Example sentences of "[Wh det] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 2 | An important component of this religious renewal was its individualistic orientation ; it was the individual rather than the group or its activity in the world which was the subject of this religious activity . |
| 3 | One must remember that it was specifically this issue of clerical power over schools which was the nub of the controversy in the 1900–14 period . |
| 4 | This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword . |
| 5 | First was the newly energised Bedford-St Pancras route which was the first home of forty-eight four-car Class 317s . |
| 6 | Following the approach ordained in The Spiliada , the Ohio court was another available forum , having competent jurisdiction , which was the more appropriate forum for the trial of the action . |
| 7 | In the C & G advertisements an interest rate of 12.75 per cent , which was the annual flat rate , was more prominent than the APR of 13.7 per cent . |
| 8 | That rule was accepted by the Conservative Party in opposition before 1979 , and Nigel Lawson , as a junior Treasury Minister , helped to develop the targeting of M3 , the money supply measure , which was the backbone of the counter-inflationary policy of Mrs Thatcher 's first administration . |
| 9 | He saw Ras Tafari — later Haile Selassie - return from a great battle which was the beginning of a long road to Emperorship . |
| 10 | This , he contends , was achieved by the targeting of M3 , the money supply measure , which was the backbone of the counter inflationary policy of Mrs Thatcher 's first administration … |
| 11 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 12 | There seem to be three broad influences at work here : a partisan influence , which was the most powerful and consistent , plus information-based and propaganda-based influences , which declined as the election approached . |
| 13 | There were three broad influences on perceptions of Labour chances : a ‘ wishful thinking ’ ( partisan ) influence , which was the most powerful and consistent ( Labour supporters rated their party 's chances highly ) ; a pure information-based influence ( discussion , education , television viewing all lowered expectations of a Labour victory ) , which declined as the election approached ; and a propaganda-based influence ( reading rightwing papers also lowered expectations of a Labour victory ) , which also declined as the election approached . |
| 14 | Given Russia 's high latitudinal position , her short farming season , low productivity , absence of markets , and scant incentives for yield improvement in the late Tsarist period and until the advent of NEP , the natural result was a strong peasant urge to supplement agricultural income by promysly ( craft industries ) , one of which was the production and working up of flax for the kustarnyi industry . |
| 15 | Not least of which was the vast amount of food she ate — between 400lbs and 600lbs of fodder per day . |
| 16 | This army , with German backing , and supported by the Iraqi Air Force , was defeated by the men of No.4 FTS , which was the unit stationed at Habbaniya , and which was equipped with Audax and Oxford aircraft . |
| 17 | In December 1927 , while he was in the midst of his darkness , and in june 1928 when he was better , the House of Commons rejected a proposal , carried by large majorities in the Church bodies , for a new prayer book , which was the old prayer book , from the age of King Charles II , modestly revised in a pastoral spirit long after the time when it needed revision . |
| 18 | He always attended the Durham miners , gala , which was the festivity and political demonstration of the mining community , and in 1955 preached them the gala sermon by invitation of the miners . |
| 19 | He disliked the Church Assembly ( which was the forerunner of the General Synod ) and made only one speech there while he was Bishop of Durham , against the idea of recruiting people to come and be priests . |
| 20 | They had no idea , as yet , that the coming of modern translations , and the making of English into an international language , would destroy the commonness of a single text of the Bible which was the property of the simple as of the sophisticated . |
| 21 | part of the reason for this is no doubt Eliot 's hostility to ideas about ‘ social progress ’ one aspect of which was the eugenics movement . |
| 22 | After all , it we were to ask which was the more metaphysical , divine law or the psychoanalytic unconscious , some might reply , ‘ the unconscious , though not by much ’ . |
| 23 | Malcolm was really into doing good window displays for the shop , often influenced by the ones Mr Green used to do for his Vince 's Man 's Shop in Soho — which was the first boutique ever , bringing faded blue denim and hipster trousers to the British public in the fifties . |
| 24 | For most of the 1940s the core difficulty from the British point of view was the dollar shortage , which was the key to the reserve position . |
| 25 | They had danced on the night winds through the dark hours and before dawn she had flown safely home , filled with a new and fierce joy which was the warmth of Fenna 's fiery breath and the width and grace of freedom from gravity . |
| 26 | Such major changes of strategy are n't made without sacrifices , and the consequent upheavals took a certain toll at Cadbury 's , not least of which was the need to reduce the work-force . |
| 27 | It seemed to Pearce that the best way to gain his goal was to go into the Civil Service , which was the career that most of the more successful pupils from his school tended ti follow . |
| 28 | Evolutionary theory gave a natural origin to human institutions instead of the supernatural origin which was the received and legally sanctioned view in much of nineteenth-century Europe , and if institutions and ideas had a natural historical origin they could be changed in changing conditions . |
| 29 | In the same way , therefore , as they had turned to primitives for finding the opposite of capitalist relations of production , they turned to them for a form of family which was the opposite of the capitalist family . |
| 30 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |