Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 2 | a term borrowed from the Victorian pseudo-science of phrenology , the basic premiss of which was that character could be gauged from the shape of the skull , which phrenologists divided into some 40 sections or ‘ organs ’ , each one being the seat of a mental or moral faculty . |
| 3 | Clara forbore to point out that cremation did result , precisely , in ashes , because she took , expertly , her mother 's meaning , which was that cremation was an unnatural practice and that bodies ought to rot quietly at their own leisure . |
| 4 | Which was that Ellen had sworn herself to celibacy while she worked as a cook , a decision that was to me as eccentric as it was both incomprehensible and frustrating . |
| 5 | I used to roam all just round the country , round this area , which was all fields at that time and when you got at top , top of you were more or less in the country . |
| 6 | His parents published a collection of his letters in 1919 , The Letters of Charles Sorley , which the Manchester Guardian thought ‘ contained the first mature impressions of a nature which was all vigour and radiance , a boy who may be said to have had a genius for truth ’ . |
| 7 | Well , we enjoyed that outing , er we had tea on the roof , which was all glass , never seen anything like it before and I sha n't see it again since it got burnt down anyway . |
| 8 | They were a ridiculous race which was all Gestapo and people sticking out their arms at a villain-clown with a tooth-brush moustache . |
| 9 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 10 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 11 | I 'd had enough of my hair looking like a toilet brush , so I always had it cut short — like Ronnie Lane 's of course — which was less hassle . |
| 12 | She held one end of a white tape in one hand and measured out a length with the other which was several times the distance from her elbow to the second finger of her hand . |
| 13 | He wore a greasy purple jacket which was several sizes too large for him . |
| 14 | Regional CPD convenors met at the third CPD Forum in Windsor in October , which was this year sponsored by the Architects ' Journal . |
| 15 | which was this study |
| 16 | He was a regular at fashionable Glasgow nightclubs like ‘ La Ronde ’ in Sauchiehall Street but when the mood took him , which was most nights ending with a ‘ Y ’ , he would wander into corner pubs and hold court . |
| 17 | On one occasion a very experienced pilot in a Nimbus 2 was starting on a car launch when it swung off the runway into a K8 which was some distance ahead . |
| 18 | Another specific usage of private stations was that of Railway Staff halts which enabled staff to reach a place of work which was some distance from a public stopping place . |
| 19 | This is compared with the 1990 figure which was some 35% higher . |
| 20 | Sadly , the last time I saw it , which was some years ago , it had pretty well faded beyond recognition . |
| 21 | The new dog which was half collie , half sheepdog , sat sleepily on the step loving the September sunshine . |
| 22 | Her son and daughter-in-law , she confided , drank a powder which was half chicory . |
| 23 | Which was another part of Vivienne 's ‘ One Of Us ’ schtick . |
| 24 | Looking up , he found he was standing under a short vertical shaft , at the top of which was another trapdoor . |
| 25 | An exception was Italy which slowly and reluctantly adopted Gothic tenets but , in contrast , was the originator of the Renaissance , establishing its forms nearly two centuries before England , which was another exception . |
| 26 | In 1990 the hugely effective volunteer branched and guilds workforce was directly responsible for raising over £10m for the first time , not including the credit for attracting a very large proportion of the legacy income — which was another record in 1900 at some £31m . |
| 27 | It was a maroon colour , now much mottled , which was another point of resemblance between them . |
| 28 | It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned . |
| 29 | " I do n't always feel well , " he said , which was another statement he had prepared . |
| 30 | At that time , University College had no fellow in mathematics , which was another reason he wanted me to do chemistry : I could try for a scholarship in natural science rather than in mathematics . |