Example sentences of "what [was/were] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco 's concern with internal equilibrium was also reflected in the occupants of what were arguably the two most important cabinet posts . |
| 2 | The courtyard was surrounded by what were presumably the inner walls of the palace . |
| 3 | One of Mozart 's contemporaries summed up what were probably the feelings of many fellow-musicians on hearing the news of his death : it was , of course , a pity that such a great genius was dead , but on the whole it was a good thing for the others . |
| 4 | What were probably the most important characteristics of the era , the social and political attitudes , are not fossilisable at all . |
| 5 | That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units . |
| 6 | You 're in your opinion what do you what were what were generally the motivation behind the girls becoming prostitutes , I mean was it |
| 7 | Harriet showed a keen interest in what were plainly a male leopard 's calling cards , his scent marks on trees and bushes . |
| 8 | This can be seen in figure 7.2 , which shows how manufacturing employment in the 1960s and 1970s grew most dramatically in what were basically the more rural parts of the country . |
| 9 | By 1960 Jean Rychner produced a valuable study of how certain types of variation in the textual transmission of what were essentially the same fabliaux could be explained in terms of their being aimed at specific , and differing , audiences rather than through random mutilation and degeneration . |
| 10 | This wide boulevard forms the impressive ( some would say interminable ) Viale delle Regioni , which winds its way for miles through what were once the Milanese suburbs , and which today form an area close to the heart of metropolitan Milan . |
| 11 | In Manhattan , the famous yellow water-taxis thread their way through the grid of canals to take you directly to the landing-stage of hotels in the luxuriously converted upper storeys of what were once the city 's proudest skyscrapers . |
| 12 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 13 | The transnational capitalist class is a bridge between the nation-state and the global system and the more assiduously it brings transnational practices into what were once the realm of the regional or the national , then the more faithfully it serves the interests of the system . |
| 14 | The deeply moated site of the former manor house marks the edge of the old settlement ; sheep now graze peacefully over the remains of the village and over the ridge and furrow patterns of what were once the communal arable fields . |
| 15 | He was therefore reduced to spending most of his weekends during the session in what were then the fairly cramped quarters of 11 Downing Street and what , then as more recently , was its unrestful and unrefreshing atmosphere . |
| 16 | And he needed to judge what voluntary-aided status meant to a newly combined school in what were then the 1980s . |
| 17 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 18 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 19 | Just over 100 years ago in 1890 , George Eastman , the bank clerk who turned his hobby into a world-wide business , bought the land in what were then the fields of North West London . |
| 20 | Just as Rachel gave Hollywood an inkling of his class , and Desert Rats reassured them as to his reliability , The Robe showed that he could almost carry what were really the worn-out carcases of a clapped-out era . |
| 21 | Irked by their failure to secure full English support for Habsburg policies , they may have attributed to factiousness and incompetence what was simply a sensible reluctance to tie England too closely to the Imperial coat-tails . |
| 22 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 23 | Leavis 's tirade against such students was an insensitive treatment of what was already a sensitive topic , and is now far more so . |
| 24 | That left Mr Ishihara with just half of what was already a short book . |
| 25 | In fact Meadowell is an Elastoplast name like Sizewell , invented in the 1970s to disguise what was already a running sore . |
| 26 | Mistakes and botched work thus slowed down production at what was already a natural bottleneck . |
| 27 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 28 | Massive deforestation in the Himalayan foothills during the 1980s had aggravated what was already a serious problem in Bangladesh . |
| 29 | For O'Neal , the film simply meant sharpening up on what was already a hobby , but for French actor-singer Aznavour and unknown Aborigine postman Compton the physical demands were more exacting . |
| 30 | In fact , he was very much the resident funny man in what was already a very amusing show indeed . |