Example sentences of "was [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter 's favourite hunting box was Knepp Castle near West Grinstead ; so fond of it was he that he eventually seized it from William de Braose , an action hardly guaranteed to increase baronial support ; when the French invaded England in 1216 to support the barons against John , it was Sussex which bore the brunt . |
| 2 | Atoms open up a much wider range of materials ; glasses ( the first client for FABMS was Pilkingtons which studied the effects of new metallic coatings ) , paint pigments , insulators , biological materials , adhesives and industrial catalysts . |
| 3 | Or , as one of my students once put it to me , ironically , when I was still preaching this gospel , ‘ I know , Sir , it was racism what dun n it . ’ |
| 4 | In this study , the decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma over two decades was 17% which is similar to that reported from Birmingham . |
| 5 | It was Germany which had pressed hardest for more powers to be granted to the European Parliament at the expense of the national parliaments as the price for monetary union on German terms . |
| 6 | During the formative years of broadcasting it was cinema which produced the predominant images of lesbians and gay men . |
| 7 | School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 . |
| 8 | Initial oven temperature was 150° which was maintained for eight minutes ; afterwards , it was increased at a rate of 3 °/minute; up to 210°C . |
| 9 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 10 | It was UNIP which eventually took control of the first independent government winning , in January 1964 , fifty-five seats to the ANC 's ten . |
| 11 | In front of this box was seat which , when the Emperor was present in the carriage , was occupied by his mameluk . |
| 12 | In part it was geography which made this possible . |
| 13 | I know it was fear which held you back . ’ |
| 14 | The only place I could think of was Stonehenge which must have been spanking new then and as up to date as a Hilton or an out-of-town Sainsburys . |
| 15 | Of course it was England which gave cricket toAustralia . |
| 16 | The town which took Teacher of the Year to its collective satchel was Billingham which provided two of the early leaders in the race . |
| 17 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |
| 18 | Pike , as I expected , confirmed that this was work which was normally done by the statistical clerks . |
| 19 | Also favoured was IBM which Butler Bloor predicts will attempt to reconcile its mainframe and AS/400 lines with Unix . |
| 20 | The first to enjoy any degree of commercial success was SideKick which is primarily aimed at the technical user rather than the businessman . |
| 21 | So I think , if I 've got ta say , mum 's I should say was maternity which you , they were very , very political animals . |
| 22 | After their father 's death , it was Louis whose interests proved more closely aligned to Charles 's . |
| 23 | The chief city was Prague which , despite energetic later construction in the Baroque form , still possesses much of its Gothic heritage . |
| 24 | Her topic was jealousy which she attributed to parents bringing up children to think they are unlovable . |
| 25 | But in fact it was Flodden which was a significant break in the pattern of cold rather than hot war with England , and after it the Scots simply reverted to their usual distant hostility . |
| 26 | It was transport which became the first post-ECSC target . |
| 27 | The Art he loved , be it musical , cinematic or literature , was art which just stretched outside the bounds of normality . |
| 28 | It was knowledge which could be postponed until they were days older and more experienced in the ways of ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 29 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 30 | The council that I had the honour to serve was Bradford which , from October 1988 , suffered the so-called ’ people 's revolution ’ . |