Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun . |
| 2 | A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate . |
| 3 | A frantic attempt was made to recall what Leif had said . |
| 4 | Labour was attempting to control what were known as the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 5 | Instead a special meeting of the full council was called to decide what action to take following the Secretary of State 's decision . |
| 6 | Mr Justice Waite said the girl was bound to suffer whichever way he decided . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Samples of wine were tasted to demonstrate what made a ‘ good ’ wine . |
| 9 | Oh , heck , Fabia thought , and for a moment was flummoxed to know what to do next . |
| 10 | The Community Charge was introduced to replace what was seen as the ‘ unfairness ’ of the old local authority rates system . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Court was asked to reduce what was otherwise a perfectly appropriate sentence to allow the offender to be released and to die with dignity . |
| 13 | There were several reports of significant clashes between the army and LTTE guerrillas in mid-February , and extensions of curfew regulations in northern and eastern areas , amid speculation that the government was preparing to launch what it hoped would be a conclusive military offensive in the north . |
| 14 | The conceptual line between the systems world and the real world was crossed at a later stage when the information model was used to explore what was actually happening in practice . |
| 15 | In the high grade group , a Cox 's multivariate analysis was performed to identify which of the following variables such as age , extension to adjacent organs or serosal invasion , stage and mode of treatment ( surgery , chemotherapy , or the combination of both ) might be of independent significance in predicting mortality . |
| 16 | Essentially , the cases and their history were studied to establish what factors or characteristics they had in common . |
| 17 | At this stage the LEA officer responsible for the administration of the scheme was visited to discuss what additional questions the administration might wish to ask . |
| 18 | It further entailed the immediate resignation — on pain of excommunication — of all but the last cure of souls which had been obtained by the unlicensed pluralist ; the licensed pluralist was allowed to keep whichever two he chose . |
| 19 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 20 | Algernon was trying to judge what danger , if any , he was in . |
| 21 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |