Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashore the troops were commanded by Colonel John Durnford-Slater , the Commanding Officer of 3 Commando , who did most of the detailed planning for the raiding force which was made up from the entire 3 Commando , reinforced by two Troops from ‘ No.2 ’ with additional Royal Engineers from ‘ No.6 ’ , Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) personnel from ‘ No.4 ’ , intelligence officers from the War Office , and a Press Unit . |
| 2 | A new cult established itself over twenty years , its shrine being the domed town of the Keepers , which was built up against the entrance to caverns . |
| 3 | According to a House of Commons motion , the leak was traced through a system of numbered copies of the 752-page document , which was sent out to the authorities investigating possible criminal proceedings resulting from the report 's conclusions . |
| 4 | Well of course we protested and went on the March for Life and Peace , which was turned back by the military . |
| 5 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |
| 6 | This delayed the Whole patrol for two hours whilst the unfortunate driver was flown to the Field Hospital in a Gazelle helicopter which was called out to the scene , and a REME team drove out to repair the Land-Rover . |
| 7 | A 184 year old cedar tree which was blown down in the January storms was the focus of an enterprising initiative in April at Claremont Landscape Garden , Surrey . |
| 8 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |
| 9 | The room was unpainted and the only furniture consisted of a lime green sofa , two wooden chairs and a three-legged coffee table which was propped up against the wall to prevent it from toppling over . |
| 10 | The 1930s witnessed the emerging confrontation with Fascism in Europe , a struggle which was played out on the battlefields of Spain from 1936 to 1939 . |
| 11 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 12 | Accordingly , for many public figures writing in the 1890s and early 1900s , the character of citizenship and the common understanding and experience of it , all of which was bound up with the imperatives of progress , became urgent political and social issues . |
| 13 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 14 | The second mechanism for controlling managerial power which was singled out in the legal model was the fiduciary duties imposed upon the directors and officers of the company . |
| 15 | Then we fitted each tyre back on to the wheel which was clamped down on the tyring platform . |
| 16 | Edward was kitted up and ready to go , and Benson went with him to the car , which was ticking over outside the control tower . |
| 17 | The Postal side of the Polish Post , Telegraph and Telephone company , which was split off from the Telecoms side back in January , is to become one of the earliest recipients of an IBM mainframe running the firm 's AIX Unix implementation . |
| 18 | ‘ You live in … in that house ? ’ he asked , surprised , pointing to Thornfield Hall , which was lit up in the moonlight . |
| 19 | This involved a Parent Chat Sheet , part of which was filled in by the parent or written by a member of staff for the parent during the chat . |
| 20 | He was later seen getting into a silver metallic car which was driven off in the direction of Cheyney Road . |
| 21 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 22 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 23 | The two reportedly denied reports that they had left their London hotel to attend the Palestine National Council ( PNC ) meeting in Algiers in September [ see pp. 38453-54 ] , and the PLO news agency Wafa on Sept. 26 said that they had not attended the PLO meeting in person , but had sent a message which was read out to the political committee . |
| 24 | An alternative explanation is that the figure indicates the existence of an important fertility bull cult at Stamford which was brought over by the Myceneans . |
| 25 | On the Gamily Fast Day in October , the children gave up snacks and donated the money save to a collection which was brought up at the offertory at a special mass in school . |
| 26 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 27 | True to this description , the Joint High Command played no part in the Hungarian intervention of 1956 , commanded by Army General P. I. Batov of the Soviet Ground Forces ; nor in the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 , which was carried out with the participation of other Pact forces . |
| 28 | The renovation , which was carried out under the direction of an architect.who lived on Strand-on-the-Green , received a Times-R.I.C.S . |
| 29 | This view was subsequently confirmed by a thorough review of the operation requirement which was carried out under the direction of the four chiefs of defence staff . |
| 30 | The best known of the earlier endeavours is probably Project Sappho , which was carried out by the Science Policy Review Unit ( SPRU ) based at the University of Sussex . |