Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was further informed that the main charge against him was amended to what in reality was a new charge . |
| 2 | Maurice looked hurt at the very suggestion and suddenly Charlotte felt she was seeing beyond what had once been opaque but was now transparent into the cogs and coils of her brother 's mind . |
| 3 | When it came time to actually record the chosen composite solo , each note was checked over what seemed like millions of times . |
| 4 | He guessed she was mulling over what Parkin had told them and garnering any remaining questions . |
| 5 | This is reflected in the intentions of journals and in 1947 in the Journal of Glaciology the content of a leaflet issued by the British Glaciological Society was recalled in which |
| 6 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 7 | The giant , who by now had reached her , was maddened with what he saw and battered her to death with his club . |
| 8 | The first of these reports was given on July 2 by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , who was heard in what the Independent of the following day described as an atmosphere of " chilly disdain " . |
| 9 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 10 | The trouble with these schemes is that insufficient thought was given to what they were supposed to achieve , and they inevitably perpetuated and reinforced the view of ‘ otherness ’ . |
| 11 | Cynthia was given to what used to be known as the ‘ vapours ’ . |
| 12 | No consideration was given to what would happen to those working in the industry , their families or communities . |
| 13 | More detailed guidance was given about what should be included under this heading , and a minimum disclosure requirement proposed . |
| 14 | It is difficult to assess what one learns from a good teacher — I was so greedy to learn that one can not always separate what was given from what one has seized upon and made one 's own . |
| 15 | The aim of the research was to see in which areas of the financial world the firm 's services were most needed . |
| 16 | If in one way he seemed much more human , more normally fallible , than before , that was tainted by what seemed like a lack of virginity in the telling . |
| 17 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 18 | Insofar as he separated science from religion , he — like Francis Bacon — was reacting against what he perceived to be excessive conflation in certain spiritualist philosophies . |
| 19 | At the time , his letter was criticized for what one Gaullist called its " artificial optimism " . |
| 20 | No radical reform was undertaken of what should be taught , or how what was taught should be valued . |
| 21 | Another group , exclusively male , was gathered around what Sendei guessed was a highly advanced piece of technology . |
| 22 | He was assigned to what was vaguely described as ‘ guard duty , ’ warned not to talk about his work and taken down to the basement to start . |
| 23 | The effect was somewhat marred , though , in that the fireplace did n't have a grate or anything , it was filled with what I hoped was a model of a two-inch mortar . |
| 24 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 25 | In 1976 , a new branch was developed at which , when it opened in 1980 , housed the business of the West End Office , Shandwick Place Branch , Princes Street West and Ladies Branch . |
| 26 | Although this treatment was undoubtedly efficacious in some cases , the patients ended up with malaria , and so a ‘ fever box ’ was developed in which the patient 's temperature could be maintained at over 106°F for several hours . |
| 27 | A night fighting variant , the Firefly NF.II , was developed in which an 18° extension was incorporated aft of the engine firewall to compensate for an alteration in the aircraft 's centre of gravity . |
| 28 | The argument arises from the fact that patristics was developed within what was philosophically a Platonist tradition . |
| 29 | On January his seclusion was broken for what is called a " photo opportunity " at king Hassans winter palace outside Marrakesh . |
| 30 | Whereas many such attempts embodied a somewhat static view of the pressure distribution , this was succeeded by what Barry and Perry ( 1973 ) termed a kinematic view of the weather map in which the synoptic weather map is viewed in terms of airflow and the movement of pressure systems . |