Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing in the final results leads you to sense of how it was achieved . |
| 2 | So it is suggested that the Zuwaya image of statelessness was substantially a replica of how their ancestors conceived their society ought to have been , rather than a true and accurate picture of how it was . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the Forest fell into the background of national history : there are infrequent glimpses of how it was affected by the general lawlessness and violence of the times . |
| 4 | He was avid for news of how it was all going , and regretting that he could n't be part of it . |
| 5 | It just seemed to form the basis of how it was going to be . |
| 6 | This must be a taste of how it was to be a Marine in armour , whose servo-suit responded to the motions of his body , magnifying these … |
| 7 | They show not what was known about the event , but only some aspects of how it was talked about ’ . |
| 8 | I rather got the impression that they would take him er , er , continue interest in what would happen , I 've got the impression they have a representative here to give their view of how it was er |
| 9 | The TVS producer had had the idea of asking Hyacinth to play the role of ‘ guest interviewer ’ and had spent an hour or so that morning , showing her something of how it was done . |
| 10 | Those that survived — particularly those that both survived and thrived , as in ancient Egypt — have left us ample evidence both of the danger , and of how it was met . |
| 11 | The English were in fact trying to claim the authentic characteristics of a nation irrespective of how it was defined , including an attempt to cover English claims over Scotland and Ireland , despite the absence of any ‘ habit of unity ’ in the former case or of a shared language in the latter . |
| 12 | Greenpeace has little idea of how radioactive the waste was in the four incidents described , or of how it was sealed in protective casing . |
| 13 | Where you think that one of your disbursements is likely to be challenged you should get the expert to produce a breakdown of how it was that the fees came to be charged , whether on a fixed rate basis or an hourly charge basis , and this should be available to disclose to the opposition and to be used on taxation . |
| 14 | Mauchline Ware , as it is known , irrespective of where it was made , was produced for over 100 years and in that time millions of items must have been manufactured and distributed around the world . |
| 15 | He suggested that to get around the problem , duplicate publication of such papers should be allowed in national journals , with a clear statement of where it was originally published . |
| 16 | I think a lot of it is a case of pressure Peter , you know if the girls want to make twenty five appointments that week , if they 've got an appointment , yes , I 'll have it in , regardless of where it was , they would . |
| 17 | As the ball fell between the two Scots , Karlheinz Riedle arrived with clear knowledge of where it was going and quickly dispatched it . |
| 18 | To recognise the failure is only to raise , once again , the question of why it was so ? |
| 19 | If you are absent without prior approval we will consider you to be taking unauthorised absence unless you provide a satisfactory explanation of why it was not possible to obtain approval in advance . |
| 20 | Industrial tribunals as we heard yesterday from Ian have decided they were wrongly dismissed and that indicates the standard of the union locally but poses the question of why it was impossible for our officials , from the General Secretary downwards , to effect any influence whatsoever on the attitude of Liverpool City Council . |
| 21 | The future must take care of when it was that the appellant would be released . |
| 22 | Later , the bowl was sold by the Silberysen family , and was next heard of when it was acquired by the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 23 | Later when we were enjoying a beer with the station commander were we nearly disposed of when it was announced that the Stirling had clobbered a Coles crane , an ambulance , several minor vehicles and the CO 's Humber . |
| 24 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 25 | It came out of what we saw going on , the increasing pressure on kids today compared with how it was when we were growing up . |
| 26 | It helped with how it was presented and may be cutting down on what was presented . |
| 27 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 28 | It then sketches in how it was that ‘ race ’ came to be constructed as a significant educational issue at all . |
| 29 | The scheme has recently been improved to include criteria for judging a product at all stages in its life , from how it was made , to its impact on the environment after it has been sold . |
| 30 | The Mimicke Dog was thought to be raised by apes in Africa , from whence it was imported to England as a treasure for Queen Elizabeth I. |