Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun prp] [vb past] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forces of Theuderic which Gregory thought were present at Vézeronce may have been those of Theodoric , angered by the murder of his grandson . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The archaic heritage which Freud postulated was innate in all of humanity , not just the Jews , and is of phylogenetic origin ; it is not the same as the ontogenetic conflicts of the individual , although it is analogous to such conflicts in the way its effects are to be grasped and understood . |
| 5 | The cell , although uncomfortable and oppressive , made for a haven of quiet and stillness within which Bernice had been able to calm and draw out the traumatized girl . |
| 6 | The Lucullan excesses which Hefner promised were all in the mind , at any rate as long as the Fifties lasted . |
| 7 | The kingdom which Euric created was substantial . |
| 8 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 9 | Some half-way point would have to be found , Wright said , which Berle believed was British policy all along . |
| 10 | Subsequently the remnants of Rigunth 's treasure , for which Waddo had been responsible , and which Desiderius had secured , fell into his hands . |
| 11 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 12 | Fundamental to the thinking of this comparatively small group of people was the ease and skill with which Israel had been able to exert its will , control dissent , and remove local leadership as soon as its challenge to the authorities necessitated this . |
| 13 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 14 | Then he quoted a letter which Rothermere had been foolish enough to write : |
| 15 | They had seen no tracks and sighted nothing in the land below them , which Ratagan said was unusual for deer were not uncommon here as well as hill foxes and hares . |
| 16 | The specific weaknesses of British government which Chapman alleged were first that the ministries , though expected to take all key decisions , were not expected to act — to build roads , run hospitals , train teachers and so on . |
| 17 | We are therefore brought back to the problem which Weismann felt was insoluble . |
| 18 | With the coming of comprehensive education three years before , even the faint whiff of privilege attached to the Grammar School had evaporated , a fact on which Burleigh had been able to capitalize , in a mild way . |
| 19 | When questioned about a meeting to discuss the problem on Oct. 5 , at which Takeshita had been present , he claimed to have been too drunk to remember anything about it . |
| 20 | Turkey 's insistence that the refugees should be confined to the border region influenced the USA and its allies in their adoption of the " safe haven " proposal — an idea of which Özal had been one of the earliest proponents [ see p. 38127 ] . |
| 21 | A sharp contrast to the care which Chalmers received was apparent in the picture in your Sports Section today . |
| 22 | Frederick planned to attack Lombardy from the east and west simultaneously , perhaps remembering the renowned pincer campaigns for which Charlemagne had been famous . |
| 23 | That established a tidy 9–3 lead , which Pears decided was insufficient . |
| 24 | The message which Balfour sent was that , ‘ He is also of the opinion that it will be a serious danger if the Socialist Party is allowed to assume office at the present time and he thinks every means ought to be taken to avert the Parliamentary defeat which would bring them into office in your place . |
| 25 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 26 | Already Hodai was starting to adopt the mannerisms which Rostov supposed were common to teachers everywhere . |
| 27 | However , it was the first of these , the competition and relationships forged in the struggle for survival ( including the economic struggle ) , which Park argued was specific to human ecology . |
| 28 | And what Peggy said was true . |
| 29 | Euripides would probably have said that what Aeschylus did was wrong because he did it unconsciously . |
| 30 | Matey watched her , dark head bent over her work , hands busy , having mastered the basics of the task with what Matey thought was surprising speed . |