Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terms were arranged on which the petition might be withdrawn upon payment of £3,000 . |
| 2 | Five double stranded DNA fragments with four base long 5'-protruding ends were designed in which the GGGCCC and the AAAAA motifs were separated by varying number of nucleotides ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 3 | They were deluged with what the French call le corbeau , poison-pen letters accusing neighbours , business competitors and colleagues of everything from listening to the BBC to being an active resistant ( of whom there were , in fact , very few indeed until the eve of the Liberation ) . |
| 4 | His retirement years were marked by what the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 20 described as " a consistent championship of causes " . |
| 5 | In 1987 , new air quality standards for particulates were introduced in which the total suspended particulate ( TSP ) standard ( which included particles as large as 100 um ) was replaced by the PM 10 standard ( particles less than 10 um in diameter ) since small particles are considered to pose a greater threat to health than large particles . |
| 6 | Of particular importance to the subject of this paper , they emphasize in their summary that the client in the studies reviewed ‘ is engaged as a voluntary collaborator ’ , and his ‘ motivations were directed toward what the social workers were attempting to provide ’ . |
| 7 | Three logistic regressions were conducted in which the oesophageal mucosal status was a dichotomous criterion variable . |
| 8 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 9 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 10 | At noon on Sunday 18 November 1883 , all the public clocks in North America were changed to what the New York Herald called ‘ the new standard of time agreed upon … as an obvious convenience in all social and business matters ’ . |
| 11 | More than 1,000 others were murdered with what the FBI calls ‘ personal weapons ’ ; ie , hands , feet , fists . |
| 12 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 13 | The first of these reports was given on July 2 by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , who was heard in what the Independent of the following day described as an atmosphere of " chilly disdain " . |
| 14 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 15 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 16 | Although this treatment was undoubtedly efficacious in some cases , the patients ended up with malaria , and so a ‘ fever box ’ was developed in which the patient 's temperature could be maintained at over 106°F for several hours . |
| 17 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
| 18 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 19 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
| 20 | Therefore at the Jamaica Conference of the IMF in January 1976 a second amendment to the articles of agreement ( the first amendment being the introduction of SDRs ) was made by which the system of floating exchange rates was legalized . |
| 21 | In the case of ordering YAC probes , a modified distance measure was used in which the influence of each cosmid clone c was weighted in proportion to 1/n c , where n c is the number of YAC probes positive for that cosmid clone . |
| 22 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 23 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |
| 24 | and was to do with what the rights would be erm in terms of benefits and in terms of compensation from the council when they moved out . |
| 25 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 26 | Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission . |
| 27 | Evidence from Brean Down , Somerset , is not so clear , but there were drastic changes , and evidence of demolition was followed by what the excavator , A. M. ApSimon , depicts as ‘ squatter occupation ’ . |
| 28 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 29 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 30 | Or , in mystic vein , an order of being was glimpsed in which the 1840s , the 1860s , nihilism , Bazarov , found themselves apocalyptically and teleologically disposed — those two polysyllabic adverbs embracing and transcended all nature , including futurity . |