Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this starting point , a series of models were developed to determine what changes in practices would encourage Colleges to move towards a state of equilibrium in the new circumstances . |
| 2 | Studies of processes were undertaken to remedy what many physical geographers perceived to be a deficiency and in doing so it was necessary to overcome considerable resistance such as that in geomorphology where Wooldridge ( 1958 , p. 31 ) avowed : |
| 3 | It may help to see how the need for process studies was perceived to exist and then to proceed to indicate in which branches studies were undertaken using what methods as a basis for assessing how our knowledge has increased in spatial terms and in time with reference to catastrophic views . |
| 4 | Witnesses have already given descriptions of the pair who were seen having what appeared to be a heated argument . |
| 5 | Erm it was the way they sort of checked all the way round the car park as if they were looking to see which would be the best . |
| 6 | Visitors were instructed to ask what time working class wives got up in the morning and to elicit a history of the way in which they organised their day 's work . |
| 7 | When this indicated a probability of less than 0.05 for the null hypothesis Student-Newman-Keuls analyses were performed to determine which values differed significantly . |
| 8 | Logistic regression models were used to determine which variables significantly and independently could predict bacterial pneumonia and to adjust for potential confounders . |
| 9 | Various hypotheses based on different kinds of anatomical evidence were offered to identify which invertebrate type had been the ancestor from which the ‘ main line ’ of vertebrate evolution had taken off . |
| 10 | It was also a reflection of a growing awareness on the part of teachers that learning in school would be more effective if parents were helped to understand what they , the teachers , were seeking to achieve . |
| 11 | Back in England when the 4th Scots Guards had finished ski training and were waiting to put what they 'd learned into practice , Charles had by no means forgotten events on the nursery slopes of Chamonix . |
| 12 | A lot of people were waiting to see what happened to me . |
| 13 | So , just when you thought you could n't afford a real Paul Reed Smith and were going to spend what money you had managed to save on something else , along comes the new EG range . |
| 14 | It was Balvinder Singh who one day in late January suddenly announced , quite unprompted , that he would not be on duty on Sunday as he and his father Punjab Singh were going to watch what he called a ‘ bird challenge ’ . |
| 15 | When the controller of a space rocket said recently that the team were going to decide what to do next , he expressed the thought as , ‘ We will evaluate the situation in order to make a determination . ’ |
| 16 | The narrator took up a position to one side of the loudspeaker , and the listeners were challenged to guess which was which as alternate lines were delivered . |
| 17 | Although corporacy and good relations were thought to be important , both sides acknowledged that conflicts of interest were bound to happen which had to be worked through by negotiation and bargaining . |
| 18 | By the mid-1980s , some development economists were beginning to question what was meant by successful economic growth . |
| 19 | Presumably the English at the Spittal realised that something was amiss and were coming to see what . |
| 20 | We did , however , both have a certain number of securities , and a good few hours were spent deciding which to sell . |
| 21 | Complex systems were invented to define what was considered an ‘ ideal ’ figure . |
| 22 | Complex systems were invented to define what was considered an ‘ ideal ’ figure . |
| 23 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 24 | In the main survey , people were asked to say which types of credit they thought matched 12 different statements of attitude ( see Appendix I , Tables 12a and 13b ) . |
| 25 | and were asked to say which word of each pair was masculine and which was feminine . |
| 26 | In summary , one can say beyond reasonable doubt that if one were asked to choose which of Slade 's apprentices is most likely to have made the harpsichord on which Handel rests his elbow , the evidence weighs very heavily in favour of William Smith . |
| 27 | They were asked to outline what their parties aimed to do to boost the average income of farmers , which has fallen by 18pc to the lowest level since the 1939–1945 War . |
| 28 | This final point was illustrated in an experiment ( Gordon , 1983 ) in which two classes of children aged 12 were asked to identify what they thought were the difficult parts of passages from a history textbook . |
| 29 | The ASWs were asked to indicate which of these each individual suffered and which of these they considered to be severe . |
| 30 | Students were asked to indicate which of six statements relating to smoking behaviour best described their own behaviour . |