Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further study of Les Sylphides reveals Fokine 's great understanding of the dance rhythms which he felt he had to make visible whenever he was using well-recognised dance forms . |
| 2 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 3 | He was concerned to discover how they were winning lucrative car parking contracts and whether there was a leak of information from his own company . |
| 4 | I remember years ago , when I was teaching slow learners in a Child Guidance clinic , a little girl from a small village was reading a story in which reference was made to someone ‘ cheeking the dinner lady . ’ |
| 5 | He then launched an inquiry into why she was granted Legal Aid . |
| 6 | Beverley 's achievements made the headlines last year when she was named outright winner and Science and Technology Section winner in the Cosmopolitan /Clairol Achievement Awards , a competition which aims to highlight women who have attained excellence in their professions . |
| 7 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 8 | And as far as their consciences were concerned , they justified the colour under their brevets that they earned during the period when they were having grave doubts about their own efficiency . |
| 9 | ‘ You said there had been an accident in the section where they were handling nuclear devices . |
| 10 | On the other hand , they had also reached a point where they were using sufficient quantities that injecting , which requires less heroin for a ‘ better hit ’ , became ‘ attractive ’ enough to overcome any anxieties they had previously felt . |
| 11 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 12 | Well , well the ones that were on where they were playing musical chairs or something like that |
| 13 | ‘ When we asked young people why they were joining paramilitary groups they said ‘ just look at what the Provos are getting with all their violence . ’ |
| 14 | Further , he failed to get satisfactory answers to questions which he asked pupils about the work in hand and why they were doing certain things . |
| 15 | Mr Wise , who is 42 , felt that he had reached his peak at Reuters in 1987 when he was made technical projects manager . |
| 16 | Mr Portillo , at 38 the youngest Cabinet member since Dr David Owen , who was also 38 when he was made Foreign Secretary in 1977 , replaces Mr David Mellor , the new Heritage Minister , who presided over a significant increase in public spending in the run up to the election . |
| 17 | He had certainly entered Edward 's service by 1274 , when he was appointed joint custodian of the vacant see of Durham . |
| 18 | Anderson 's life in Africa ended in 1978 , when he was appointed Managing Director of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation ( CFTC ) . |
| 19 | After the war Humphrys became political agent , Khyber ( 1919 ) , and deputy foreign secretary of the government of India ( 1921 ) , a post which he held until 1922 , when he was appointed British minister to Afghanistan . |
| 20 | He was a much-respected college commander at Sandhurst from 1953 to 1955 , when he was appointed British instructor at the US Command and General Staff College . |
| 21 | His show-business break came in 1956 when he was appointed musical director for the show Cranks which ran in London and on New York 's Broadway . |
| 22 | Colbeck remained as master in the Wilson Line until 1912 , when he was appointed marine superintendent in the London office . |
| 23 | Through his veins flowed a potent mixture of Mexican and Irish blood , and a little goading from the US Marine Corps was enough to have him taking them all on when he was filming Guadalcanal Diary in 1943 . |
| 24 | The 14th Dalai Lama , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , fled to India , where he was granted political asylum and in 1964 China declared him to be a traitor . |
| 25 | Born in Austria , he had been imprisoned after the Second World War but escaped to Argentina , where he was granted Argentinian citizenship . |
| 26 | Similarly , Daley Thompson , the celebrated Essex Beagles decathlete , was brought up in a home where he was denied parental encouragement for his sport . |
| 27 | Promoted to Field Marshall in 1895 he died in 1914 of pneumonia at the Front in France where he was visiting Indian divisions . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you see , there could 'ave been five 'undred quid in fifty-quid notes in that letter , which was why he was spittin' blue murder . ’ |