Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the culture which nourished him , to refuse this act of faith : to insist , with all his brilliance as a painter , that there was nothing behind , that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us . |
| 2 | They started to put up big screens behind the altar blocking off some of the stained glass and writing on those big screens the Creed or the Lord 's Prayer in English , which was done in the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Furthermore , there was an insufficient degree of regularity to make the purchase of the car by the plaintiffs something which was done in the course of their business . |
| 4 | Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ? |
| 5 | What was done with the calf |
| 6 | We wish we could publish an account of what was done with the money . |
| 7 | But when ( 36 ) is taken as containing a real , passive , verbal notion the question will be something like ( 38 ) ( a ) or ( b ) ; and ( c ) will also be a reasonable response : ( 38 ) ( a ) what happened to the façade ? ( b ) what was done to the façade ? ( c ) when was the façade plastered ? |
| 8 | What was done by the Whips was done in the name of the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Moreover he argued before the judge that if any of these three sections applied to what was done by the respondent in the present case , the relevant one was section 3 and not section 1 . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-West contrasted that with what was done by the great reforming Government of 1945 , who put through the House a huge weight of measures . |
| 11 | I have great misgivings about what was done by the previous Labour Government . |