Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere in this issue you will read of the latest Economist survey of Britain 's survey of Britain 's Most Admired Companies in which we were placed third overall ; top in our business sector ; top in quality of management ; and second in our quality of marketing . |
| 2 | For Bataille , the ultimate destination of rational thought is the revelation that we know and can know nothing , beyond the realization that all the towering projections of the human spirit are based on a primary denial of the abyss out of which we were formed . |
| 3 | Nor can such a power be inferred from , for example , regulation 3C(6) of the 1991 Regulations to which we were referred . |
| 4 | In each of the authorities to which we were referred , and in particular in Gallie v. Lee , the doctrine of non est factum is explained in different words by different judges , but with a striking uniformity of concept and of emphasis . |
| 5 | I only add a few words of my own out of deference to the contrary view expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Lowry , and to consider the cases on thefts from companies to which we were referred in the course of argument . |
| 6 | I was a police officer erm attached or er on a permanent basis with the operations support unit which we were based in er . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not myself feel justified in attaching much weight to the tenuous evidence upon which we were invited to find that the plaintiffs made their payments because of apprehensions induced by words or conduct of state officials that vehicles would or might be seized and detained under section 47 . |
| 8 | Listening on one occasion to a Greek Orthodox argue against the ordination of women , I had the distinct impression that his God , who seemed to reside immediately above the ceiling of the room in which we were gathered , had issued the most precise directions to humanity . |
| 9 | When they got to the bedroom , further surprises awaited them : ‘ Out of one of the beds , on which we were to repose , started up , at our entrance , a man black as Cyclops from the forge . ’ |
| 10 | It was no different to the building in which we were hiding . |
| 11 | These traditions were encapsulated in everything which we did and which we were taught . |
| 12 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 13 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 14 | At the time when we were at work , interest in what we did was widespread and encouraging because the area in which we were engaged and the questions we addressed seemed to many people important . |
| 15 | It is on behalf of the latter that we should have had an opportunity of voting in Committee , which we were denied , and that we should have an opportunity tonight to vote in the House . |
| 16 | He writes : ‘ among [ the Dinka ] I had that experience of daily conversation which enables one to discriminate , as we take for granted in the language into which we were born , between what people mean and what they say . |
| 17 | It can be painful to leave the house in which we were born or the house in which our children were born . |
| 18 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 19 | The opinion of the Parliament at that time was to support the changes which we were seeking but the immediate reaction from the European Commission was not to accept the opinion of the Parliament . |
| 20 | I developed a sore hamstring but still ran the relay in which we were disqualified , much to Frank Dick 's very obvious disgust . |
| 21 | Information on crofting income is limited , but we were given data for two examples , which we were warned are not typical . |
| 22 | What we have dreams of , what we have hardly dared to hope , but towards which we were straining all our will and all our strength , was coming into being over there . " |
| 23 | The , the cooker which we were buying quarterly , ca n't have a mortgage . |
| 24 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 25 | We are regaining that earthly paradise from which we were banished as we grew up , but at the cost of disturbances in our relations to reality , and in increasing pressures of hostility and anxiety ’ |
| 26 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 27 | The specified conditions as to the amount of supply that could be sold off , were ones to which we were asked to agree — conditions to be applicable to all bidders — before the Government would even consider pursuing the possibility of a private sale . |
| 28 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 29 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 30 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |