Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No consensus was reached on G-24 aid to the Soviet Union , which was particularly opposed by the United States Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 2 | PLAN has agreed with the Ugandan Government to begin its operations in the Luwero district , an area which was particularly devastated by the civil war which ended in 1986 . |
| 3 | The reduced value of trade was not confined to imports ; the fall in these was parallelled , although not precisely , by a decline in cloth exports , which was particularly marked at Bristol . |
| 4 | The over-riding reason for the fall was the reduction in the working week which was particularly marked from 1966 onwards and was disproportionately large among female workers who were constituting a bigger share of the total working population . |
| 5 | ‘ Even agents in London and the South-East , which was particularly hard-hit during the recession , have reported a busy December . |
| 6 | Our particular role may be to take over consciously and with some degree of awareness that which was formerly done on a more instinctive level . |
| 7 | Rowland Compliance Testing [ which was formerly known as Power Certification Limited ] has established a substantial portfolio of quality blue-chip customers throughout the country , and is poised for substantial growth . |
| 8 | Place Barn , Wilmington , Polegate , East Sussex Place Barn , Wilmington , is flint-walled barn which was formerly attached to Priory Farm at the head of the hill that leads out of the village to the South Downs . |
| 9 | The Joint Transport Operation ( with Oxfam ) which was formerly located in Desse , capital of the region of Walo in the north of the country , was relocated in Addis Ababba during the latter stages of the civil war . |
| 10 | The assessors chose 116a for their schedules which , although it had a flat elevation to Parliament Street , had the large internal quadrangle which was ultimately incorporated into the executed building . |
| 11 | He disputed the idea that Latin American agrarian structures were ’ feudalist' , arguing that they too existed in dependent relation to a capitalism which was ultimately supported by their very primitivism . |
| 12 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 13 | In the kingdoms of western Europe there was a traditional obligation on all free men to answer the king 's call to arms , the arrière-ban , when the kingdom was attacked : a right which was rarely invoked in our period , since it produced a cumbersome and inefficient force , which could not be kept long in the field . |
| 14 | They did n't go into the kitchen , but into the front parlour which was rarely used on weekdays . |
| 15 | The City council of Amsterdam has instructed a New York lawyer to investigate the possibilities for legal action against Daniel Goldreyer , the restorer of Barnett Newman 's ‘ Who 's afraid of red , yellow and blue III ’ which was badly damaged with a Stanley-knife in 1986 . |
| 16 | In particular need of repair are the east and west sides , and the roof , which was badly damaged in the storms of 1987 and 1989 . |
| 17 | In December 1917 Malcolm was given command ( as major-general ) of the 66th division , which was badly mauled in the great German offensive launched by Erich Ludendorff in March 1918 . |
| 18 | The September 27 show took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum , situated in downtown LA , which was badly hit in the April riots . |
| 19 | Sir Wyn also promised that the Government would provide whatever cash assistance was necessary for action at Llandudno General Hospital , which was badly hit by the floods . |
| 20 | Sir Wyn also gave an undertaking that the government would provide whatever cash assistance was necessary for action at Llandudno General Hospital , which was badly hit by the floods . |
| 21 | The use of a widely understood and increasingly popular language which was neither identified with any one tribal group nor with the colonial power was a great asset to the nationalists . |
| 22 | The visitor came from Surrey and brought with him a bat , which was duly presented to me — my first cricket bat ! |
| 23 | He said that the post would be advertised , which was duly done at some cost to the public purse . |
| 24 | Tom Jones and Duff argued for resignation , and Lady Astor helped to sway Dawson to the same line , which was duly reflected in The Times leader of Monday morning . |
| 25 | It transferred its cargo to an Irish tug , the Marita Ann , which was duly seized by the Irish Navy . |
| 26 | A joint congressional committee drew up a common version of the two bills which was duly approved by the two chambers , and was signed into law on Sept. 22 by President Fidel Ramos . |
| 27 | Combs were made by cutting the tines on the edge , or edges if double-sided , of a flat sheet of bone , which was normally strengthened by one or two ribs fixed along the edge or centre by iron rivets . |
| 28 | Pike , as I expected , confirmed that this was work which was normally done by the statistical clerks . |
| 29 | But the most common confusion is between the dependence thesis and the no difference thesis , which was briefly discussed in the last chapter . |
| 30 | One was the outrage caused by the Anatomy Act , which was briefly described in chapter one ; the other was the onset of cholera , beginning in 1832 , the year in which the hated Act came into force . |