Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereabouts was this flat ? |
| 2 | But how were such clans organised ? |
| 3 | How were clinical trials , so convincing for antituberculous drugs , to be brought into the sensitive area of subjective experience ? |
| 4 | So what does the Aurora SA7000 look like and how were these improvements achieved ? |
| 5 | How were these products advertised ? |
| 6 | How were these advances achieved ? |
| 7 | ‘ How were those horses made to bolt ? |
| 8 | How was that mood of optimistic euphoria so rapidly smashed ? |
| 9 | How was that expansion of computerisation brought about ? |
| 10 | How was that growth fostered ? |
| 11 | How was poor Blanche these days ? |
| 12 | But how was this pluralism to be embodied in the electoral process ? |
| 13 | How how was this sophistication accepted by the quarry owners ? |
| 14 | But how was this material used ? |
| 15 | How was social cohesion possible ? |
| 16 | When were these statements first made ? |
| 17 | But where were these others ? |
| 18 | And where were these servants ? |
| 19 | Why were heterosexual feminists outraged and repelled by us and all we stood for ? |
| 20 | inspection to proceed , that 's why were partial explanation and I have the English to explain that for you |
| 21 | And why were evangelical Christians and Bruce Springsteen fans burning disco records in ceremonies reminiscent of the book bonfires of Nazi Germany ? |
| 22 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 23 | Why were these women there ? |
| 24 | Neither system was wholly satisfactory , but during the public inquiry into the Trident accident at Staines in 1972 evidence was heard that other aircraft had suffered similar happenings ( though in less critical circumstances and there had been no accident ) and the question was put : ‘ Why were these incidents not reported under the voluntary system ? ’ |
| 25 | Above all , why were these chaps messing around with helium-filled contraptions , in an age of routine rocketry ? |
| 26 | The children visit the church and learn to look at it and describe what they see , and this is in itself a valuable exercise ; but it becomes more valuable still if as well as noting that the fabric is stone , they are provoked to go on to enquire what type of stone , is it all the same stone , why were these types of stone Preferred , where do they come from , and how do they come to be what they are ? |
| 27 | And why were those agents murdered ? ’ |
| 28 | If this was indeed the case , why were those children ever removed from their own home at all ? |
| 29 | If force was ruled out as you say , why were 150 riot police equipped with riot helmets , shields and batons needed to remove 51 people , of whom 43 were women and children ? ’ |
| 30 | Why were British statesmen preoccupied with Russia before 1860 ? |