Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he was able to forecast accurately which women would develop the disease merely by knowing which midwife had been in attendance . |
| 2 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 3 | The final , symbolic point on which Branson relented was in giving Oldfield an increased royalty on all future sales of Tubular Bells . |
| 4 | If only Nubenehem remembered it , then at least he could establish for certain which girl had been at the City of Dreams . |
| 5 | Formal approval of detailed proposals , on which negotiations had been in progress for five months , was expected at the end of February . |
| 6 | The minor tasks which Ybreska performed were of no real significance to him , merely a means of making a little extra money na levo — on the side . |
| 7 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 8 | The effect in Britain was a polarising into allies and enemies of the tribes with which Rome had been in contact . |
| 9 | Another sneeze dawned and he reached yet again for his handkerchief , an object which Milton felt was about as disgusting as anything he had ever seen outside the occasional severed head in a motorway accident . |
| 10 | The drivers were Ch'kassians : small olive-skinned men from an island country which Hodai said was on the other side of the Inner Sea . |
| 11 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 12 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 13 | Cicero , whose stamina had been in doubt , could not keep his place and dropped away , but Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly — the mare on the stands side , her rival on the far side — were closing rapidly on the leader . |
| 14 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 15 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 16 | Kuwaiti electoral law restricted the franchise to men aged 21 or over whose families had been in the Emirate since before 1921 , limiting the number of voters to 81,400 of the country 's 606,000 nationals . |
| 17 | Species whose populations decreased were from a variety of habitats including open fields and farmland ( Skylark and Yellowhammer ) , ponds ( Moorhen ) , scrub ( Whitethroat ) , wetlands ( Sedge Warbler ) , woodlands ( Stock Dove ) , aerial feeders ( Swallow and House Martin ) and many generalists particularly at home in gardens ( Wren , Dunnock , Robin , Blackbird and Song Thrush ) . |
| 18 | In 1830 a monk living in Bentota , a village on the south-western coast , singled out George Turnour , an Englishman whose career had been in Kandyan districts , as an unusual arbitrator in that he understood Sinhala . |
| 19 | Schimberni 's 10-year investment plan for the FS had also been received unfavourably by the Transport Minister Carlo Bernini , whose preference had been for a programme with greater emphasis on capital projects . |
| 20 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 21 | Among those who regarded Faustus as their spiritual master was Sidonius , whose brother had been in some way saved by the bishop . |
| 22 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 23 | At no. 52 lived Mr. Maton with his elderly spinster sister , a very quiet couple whose family had been in the house for almost two centuries . |
| 24 | The making of a claim was a privilege rather than a right , and claimants would therefore be expected to heed whatever rules had been in force . |
| 25 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 26 | What Owen wanted was to be in and out fast . |
| 27 | Vichy , Spa , Baden-Baden , Aix-les-Bains , but above all the great international spas of the Habsburg monarchy , Gastein , Marienbad , Karlsbad , etc. , were to nineteenth-century Europe what Bath had been to eighteenth-century England , fashionable gatherings justified by the excuse of drinking some form of disagreeable mineral waters or immersing oneself in some form of liquid under the control of a benevolent medical dictator . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , Ace hoped that Daak 's flamboyant display of aerobatics had dislodged whatever creature had been on the hull . |