Example sentences of "what [was/were] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some of the former have been reclassified today , it is interesting to see what were listed in the mid-eighteenth century : Rosa canina , spinosissima , villosa , eglanteria , scotica , inermis , hispanica , scandens , sempervirens , virginiana , lutea , punicea , moschata , centifolia , damascena , alba , belgica , provincialis , incarnata , gallica , cinnamomea and muscosa . |
| 2 | The specific effect of using a colon instead of a semicolon is to suggest that what comes next is a more specific example , or an explanation , of what was said in the first sentence . |
| 3 | The reader who has followed what was said in the second chapter will already have appreciated the nature of the trust , one of the most characteristic institutions of English Law , and its enormous importance as a part of our law of property . |
| 4 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 5 | In the light of what was to happen in the next few years , defeat by just 2–0 may be seen as something of a triumph , especially in view of the two traumas that occurred . |
| 6 | Those who have some knowledge of railway history will recall what was known in the last century and in the early years of this century as ’ the railway interest ’ . |
| 7 | Two prehistoric cairns stand above what was described in the sixteenth century as |