Example sentences of "was [adj] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of doing the repairs was economic loss which was not recoverable in a negligence action , except within the Hedley Byrne principle , or on the unique proximity of Junior Books v Veitchi . |
| 2 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |
| 3 | * It is also possible to put presuppositions into a sentence by just rearranging the parts , as in the following example ( called a CLEFT ) , based on " Senecan influence brought blood to Renaissance tragedy " : It was Senecan influence which brought blood to Renaissance tragedy . |
| 4 | Labour Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , who obtained the document , said it was clear that it was political will which would determine whether the Highlands and Islands are successful . |
| 5 | Once again AFHQ was issuing signals which appeared to contradict one another . |
| 6 | It was sound advice which benefited everyone . ’ |
| 7 | In a few years more , he was to decide that it was German blood which ran most compellingly in his veins . |
| 8 | It , it really was different accounting which is hardly comparable . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , there was constant stress which tested her reserves to the limit . |
| 10 | well if it is n't yeah , if we , if and I thought it was national account which means it 's a multi-locational site which it is |
| 11 | Thus , there seems little doubt that it was bubonic plague which struck Chesterfield in 1586–87 . |
| 12 | The rental of such an office could not have been great , but it was little things which often had a quite disproportionate impact upon burgh councillors , for such a move would give tangible proof that the party which could arrange it had the ear of government and could thus effect other , and perhaps more far-reaching , changes . |
| 13 | Still , it was pretty plain what she meant . |
| 14 | This was unusual behaviour which , unfortunately for him , was noted by the driver . |
| 15 | It was as though she had spent the past twenty-two years imprisoned in a shell , and had now broken free of it , and was tasting sensations which she had never dreamed possible . |
| 16 | There was great anticipation what with Macca v Wimbledon and Dorigo v Holland in mind , but in the end Dorigo 's attempt was blocked and hoofed off upfield . |
| 17 | Although in some dioceses individual families came close to obtaining a monopoly over the episcopate , in others there was considerable rivalry which came to a head at the time of episcopal elections . |
| 18 | The students targeted Masol principally because his government , backed by the communist majority of Supreme Soviet deputies , was blocking legislation which would disentangle the Ukraine 's July sovereignty declaration from contradictory constitutional articles . |
| 19 | A cleanliness CAT team discovered the front desk was blocking rooms which had not been cleaned , and groups were arriving to claim them between shifts , so communication between housekeeping and the front desk was improved . |
| 20 | The story quoted him as saying there was medical evidence which showed that there had been abuse . |
| 21 | Supposing that natural selection was rewarding behaviour which benefited the group . |
| 22 | Although communists were a nuisance it was fascist anti-semitism which caused the real headache ; if this were outlawed then the problem would be removed . |
| 23 | Indeed , it was informal sanctions which were relied on until very recently in policing fraudulent and undesirable practices in the City of London . |
| 24 | In my class of infants , a little five-year-old girl was busy drawing what she told me was a ‘ picture of God ’ . |
| 25 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 26 | E was enteric fever which B got shortly afterward — or Eee-By-God-I've-Got-a-Stomach-ache . |
| 27 | From the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s it was increasing inequality which was to dominate the changing geography of manufacturing , and indeed of employment more generally . |
| 28 | The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue . |
| 29 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 30 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that since it was the business of estate agents to act for numerous principals , several of whom might be competing and whose interests would conflict , a term was to be implied in the contract with such an agent that he was entitled to act for other principals selling similar properties and to keep confidential information obtained from each principal and that the agent 's fiduciary duty was determined by the contract of agency ; that since the plaintiff knew that the defendants would be acting for other vendors of comparable properties and would receive confidential information from them , the agency contract could not have included terms requiring them to disclose that confidential information to him , or precluding them from acting for rival vendors , or from trying to earn commission on the sale of another vendor 's property ; and that , accordingly , although the purchaser 's interest in acquiring both properties was material information which could have affected negotiations for the sale price of the plaintiff 's house , the defendants were not in breach of their duty in failing to inform the plaintiff of the agreement to buy the adjacent house , which was confidential to the owner thereof , and the defendants ' financial interest in that sale did not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty ( post , pp. 941A–B , G–H , 942A–B , G — 943B ) . |