Example sentences of "what [was/were] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So , what were a few lice ?
2 After all , what were a theorist 's research results worth compared with a lifetime of experience in electricity supply ?
3 What were a few herring ?
4 What were a crocodile 's testicles and alligator 's tail used for ?
5 Thus , when my boy Charlie says , ‘ What were the Sixties like , Daddy ? ’
6 What were the relationships between the politics , policy , and theory of Keynesianism in its golden age ?
7 What were the main illnesses people suffered from ?
8 But what were the revolutionary contents of the Speciale ?
9 What were the implications of this for the process of commercialization ?
10 What were the two of you up to ? ’
11 He expected talks last night between Forum and the small non-Communist parties to see what were the possibilities .
12 What were the reasons for Britain 's declining population growth rate ?
13 What were the social and economic implications of the slow down in population growth ?
14 What were the stewards thinking about ?
15 If you failed , what were the reasons that you failed ?
16 What were the significant events happening in your life at the time ?
17 If trees were once common , what were the major species — birch , hazel , rowan , oak , elm , alder , pine ?
18 And what were the implications of these traditional roles for grandparenthood ?
19 What were the medical applications of , say , arsenic ?
20 Christ , what were the major poisons ?
21 After all , what were the reasons for not allowing her to travel alone ?
22 What were the advantages of placing the British Aerospace factories where they are on the map ?
23 What were the conditions like when each of the rock series A , B and C were being formed ?
24 We were sent out in pairs after 6 pm in the evening when all the paterfamilias who were left might be at home , to make a thorough census of the district and ask who might be in a house , when , and what were the provisions for even more serious raiding .
25 What were the special environmental ingredients that built on the latent in-born talents ?
26 What were the sources of these predictions ?
27 What were the terms ?
28 The revolutionary left has been profoundly disoriented by the crisis in state-run economies both in Latin America and , even more graphically , in what were the Soviet Union and eastern Europe .
29 The proper approach was to ascertain what were the operations which produced the relevant profits , and where those operations took place .
30 What were the animals to do ?
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