-eight four-car Class 317s . |
| 11 | The conclusion is that Nkrumah would have otherwise won by the two-thirds majority which was the general election pattern . |
| 12 | Thus , the reforms started a course which was the precise opposite of the emperor 's intention — moves to resist centralization , indeed , to secure greater decentralization , a process which ultimately led to the division of the empire in a Dual Monarchy , and ultimately its disintegration in the first World War . |
| 13 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 14 | They were pronounced ‘ guilty ’ even before their arrest , let alone the trial which was the usual brief process typical of Chinese legal justice . |
| 15 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |
| 16 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 17 | Evolutionary theory gave a natural origin to human institutions instead of the supernatural origin which was the received and legally sanctioned view in much of nineteenth-century Europe , and if institutions and ideas had a natural historical origin they could be changed in changing conditions . |
| 18 | As it was spinning which was the first textile process to be mechanised , it was women 's work which was the first to be taken away by machinery , threatened by the water frame in 1769 and by Hargreaves ' spinning jenny in 1770 , even before Crompton 's mule came into use in the 1780s . |
| 19 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 20 | I mean when one starts to , to scratch the surface , let me just give one example I mean we feel er I M R O fails on on its membership I mean the fact that you had Bishopsgate Investment Management which was the beneficial owner was an organisation in Liechtenstein . |
| 21 | Er , on the first day that I joined this Council which was the first day that you joined er Councillor . |
| 22 | In day to day matters it was , she says , a democratic outfit — ‘ everyone had their say ’ — and this no doubt was in large part responsible for the exuberance , the wild unpredictability which was the driving force of the band in its last incarnation . |
| 23 | Follow the steps down to the cellar which was the original first floor of the 12C house . |
| 24 | Distrust of the motives of the National government prevented the Labour Party and the Left from supporting measures such as rearmament and conscription which were the logical outcome of the failure of " appeasement . |
| 25 | The break-up with Rigby was complicated because the couple were at the core of a group which were the direct forerunners of The Wedding Present . |
| 26 | These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century . |
| 27 | It was the maize crop which was the chief victim of the 1988 American drought . |
| 28 | You called the half-mortals out of Andernesse , and broke the spell-wall which was the last and greatest protection against the dark . |
| 29 | Social Worker : It may be wrong , but you could n't then make your body not a body which was the only way then you could make yourself not experience some pleasure . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was only because of the narrow range of human activities which fell within the orbit of the ECSC that the member states had been willing to cede potentially substantial powers to the body which was the fundamental supranational element of the new organisation . |