Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 2 | The concept of transnational practices refers to the effects of what people do when they are acting within specific institutional contexts . |
| 3 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 4 | We have a large coalfired power station near where I live er in Oxfordshire er at a place called Didcot , which is also a railway er junction erm roughly halfway between Harwell where we , we invented er nuclear power and , and Culham where they 're working on nuclear fusion which is a different kind of nuclear power , roughly halfway between the government decides to build the largest coalfired power station in the country . |
| 5 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |