Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different books of the New Testament have different ways of describing the indescribable , that is , the nature of Christ , and the first three centuries of Christendom are a history of ceaseless dispute among the most learned doctors of the Church as to what this nature was , and how it was made manifest during the period of the Incarnation . |
| 2 | However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past . |
| 3 | I do n't know what was the reason in this case , but in any event when ops were cancelled like this , late in the day when it was getting dark , for reasons of safety the armourers waited for daylight before de-bombing the aircraft . |
| 4 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 5 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 6 | If we are to believe late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century etiquette writers ( which I do n't altogether ) this was a period when it was thought gross to talk about food except to your cook , and in bad taste to discuss your host 's wine . |
| 7 | Mentally handicapped people were first admitted to mental hospitals as a policy of segregation at a time when it was thought most prudent to contain such people in institutions rather than permit them to roam freely in society . |
| 8 | Set in the charged atmosphere of a thirties New York summer , Rocket to the Moon is a tale of romance , stifled sexuality and thwarted ambition … at a time when it was considered next to impossible that a rocket could reach the moon . |
| 9 | Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out . |
| 10 | A HINDU temple became the latest target for religious violence yesterday when it was set alight in the early hours . |
| 11 | Did you go to the sort of school where it was made easy to go into science , or did you go to the sort of school where nice girls did the arts or something quite different ? |
| 12 | They were the main enemies of the predominant sect , the Pharisees , who believed that salvation would only come if they adhered strictly to the Mosaic law , as originally set out in Deuteronomy where it was made clear that the chosen people must be a ‘ clean ’ people . |
| 13 | Gloria drank first , from the top where it was scalding hot . |
| 14 | Yes , where , sorry , Ian Smith , Ryedale District , yes , er where it was considered those allocated sites could be developed without extending development into the greenbelt . |
| 15 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 16 | I suppose that in some recess of his mind he was recalling the old cliché about honours being handed out like lollipops , but the more I look at the sentence the less I understand what he was on about or why it was considered worthy of preserving in print . |
| 17 | This will happen even though the reasoner would , in principle , be capable of stating why it was rejecting each reading . |
| 18 | The breadth of the catch-all provision was , I imagine , the reason why it was thought appropriate to make the power exercisable ‘ where … it may be deemed just to rectify the register . ’ |
| 19 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 20 | Introduction — which places the work in a historical context and explains why it was thought important and worthwhile . |