Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun] [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were the folk whose fathers had fought in 1914–18 . |
| 2 | The solitary willow , the gutted brook : these were the things which Clare picked out as the climax of his catalogue of casualties in this , one of his finest poems . |
| 3 | These ideals , knightly rather than clerical , were the ones which Richard learned to share , though at the end , as he lay dying , he was perhaps less certain of them than William Marshal . |
| 4 | The limitations of this class were clear : they were the opportunists whose sense of failure and sense of grievance could be nicely manipulated through their sense of German identity and nationalism . |
| 5 | The group of children with symptoms of vomiting ( 27 of 29 ) or failure to thrive ( two of 29 ) were the group whose problems were primarily due to regurgitation . |
| 6 | These were the people whose paths had crossed Riddle 's , those whose lives would be affected one way or another by the difference between Riddle living and Riddle dead . |
| 7 | In chapter nine of The Form Rolle uses this Jesus prayer to recapitulate the whole progress in love he has so far described — it becomes as it were the tool which shapes and conveys his understanding of redemption : The prose is orchestrated to a climax . |
| 8 | They were the crowd whose heads you could not see over . |
| 9 | Defective windows were a risk which window cleaners should guard against . |
| 10 | Happy was the proprietor whose cinema was described as a ‘ parlour-like place under cooling fans ’ . |
| 11 | It was the expression which Bao Dai had used in June 1950 although , as the Americans reported He understood our delicate position since France was our friend in Europe' . |
| 12 | Tacit consent was the tactic which Locke used in his Second Treatise to escape from the dilemma of reconciling his basic principle — " The Liberty of Man , in Society , is to be under no other Legislative Power , but that established , by consent , in the Commonwealth … " ( 22 , p. 301 ) — with the desirability of a stable and durable system of government which would not have to be submitted to the people for constant re-endorsement . |
| 13 | This was the evidence which Marx and Engels required in order to show that society has not always been based on private property held by isolated nuclear families . |
| 14 | She found that she was bringing more and more discipline to her writing for the Clarion , and thinking of this she noticed that it was the Clarion which Dr Neil was reading , or pretending to read , for her new awareness told her that , too . |
| 15 | Sheer mental power was the ability which Coleridge possessed which enabled him to accomplish this feat , as he does in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , when , sitting in his cottage he takes in the ‘ Sea , hill , and wood This populous village ! … with all the numberless goings on of life . ’ |
| 16 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 17 | It was the court which Benjamin Haydon appeared before and ordered his release . |
| 18 | 160 , had clarified the meaning of the word ‘ delegate ’ in the present context this was the concept which Sellers L.J . |
| 19 | What was new was the diversity which people were finding by the end of the century : many of the greatest preachers remained ‘ orthodox ’ including Spurgeon and his many protégés or Wesleyans like Dinsdale T. Young and F. Luke Wiseman . |
| 20 | Kings Norton was aware of the quality of the people with whom he worked — Christopherson , Richmond , Hornby … — and felt that Sir Lionel Russell was the person whose judgment he most admired . |
| 21 | American woman Diane Schaeffer was the case which actress Catherine Cussack read up on for her role as Carmel . |
| 22 | In both instances it was the sister whose earnings had been substantially restricted or reduced . |
| 23 | An example of this was the abuse which Harvey received when he demonstrated the system of blood circulation in the body because what he had discovered was not in accordance with what Galen had said . |
| 24 | But it was the peace which people remembered , rather than the quarrel . |
| 25 | One was the UK whose position could be simplified , hopefully not too crudely , as follows . |
| 26 | This was the union which Edinburgh male printers had been " coaxing , bribing even fighting " women to join . |
| 27 | This was the inheritance which Nicholas II ( 1894–1917 ) pledged to uphold when he ascended the throne . |
| 28 | Depending on favours for a substantial part of one 's livelihood was the vulnerability which Mary Leapor was reluctant to assume . |
| 29 | Most striking of all was the constitution which Leopold presented to his subjects in September 1782 . |
| 30 | Equally significant for the political equilibrium was the rapport which de Gaulle and Adenauer had with each other . |