Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new regulation which followed was a response not only to Big Bang , financial conglomerates and conflicts of interest , but was initially meant as a thorough overhaul of the regulation of the UK financial markets . |
| 2 | Among the numerous pieces of legislation which followed was a law passed in Pennsylvania [ see pp. 38714-15 ; see also below ] ; its five key provisions |
| 3 | The work which awaited was a panel depicting typical Algarve scenes — fishing boats beside a jetty , orange groves , a row of picturesque village houses — which had been commissioned to grace the lobby of a nearby hotel , and now she mixed colours . |
| 4 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 5 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 6 | In the event , what happened was a strengthening of those personal feelings ( " I love the Greeks more and more " ) . |
| 7 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
| 8 | A ‘ Big Breakfast ’ it may have been , but when Chris Evans left after the show on April 18 , what followed was a case of scrambled identity , not scrambled eggs . |
| 9 | What followed was a delight — an inner peace . |
| 10 | His party made their way on to the airfield without difficulty and what followed was a foretaste of Paddy Mayne 's style . |
| 11 | What followed was a display of tumbling combined with erotic exhibitionism . |
| 12 | ‘ What existed was a manuscript he began in prison about twenty years ago , ’ Gordon says . |
| 13 | What emerged was a scheme which struggled to combine the advantages of size with the effective intimacy of small communities , in which each pupil would be known and would count . |
| 14 | What emerged was a scheme that sought the development of ‘ character ’ , partly through the expectation of certain standards of behaviour ( a kind of esprit de corps ) , and partly through doing ( activities ) . |
| 15 | What emerged was a system that also became known by its initials , PAR — programme analysis and review . |
| 16 | What emerged was a declaration broadly supporting the anti-crisis programme , but altering it in several crucial respects . |