Example sentences of "[Wh det] a [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complete rifle ( wooden components ) made at Wolverton cost : butt — 2 cuts at 3d , stock — four cuts at 3d : total cost 1s 6d ( 7. ½p ) , which included sanding , for which a machine was specially adapted , and soaking in linseed oil . |
| 2 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 3 | MI6 had discovered that the trunk cable from the Imperial Hotel passed along a main road and it acquired a shop from which a tunnel was dug towards the cable duct and the trunk circuits were then tapped one by one . |
| 4 | The church was also surrounded on three sides ( except the east ) by an open arcade on which a gallery was later built . |
| 5 | Once more he was in a good position when one of his tee shots hit an aluminium ladder which a spectator was carrying and ricocheted 40 yards into the trees . |
| 6 | a reference to the execution of the Chevalier de la Barre who was accused of sacrilege at Abbéville in 1766 , having passed within 30 yards of a procession in which a crucifix was being carried without removing his hat . |
| 7 | However , except where the precise means and circumstances in which a story was transmitted are known , the results of tradition criticism are open to question and must be treated with caution . |
| 8 | The report revealed that the riots had been sparked off by police mishandling of a case in which a trader was beaten up by a customs official in Taipei . |
| 9 | The critic may be willing to share an experience with the reader , sometimes only of the circumstances in which a work was seen , as might be included in a personality article ; but on other occasions the critic may give a fuller account of a personal response to a work of art . |
| 10 | They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on . |
| 11 | Stewart Hickman , 20 , of Gloucester Terrace , Haswell Plough , near Durham , was remanded in custody until Wednesday by Chester-le-Street magistrates yesterday charged with grievous bodily harm with intent , reckless driving and other motoring offences following an incident in which a policeman was treated for a neck injury and bruising after being hit by a car he was attempting to stop . |
| 12 | A TEENAGER has appeared in court after an incident in which a policeman was badly hurt . |
| 13 | The reference occurs in The Drowned and the Saved , of which a translation was published in 1988 , on the anniversary of his death . |
| 14 | The doors opened and they stepped into a thickly carpeted , perfectly silent and very large room , again rampant with greenery , in which a girl was sitting behind a desk smiling brightly . |
| 15 | As in other kinds of market , the trick in increasing market share was to supply a product slightly different from the one with which a customer was satisfied . |
| 16 | Ltd. v. Ogden ( 1978 C.A. ) the owner of a vessel which a customer was considering hiring told the customer that its payload was 1,600 tons , whereas its payload was in fact only 1,055 tons ( so stated in the ship 's documents ) . |
| 17 | Even more strikingly , it is clear that classical law admitted indirect wordings in which a trust was held to exist , charged on a person who had never been addressed at all . |
| 18 | The PKK claimed responsibility for two incidents in Istanbul on Aug. 28 in which a ferry was set on fire , damaging a bridge , and a bomb exploded at the British consulate-general . |
| 19 | Alpine pass leading from Switzerland into Italy through which a road was built by Napoleon , 1800–7 . |
| 20 | As an illustration of how it can occur , the field-worker was told of an incident in which a driver was asked to stop for failing to wear a seat-belt , upon which he sped off , necessitating a car chase , which eventually ended with two cars being wrecked and a policeman injured . |
| 21 | This was the thing that came up previously about er , dispatch of a report not being recorded anywhere , because of that was a compliment slip which a photocopy was n't kept and so we erm , therefore have to have a note made on the client contact form to say it 's gone . |
| 22 | Schrödinger imagined an experiment in which a cat was placed in a sealed box with a sufficient supply of air to last it for the duration of the experiment . |
| 23 | The god of the day of the 260-day cycle on which a man was born was his patron saint or guardian deity . |
| 24 | A TEENAGER is due to appear before Colchester magistrates today following a domestic dispute during which a man was stabbed in the chest . |
| 25 | Arriving home late one Sunday night on a railway excursion from Herne Bay , a bottle-fight broke out among the holiday-makers as a result of which a man was killed . |
| 26 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 27 | POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an incident on the Albertbridge Road on Sunday night in which a man was attacked in his car by a gang of youths . |
| 28 | There was no reason why the contract by which a debt was undertaken should not imply the liability to be imprisoned in default of payment . |
| 29 | There would be a gap of anything from six months to a number of years over which a veil was drawn . |
| 30 | None of the authorities to which I have so far referred dealt with a situation in which a decision was made which directly affected one party , A , and at the same time indirectly affected a second party , B , so as to raise the question : is there any duty in the decision-making authority to be fair towards B ? |