Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting was reported to have seen differences between Syria , Iraq , Sudan and Libya on the one hand , which were pushing for a more intransigent Arab League position , and the Gulf states on the other , which spoke out for " international legitimacy " ( according to Radio Monte Carlo on April 30 ) . |
| 2 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 3 | The polyps began to disappear shortly after I introduced some large blue mushroom polyps which were growing on a piece of dead coral . |
| 4 | Morgan v. Russell & sons ( 1909 D.C. ) concerned the sale of some slag and cinders which were lying on a particular piece of ground . |
| 5 | With the cunning of the insane , he closed his hand over it , lay still and listened to the footsteps which were approaching at a run . |
| 6 | He was wearing an open-necked shirt , and his blond hair flopped over his eyes , which were smiling with a lazy insolence . |
| 7 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 8 | The earliest suggestion of the regulation of commerce applies to Fordwich ( Kent ) in AD 675 ; Fordwich is higher up the River Stour and about 5 km from Canterbury which was developing as a royal and ecclesiastical centre from c . |
| 9 | Her head , which was rotating at a different speed and a contrary motion to her brushing arm , reminded him of a duck in a shooting gallery . |
| 10 | Canon Mackenzie by upbringing and temperament belonged to the paternal age , which was drawing to a close , and " politics " was alien to him . |
| 11 | The two men waved to him again and one of them pointed to a table which was labouring under a monstrous number of bottles . |
| 12 | A Congress boycott of parliament in support of these demands , backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party which was protesting about a telephone tapping issue , left the lower house , the Lok Sabha , inquorate on March 5 . |
| 13 | And neither did the cacophony of exasperated hoots which was soaring to a crescendo . |
| 14 | Ronni reached for her bag , which was lying on a nearby armchair . |
| 15 | There was also a large cat , which was sitting on a chair and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 16 | With a rush of fury she picked up the J-cloth which was sitting in a pool of greasy water at the bottom of the sink . |
| 17 | But when they reached the drawing room , the only people there were Mrs Denham and Martin , and the baby , which was sitting in a high chair . |
| 18 | The thump of the ball jerked the pram , which was standing on a slight slope . |
| 19 | She stole a white porcelain cup , edged with gold , which was standing on a table beneath the window . |
| 20 | Philippe Busquin , the Minister of Social Affairs in the outgoing government which was continuing in a caretaker capacity , was elected party leader on Jan. 25 . |
| 21 | By the time he had climbed out of the valley and over the pass on a day which was fretting for a thunderstorm , he was boiling with the need to act . |
| 22 | The posh end of the market was dominated by new-wave consumer journalism which was turning into a grotesque parody of the ‘ lifestyle ’ politics the Right-Ons had pioneered . |
| 23 | And there was still the absurd question of protocol involved in who should occupy the Presidential Palace in Saigon which was turning into a long-running farce and one that was unlikely to be resolved in Bao Dai 's favour as long as de Lattre was High Commissioner . |
| 24 | There was a delicious smell wafting from a pink hyacinth which was growing in a glass on the table at his side . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the manufacturing sector , principally textiles , which was suffering from a severe shortage of labour , was expected to take advantage of the Madagascan government 's decision to offer incentives to foreign investors . |
| 26 | I think what were dealing within a programme like this is very much the tip of the iceberg |
| 27 | Quick as a bleeding flash she was , the way she bunged herself head first into that little black job and stopped that poor bugger what was bleeding like a bloody stuck pig , afore any of your lot got here . |
| 28 | Ernest Bevin was in the chair when Vyshinsky inquired what was happening concerning a peace settlement with Japan and proposed that the assembled foreign ministers should proceed with it . |