Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | it could expand , unless it could gather strength and produce an army er it was on the road to annihilation which was their the course of erm Chiang Kai-Shek 's was n't it ? |
| 2 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 3 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |
| 4 | He was content with the money he earned , which was what the agents asked . ’ |
| 5 | By three-twenty , which was what the alarm clock by the bedside said the last time I looked at it , I have moved on from thinking about Timmy and Cheryl and her children , and Cheryl , and Timmy , and Cheryl 's children , and Timmy , and Timmy , and Cheryl , and Timmy , and begun to think about Summerchild and Serafin , and Serafin , and Timmy , and Serafin , yes , and Serafin . |
| 6 | They have cut the price , er of meals charged to the children , they 've er made some adjustments o c , to the menus offered , which was what the parents wanted , and as a result they 've actually increased the take-up of school meals by something like sixty percent . |
| 7 | Would it say , ‘ Dear Miss Bishop , Thank you for your recent enquiry , but … ’ which was what the letters from Parsons and FIT had said . |
| 8 | Sean and Mark , which was what the boy was called , went off to the hostel . |
| 9 | These conditions , difficult to sustain , led occasionally to a great deal of embarrassment , mixed always with a compensationary dose of fun and good humour , and sometimes followed by the communication of useful information which was none the less pleasant because of the piquancy incident to a little merriment and unexpected light of knowledge . ’ |
| 10 | It is argued that specific policies implemented at the outset of British rule led to the development of a judicial system which did not coincide with either British or indigenous notions of justice but which was none the less compatible with local culture . |
| 11 | It was not only a constitution which really was and is effective in the running of the state , but which was itself the product of the hegemonic culture already established . |
| 12 | It was published as an Appendix to Hardy , which was itself the result of an inquiry by the Greater London Enterprise Board ( GLEB ) into the music industry . |
| 13 | The decision followed strong reactions by the US administration and the UN to an incident earlier in the day , when Iraq troops had fired shots in the air allegedly to deny UN inspectors access to a nuclear weapons site , which was itself the culmination of a series of such refusals by Iraq . |
| 14 | What was it the air-raid wardens shouted when they saw a house with a chink of light showing ? |
| 15 | So what was it the Catholics objected to ? |
| 16 | What was it the old boy had said ? |
| 17 | ‘ What was it the last critic said , darling ? |
| 18 | A huge figure for any programme , but what Was it the quality of the scripts and the fact that it starred David Jason ? |
| 19 | What was it the difference between the first hand and the second handshake ? |
| 20 | What was it the copper said about going on the Wogan show ? |
| 21 | And what was it the present ? |