Example sentences of "with [Wh det] was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successive Secretaries of State have stated that only by the unvarying observance of this practice is it possible to ensure that in no circumstances is anything said or not said which , by comparison with what was said on a different occasion , might imply that a warrant had or had not been issued . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Moral behaviour was behaviour that accorded with what was expected from a particular social role or situation , and could not be defined outside the social context . |
| 4 | Something snapped inside her and she found herself grabbing the mutton and wresting the plate , with what was left of the uncut joint still on it , and running with it from his crazed presence . |
| 5 | Before they went to bed they had filled buckets with what was left of the pool to use in the lavatories . |
| 6 | And after her first day 's work , which proved her promise that she liked housework , Peggy plied her with what was left of the Christmas fare . |
| 7 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
| 8 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 9 | Thus Hamilton cruised up and down the coast , out of touch with what was happening on the beaches . |
| 10 | Accusing the National Farmers Unions of both Scotland and England of being too parochial and not au fait with what was happening on the agricultural scene in the rest of Europe , Gerald Biffen , Mains of Arnage , Ellon , said Scottish farmers should take the initiative and send a party of working members to undertake a study tour in selected areas . |
| 11 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 12 | Mach was unhappy with what was happening in the Ping Tiao . |
| 13 | In the 1950s and 1960s the annual rate of British price rises was modest by comparison with what was to follow in the 1970s . |
| 14 | A rich and powerful odour , not unpleasant outside here in the yard where the air was already scented with manure and compost , with the melons ripening in the wire garde-manger , with whatever was rotting in the dustbins . |