Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 2 | What it did do , however , was to herald the potential use of sex crime allied to other explicitly sexual gossip , photographs of topless models and so on to become close to a ‘ soft porn package ’ which was its strategy in the ensuing circulation warfare . |
| 3 | By nature , and before he went to Ireland , whose problems affected the characters and ruined the careers of many another English administrator before and since , Jeremy Taylor was a very humane man , and it may be appropriate to leave him by quoting a story which was his conclusion to The Liberty of Prophesying : |
| 4 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , like everyone else we wonder how we can ever afford to replace the time expired capital equipment and infrastructure which was our legacy from the past 20 years of neglect . |
| 6 | Before the review began , and immediately after the agreed report had been presented , I interviewed the various participants in order to find out what were their feelings about the review . |
| 7 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 8 | What what were your experiences of the war ? |
| 9 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 10 | What was her version of the story ? |
| 11 | What was his position in the family ? |
| 12 | 3 What was his score in the 4th match ? |
| 13 | What was his marks for the last test . |
| 14 | And what was his reaction at the end of that ? |
| 15 | ‘ What was your expertise in the building business — quantity surveying or cost control ? ’ |
| 16 | What was your views on the fire station ? |
| 17 | What was your role during the search ? |
| 18 | Mm , having read the report and possibly being on the end of the complaints from the pensioners in the Maxwell fraud er what was your view regarding the proposals that are being made ? |
| 19 | What was your stance on the decision to opt out ? |
| 20 | And what was your job at the time ? |
| 21 | What did it mean for her-that little episode-what was its significance in the pattern ? |