Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He nodded to the case , which was under the table , and strode out . |
| 2 | The northern area from Rijeka to Zadar was incorporated into the military frontier , which was under the control of the Habsburgs . |
| 3 | The Labour Party and the TUC remained " against any form of Means Test at all " , but they discouraged association with the NUWM which was under the control of Communists , particularly of Wal Hannington and Harry McShane . |
| 4 | Undeniably naïve , he nonetheless loved the magic which was beyond the grasp of record companies . |
| 5 | His whole approach to African problems rested indeed on the assumption that there were large reserves of political sagacity within the imperial service , and his aim was to ensure that no situation developed which was beyond the reach of that sagacity . |
| 6 | And finally , the professional " student " of English is actually elevated above authors , at least to the extent that hindsight ( like death ) enables not only the making of a complete and final assessment , but also the development of a historical understanding which was beyond the comprehension of the historical actors themselves . |
| 7 | Again , a story in Thucydides ( v.45 ) shows that the Council hears foreign ambassadors before the Assembly does ( Alcibiades persuades a Spartan delegation , after their first audience , which was with the Council , to deny at their later audience with the Assembly that they had full powers to treat with Athens ) . |
| 8 | I met Hermione and David and John Hutchinson , who was the guitarist , at a show which was with the Scaffold and The Who . |
| 9 | To this end Dicey distinguished legal sovereignty ( which was with Parliament ) from political sovereignty ( which was with the electorate ) . |
| 10 | Then Toby trudged towards the boarders ’ annexe which was for the moment his home . |
| 11 | Philip , tetrarch of the lands of Ituraea and Trachonitis which was to the north east of the Sea of Galilee . |
| 12 | The contention of the prosecution , which was to the effect that , following Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] All E.R. |
| 13 | is to be found in an obiter dictum of Dixon C.J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 117 , which was to the effect that he not been able completely to reconcile himself to the view that , if the weight of a de facto governmental authority manifested in a money demand , the money belonged to the Crown unless the payment was made under compulsion . |
| 14 | Lord Hope did not accept the first submission on behalf of the pursuers , which was to the effect that when the completed application form was sent to the building society the pursuers had accepted an offer made by the society to consider the application , as , unlike in Hunter v General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Co , 19O9SC ( HL ) 3O , the building society in the present case had not given any undertaking to consider the application and were under no obligation to do so . |
| 15 | Both half bulkheads had windows , with a hinged opening part in the bulkhead nearest the platform step , which was of the Brush folding type . |
| 16 | There was a never-ending pile of sewing in her huge , wicker sewing basket , which was of the kind in which snake-charmers keep their snakes . |
| 17 | This led to forced feedings of turkeys , and , after being voided , resultant germination of seeds of the tree which was on the verge of extinction , though this may have been exacerbated by the depredations of introduced monkeys , which take unripe fruits . |
| 18 | She was a singer in a band which was on the verge of big pop success when the group started to be messed around by the men in suits . |
| 19 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 20 | With that he pulled Dad 's shirt off the line , put it over his head and , pushing his arms through the sleeves , picked up the Bible which was on the sideboard . |
| 21 | This arose from the unsatisfactory location of the College , which was on the edge of a rapidly expanding urban area increasingly remote from any true farm practice . |
| 22 | She went to the phone , which was on the basement stairs , below the stage . |
| 23 | As I sat in front of him , I looked at a poster-sized photo which was on the wall behind him . |
| 24 | Fortunately , we had friends at Kelton , which was on the way , about an hour 's walk into the journey , so one could stop and rest . |
| 25 | The former freight line which the walkway now follows was opened by the Caledonian Railway in August 1903 , linking Newhaven and Seafield in a large loop , via Restalrig Goods and Mineral Station which was on the west side of Restalrig Road . |
| 26 | Fleury , as it happened , wanted to borrow a book and finding the door open took a few respectful steps towards where the Collector was sitting … which was on the floor , for some reason . |
| 27 | The ants in the kitchen ate the sweet jelly which was on the table . |
| 28 | For information which was on the file , there were very different approaches to letting parents or children have a look . |
| 29 | Our biggest , biggest er threat when we first come up here , was the dog muck which was on the ground . |
| 30 | Laud altered the internal lay-out of Gloucester Cathedral while dean of that diocese , and as Bishop of London he launched a nationwide appeal in the late 1620s for the repair of St Paul 's Cathedral in London , which was on the point of collapse , entrusting major restoration work to the classical architect , Inigo Jones . |