Example sentences of "to [Wh det] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naughtie asked John Cole whether he had been invited to what was clearly the party of the century , and Cole replied gravely that he had . |
| 2 | This village near Llanberis gave its name to what was once the world 's largest slate quarry . |
| 3 | Sir Kenneth Kleinwort , director of the Kleinwort Benson Group , remembers as a child in the 1940s being taken to what was then the family bank . |
| 4 | There were only nine or ten other wives ; most officers had chosen not to bring their spouses to what was still a danger zone . |
| 5 | In the late Seventies and early Eighties he took racehorse ownership and breeding into a new dimension by applying business principles to what was originally a pastime . |
| 6 | The town itself is above a steep hillside that leads down to what was originally the source of much of its wealth , the Painswick Stream . |
| 7 | A reduction off the shaft consists of a belt drive to what was originally the flywheel from a portable steam engine . |
| 8 | The ground floor was tiled , and two-thirds along the length of this massive forty-by twenty-foot room was a magnificent fireplace — the chimney breast built of huge granite stones with access on either side to what was obviously the dining-area . |
| 9 | Dutifully , the press arrived in droves to pay homage to what was obviously the start of the country 's number one tour . |