Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] what the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one organisation wrote to the Home Secretary indicating they were supporting what the Government is now putting for the House . |
| 2 | I think the answer is that simply as it who were doing what the name would otherwise have done , erm for the reasons your Lordship has given and , and your Lordship has seen of course that the analysis of the relationship between the name and the agent , erm , certainly as far as Mr is concerned , indeed we said it certainly it follows from what , what article eighty five does , it does n't effect the extensible authority point but and the |
| 3 | He said that he wondered whether the government had lost control of the security forces or whether the security forces were doing what the government wanted . |
| 4 | Well that 's right , I mean were see what the weather 's like . |
| 5 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
| 6 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 7 | This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics . |
| 8 | He was doing what the saint willed . ’ |
| 9 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
| 10 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |
| 11 | He was feeling what the laser would have felt , had it been of flesh and bone . |
| 12 | The main thrust of the campaign , designed by the United Kingdom-based advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi , was to reveal what the government believed the scenario would be if the white electorate voted " no " . |