Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [coord] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was followed soon after by penicillin and then a host of other antibiotics , very many of which are or were effective in the treatment of gonorrhoea . |
| 2 | As the argument began to centre on what was or was not ‘ damage ’ , the Commission pinned its definition to the yellowing of conifer needles . |
| 3 | Most outsiders — this newspaper included — have had different ideas at different times of what was or was not desirable or feasible . |
| 4 | Inevitably , the boundaries of what was and was not considered permissible in village life were much clearer in the nineteenth century , as they were in Victorian society generally . |
| 5 | Inevitably the boundaries of what was and was not considered permissible in village life were much clearer in the nineteenth century , as they were in Victorian society generally . |
| 6 | He had obviously not allowed his degree course to affect his view of what was and was not possible in the physical world . |
| 7 | A court or tribunal , trying to apply such a charge , might rely on its gut feeling as to what was and was not proper . |