Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever there were parties , which were a fairly regular occurrence with twenty five staff and no other form of entertainment , Eva Burrows was always " tile centre of happenings ' . |
| 2 | On Feb. 11 Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Ghazi Obaid as Sammar said that it was out of the question for foreign observers to monitor the elections , which were a purely internal matter . |
| 3 | They lived in a council house in Wembley , which was a little off-putting . |
| 4 | I at once seized my astrolabe and made a careful note of the time of full eclipse , which was a little more than three-quarters of an hour after the eleventh hour of the night . |
| 5 | ‘ I was at the back of the line up at Blackheath which was a little disconcerting . |
| 6 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 7 | It appeared in January 1946 in the Dublin Review — which was a most lively periodical , and of which , now that it is no more , there is no equivalent . |
| 8 | I also attended the service in the Anglican Cathedral , which was a most moving experience and one which I shall always treasure . |
| 9 | And of course there was the fertilizer pile , next to me — beyond which was a slightly different pile , with sticks thrusting out of it at angles . |
| 10 | The Respect single was released on December 24 , which was a decidedly dodgy date on which to push any new-born record into a then well-boozy world . |
| 11 | Which was a pretty passive thing to do , in some ways , erm , and similarly , you could say Woodrow Wilson ended up crucified by the , by the allies . |
| 12 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |
| 13 | This reserve was cut to around 12% and the result was that the Stirling was able to operate at 18,500′ plus , which was a much better height than the bare 12,500′ we struggled to in the early days of PFF . |
| 14 | It also had an upgraded processor , Intel 8086 , which was a more capable version of the 8088 , and , incidentally , was capable of being run at a faster speed — although it was n't . |
| 15 | Conway , who prudently forbade Taylor to dedicate any of his works to himself , eventually persuaded him to come and live on his estates in Ireland as a ‘ lecturer ’ , which was a more acceptable title to the authorities than ‘ chaplain ’ . |
| 16 | Those opening words from Marx 's Capital could have been written about the long postwar boom , the most striking feature of which was a quite breathtaking growth in production . |
| 17 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 18 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 19 | The day ended with three fish , one of which was a very nice trout weighing 1lb 8oz . |
| 20 | Which was a very good thing and what children of today miss when they 're being whisked on a bus to school . |
| 21 | Which was a very good thing most of the the young apprentices would never know about slip rings . |
| 22 | Yes you 're quite right there because part of the street , the pavement and hard standing in the gardens for the cars which was a very good idea , now there 's the city have done two thirds of that and then when they came to the end of the er cul-de- sac , |
| 23 | If the film was , say , Old Mother Riley Goes to Paris , you 'd have three of your doormen dressed up as Old Mother Riley , which was a very cheap costume to hire , and you 'd build an Eiffel Tower , put it on a barrow and go round the town during the busy shopping time . |
| 24 | All these parents sent their children to Byron House school , which was a very progressive school for those times . |
| 25 | One of those is a death penalty campaign which was a very big one about two , two to three years ago when we focused particularly on , on the United States and all the other major countries which erm which er used the best penalty to fairly large extent , er do we have anything Catherine on that tonight ? . |
| 26 | Before racing started , I lunched with Her Majesty 's Representative colonel Sir Piers Bengough and Lady Bengough , which was a very happy start . |
| 27 | The Princess had said she particularly wanted to meet mothers who had had a treatment known as chorionic villus biopsy , which was a very exciting breakthrough . |
| 28 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 29 | Buster felt that he could make the vehicle — which was a very dismal thing to look at — a real sort of Bonny and Clyde affair . |
| 30 | I wrote my first book [ In Honour Bound , Arrow , £2.99 ] which was a very cathartic experience . |