Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all dinosaur localities were situated in what scientists can now work out as being within 40 to 50 degrees of the paleo-equator , where the mean annual temperature was 15°C higher than today . |
| 2 | Sahlins ' point is to show how to both sides differing types of sense were formed of what Cook 's arrival ‘ meant ’ . |
| 3 | We were stopped by what Paddy described as a gang of ‘ armed bandolieroed henchmen ’ . |
| 4 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 5 | Training materials were prepared from which boards were free to choose according to individual needs . |
| 6 | And he asked us to er at that time in May they were looking at what criteria they were going to judge products to award a fair-trade mark to them . |
| 7 | The Centre for Research on User Studies ( CRUS ) ’ asked its respondents how decisions were made about which courses are attended by which staff . |
| 8 | The split decision , arrived at after almost two hours deliberation by the panel , reflected the complexity of the two-day hearing during which shocking allegations were made about what life was like for residents in the Colchester hospital . |
| 9 | These purchases were made despite what Hall describes as her ‘ antipathy for the firm ’ , aggravated by the fact that a Guardi which Berenson had offered to her was sold to another client , and that she learnt of a discrepancy between the price she paid for two Holbeins and the monies paid to the owners , the Pole-Carews . |
| 10 | ‘ We began filming at 7.00am at the Bryman Airways check in. was shouting directions and the cameraman and soundman were fretting over which positions were best — we drew quite a crowd . |
| 11 | Soon , inflation was running at 26 per cent and the trade unions were grasping for whatever wage awards they could . |
| 12 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 13 | By the second year three of the districts were moving towards what Ham and Matthews call " real " purchasing : needs assessment , evaluating service effectiveness , establishing priorities and beginning to make changes in ways which take account of consumer views ( Ham and Matthews 1991 : 21 ) . |
| 14 | Television specials were mounted in which psychiatrists offered theories that meant , ‘ We know certain things that underline how little we know . ’ |
| 15 | Gorbachev , shortly before his resignation , sent a message to the representatives who were gathering in Alma Ata urging them to consider a form of Commonwealth citizenship so that all the former citizens of the USSR would feel their rights were protected in whichever republic they were resident . |
| 16 | At the same time as negotiating this amalgamation and setting the new machinery in place , the NCDAD and the CNAA were dealing with what Strand calls the ‘ large and prickly subject ’ of the validation of the major art colleges in Scotland . |
| 17 | Thus , the vendors were asked in which area of London it would be unwise to resell the goods . |
| 18 | Sixty West Midlands workers were asked in what way they found their managers lacking , and to make any suggestions for improvements . |
| 19 | The boys were asked in what ways they felt that this so-called ‘ hassle ’ affected their academic performance . |
| 20 | Like everyone else , they were taken into whatever jobs were available for them . |
| 21 | Previously patients were admitted to whichever ward had free beds . |
| 22 | Previously patients were admitted to whichever ward had free beds . |
| 23 | They were arguing about whose fingernails were longest , thinnest and sharpest and thought that the only way to see would be by testing them on each other 's bony arms . |
| 24 | Duncan was beginning to wonder which players were playing on which side . |
| 25 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 26 | Were you halving here when we were dividing by what number . |
| 27 | The New Critics argued both that these broader associations were an essential part of the meaning of literature , and that a high degree of consensus existed , at least among experienced readers , as to which associations were attached to which words . |
| 28 | When , when you were working at what sort of lock were you making there ? |
| 29 | In both cases coalition governments were established in which communists swiftly assumed a dominant position . |
| 30 | Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales . |