Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social services had a high degree of commitment to community care planning , which was diluted in the health agencies by other priorities . |
| 2 | Kevin Keegan , Ian Botham , Sally Gunnell and Nick Brown , not to mention figures from the world of showbusiness , Max Boyce and Fiona Fullerton , all took their courtside tables for the running buffet which was served during the tennis . |
| 3 | The original timber used was Oregon Pine , the inherent softness of which was aggravated by the wet conditions in which it lay . |
| 4 | Tossed about between the two , he lacked a stable background , a circumstance which was aggravated by the changes in the fortunes of the Bonaparte family as a whole . |
| 5 | It was a problem which was aggravated by the need to meet the political argument that accession would involve an abandonment of sovereignty . |
| 6 | This comprised three street tramway lines based on Mitcham , one of which was extended to the Croydon Borough boundary . |
| 7 | Later in the century , ‘ folk ’ took over these usages from ‘ popular ’ , which was transferred to the products of the music hall and then to those of the mass market song publishers of Tin Pan Alley and its British equivalent . |
| 8 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 9 | Accordingly , the jurisdiction of the visitors in these matters was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court in 1873 and retained there by section 18(3) of the Act of 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Act of 1981 . |
| 10 | This was probably caused by the roll of linoleum , one end of which was tied to the carrier behind her saddle , the other to the handlebar . |
| 11 | One of the moons is in fact the remains of another planet , and it is one of the conclusions of our survey that this is a world which was resettled during the Second Empire . ’ |
| 12 | As the pairs had a pattern to follow which was dictated by the components of their task — lexis , structure , discourse function — it was possible for me to stop the discussions from time to time to concentrate the attention of the whole group on specific issues like , for example , the meaningful teaching or certain lexis and grammar . |
| 13 | To understand why the RHA became involved and wanted to force the pace , it is necessary to turn back to examine the state of affairs which was inherited by the authority from the old metropolitan health board . |
| 14 | As recent research is beginning to uncover , the 1880s witnessed the beginnings of a questioning of current forms of sexual morality from feminist intellectuals — a move which was stimulated by the various public sexual scandals of the decade . |
| 15 | Instead of entering the water , he landed straddled on an anchor which was racked at the stern . |
| 16 | The picture collection , which was made with the help of the dealer William Buchanan , was formed chiefly between 1840 and 1860 from most of the important auctions in London and from Italian collections . |
| 17 | In addition , a bathymetric survey of Finlaggan Loch , Islay , which was made for the National Museum of Scotland , was combined with investigations by a BGS diving team . |
| 18 | The award , which was made during the year in which both the RSC and the polytechnic celebrate their sesquicentenaries , recognised the longstanding special relationship between the parties , and marks the RSC 's contribution to the work , life and culture of the polytechnic and its precursor institutions . |
| 19 | For large numbers come into the criminal justice system unnecessarily , erm that is likely to set back the progress which was made during the nineteen eighties and er increase and reinforce criminality . |
| 20 | That course could not be taken in the present case , because of a specific and unusual statutory provision which anticipated the kind of mistake which was made by the sentencer in this case . |
| 21 | The Government must find an answer to that key point , which was made by the hon. and learned Member for Burton , who has long experience at the Bar , and by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 22 | On 1 March he published his intention of inviolably observing the Charter of the Forest in all its articles : he appointed four commissioners to supervise the making in each forest county of ‘ a true perambulation , namely that which was made in the time of the lord King Henry our father , which has not yet been challenged ’ . |
| 23 | there is a model of a robot from Japan which was made in the 1960s . |
| 24 | The impression which was made upon the British by what came to be known as the Canadian model was correspondingly deep and powerful . |
| 25 | By a mysterious logic which was lost on the majority , a retired military officer took command , demanding total obedience from all foreigners in the camp . |
| 26 | An owl few over the ford , banked into a beechwood and gave a last hollow call , which was lost in the dawn 's loud chorus that seemed to presage a bright hot summer 's day in this rich and placid countryside . |
| 27 | The proposal to restore the provost as local civic figurehead raises the prospect of restoring a position to the region 's small towns and burghs which was lost in the 1975 reforms . |
| 28 | On the coast where we turn right and inland to the village of São Vicente ( 116km ) there is a tiny chapel which was built into the rock beside the mouth of the river in 1692 . |
| 29 | The Edwardians were much perturbed by what was known as the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ and the structural unemployment which was built into the labour market for youths . |
| 30 | Also in East Yorkshire are Goodmanham , which was built on the site of a pagan temple and Rudston , where the church is adjacent to the tallest standing stone in Britain . |