Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arch-deacons were supposed to have what information was available . |
| 2 | Whenever posts were internally advertised rumour was rife as staff were quick to identify whose experience came nearest to the job description to make them a likely candidate for the post . |
| 3 | ‘ The agency were unable to estimate what proportion may prove to be untraceable or otherwise impracticable to pursue and would therefore have to be written off . |
| 4 | The smaller , regional companies , that filled the gaps in the system between 1957 and 1962 , escaped this traumatic experience and were able to enjoy what Roy Thomson , owner of Scottish Television , unwisely described as a ‘ licence to print money ’ . |
| 5 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 6 | However , primary school teachers attending an INSET course were able to determine what strategies were adopted by most of the children in their classes . |
| 7 | Students were able to note which points were stressed by the lecturer and staff were able to obtain some feedback from the students . |
| 8 | Signor and Signora Banterle were anxious to see what sort of strange guest had been picked for them , and I was equally anxious to find out about them — especially after some of the experiences of my schooldays in Parma . |
| 9 | Once the Government announced its intention to withdraw clause 54(4) a number of Members were anxious to elucidate what effect this would have on classes of taxpayers who enjoyed in-house benefits : concessionary transport for railwaymen , airline employees and merchant seamen ; concessionary accommodation for hotel employees ; concessionary education for the children of teachers . |
| 10 | The Exchange spotted that Barlow Clowes ' accounts were silent on the question of whether its investors ' funds were sufficient to cover what savers were entitled to . |
| 11 | The English Vice-Governor of the Galapagos told Darwin that even within the archipelago , there was variety : the tortoises on each island were slightly different , so that it was possible to tell which island they came from . |
| 12 | So , I mean having said , you know , that he was interested to hear what kind of parish , I mean it was , it was obvious that it would also depend on who was available . |
| 13 | She did not bother to ask herself whether Holly would have done what she was being asked to do , or whether it was sensible to care what Holly thought . |
| 14 | WHILE the voters voted and the counters counted , it was instructive to note what TV fare our opinion formers thought fit to celebrate the nation 's release from the 1992 Election . |
| 15 | When the case came to court , the magistrate evidently decided that it was impossible to say which party was to blame in a scuffle of this sort . |
| 16 | Mr MacKay said that it was impossible to identify what skills workers in Wales would require by 2000 because of the pace of change . |
| 17 | It was impossible to know which direction they were going in . |
| 18 | Thus J. S. Mill , the leading theoretician of liberal feminism , stressed that it was impossible to know what women 's true capacities were because of their inferior education . |
| 19 | But Labour 's deputy leader of the council , Alan Dean , said it was impossible to know what effect the level of government finance , pay settlements and competitive tendering would have on the council 's ability to guarantee jobs . |
| 20 | It was impossible to tell what part of the house it had been . |
| 21 | In the still warmth of the car , bathed in the calm green glow of the instrument panel , it was impossible to imagine what conditions were like out there . |
| 22 | He told himself that it was pointless to speculate what difference , if any , this would make to the investigation . |
| 23 | Thus we were told that , since the timetable was only used ‘ by enthusiasts and the travel trade ’ , it was pointless to indicate which trains had meal service , and while vital to show which services were operated by Sprinters nobody was interested in which were HSTs . |
| 24 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 25 | It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns . |
| 26 | It was hard to see what future there could be for the embittered and ranting Nazi or his new and pretty wife , other than a steady descent into the poverty of hired rooms and unpaid bills . |
| 27 | It was hard to tell what time of day it was . |
| 28 | She was intrigued to know what sort of a woman could handle Alain Lemarchand and she had intended to linger and find out . |
| 29 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |
| 30 | This year 's chairman of the Pimlico Connection , Giancarlo Marcheselli , was curious to know what teaching would be like , and thought it would be a way of doing something useful to complement the years as a student ‘ where everything you do is for yourself ’ . |