Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Welland gave the best expert class performance in Sunday 's Sunbeam Club organised Gordon Jackson Cup trial , which was contested on a superb 12-section course at Woolmer Farm , near Liphook . |
| 2 | Aboard his recently acquired Aprilia , the Whitehall rider gave the best expert class performance in the Waterlooville Club trial , which was contested on a very difficult course at Budden 's Bank , near Chalton on Saturday . |
| 3 | The Lewis ' £9,000 dream car which was wrecked by a drink driver |
| 4 | The bread supplied by Benjamin Maulden was ‘ very indifferently baked ’ and the house surgeon was to write to him expressing the Board 's dissatisfaction — which was extended to a Mr. Bentham , whose bread was found to be underweight . |
| 5 | She was seated on the Woolpack which was tied like a saddle to her Grey Horse . |
| 6 | It was a form of devotion found not only among the learned but in prayers designed for the laity , as for instance , in another prayer recommended for lay folk at the elevation of the Host : or in the prayer , a fragment of which was carved on a church bench in Oxfordshire : Jesu for thy holy name And for thy bitter passion , Save us fro synne and shame And endles dampnacion . |
| 7 | Considerably more sacrilegious , albeit in a flippant way , is Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , " Of the cunt , which was made with a spade " , in which God is presented as having forgotten to give Eve genitals and then allowing the Devil to remedy this , on the condition that he neither adds to nor takes anything away from God 's creature . |
| 8 | One early example of a pre-packaged product was JS own-brand bloater fish paste which was made to a special recipe in the firm 's Blackfriars factory from 1891 until the Second World War . |
| 9 | Announcing the arrest , which was made during a raid on the offices of an Imhausen-Chemie subsidiary in Bochum near Cologne , the Cologne state prosecutor , Holger Presiendanz , said that Hippenstiel-Imhausen was " strongly suspected " of a " significant personal role in the planning and building " of the Rabta plant ( for previous report on the investigation see p. 36477 ) . |
| 10 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 11 | Owners Rea C Richardson benefit from his onboard beet harvester jack , which was made from an ex-Moreau ram with home-brewed framing . |
| 12 | And I think as far as the critics are concerned , John Maynard-Smith may allow me to adapt erm the critical misjudgement of all time , which was made by a Dublin Professor when The Origin of Species first came out , which you will remember no doubt |
| 13 | Then , when Uncle Guy arrived from Dublin he brought them a present , an enormous box of chocolates which was made like a chest or jewel box with trays that pulled out like small drawers , containing different foil-wrapped shapes . |
| 14 | Speaking at the annual speech day , Nigel Thorne , headmaster of Rydal school in Colwyn , said he was increasingly concerned at what was happening to the education system which was faced with a ‘ testing monolith ’ . |
| 15 | But before the Salvation Army took it over , it was a , a Borough Council property , which was leased to a f Jewish company in London , and they used to send a manager , at this lodging house and these were then let nightly at about ten pence per night . |
| 16 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
| 17 | The narrowness of the ledge of the rock on which the castle stands dictated the shape of the great hall , 125 feet in length , which was built to a unique bowed plan in three sections and is perhaps one of the most interesting features of the castle . |
| 18 | Granby House is a seven-storey building of 1908 which was built as a cotton warehouse . |
| 19 | ‘ At Sedgebrook , ’ wrote Willingham Franklin Rawnsley , ‘ is a farmhouse which was built as a manor house by Sir John Markham when he was Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench . |
| 20 | At the head of the municipal square is the City Hall ( Câmara Municipal ) which was built as a private residence for the Conde ( Count ) de Carvalhal at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | This was the origin of the ‘ Crewe ’ locomotive type , which was built on a large scale after the transfer of the GJR works to Crewe , in the planning of which Buddicom was deeply involved . |
| 22 | As I near the end of my year in office , I am pleased to report there is no doubt in my mind that we have a very stable Institute which was built on a strong foundation by our predecessors . |
| 23 | The plaintiff was at all material times the beneficial owner of Caliban , a house in Tucker 's Town in Bermuda , which was built on an oblong-shaped area of land measuring 2.85 acres fronting onto the ocean . |
| 24 | Here is an example of an introduction which was written in a rush to get something down on paper . |
| 25 | ‘ The Discarded Image is a book which was written by a man with an unusual sensitivity to the differences between past and present . |
| 26 | Lucky Jim is too confident a book to be called angry , its predominating mood a scorn for a stuffy old order about to be swept away ; but some of Amis 's later novels , such as Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , which was written by a sexagenarian , fizzle with fury . |
| 27 | Some of these hopes are illustrated in this letter , which was written by an English teacher in one of the Education Workshops . |
| 28 | Under the National government this was followed " by the " means test " , a deeply resented measure which was operated with a lack of compassion by many local Public Assistance Committees . |
| 29 | On another machine I had , which was operated in a rather dusty atmosphere , an intermittent failure report from the operating system seemed totally inexplicable except for a light layer of dust which had been deposited over everything inside the system box . |
| 30 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |