Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] was [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could sense some undercurrent of tension which she was at a loss to explain . |
| 2 | He was a prolific writer of learned articles in the Veterinarian of which he was for a time co-editor , and his classical education is reflected in his thoughtful commentaries . |
| 3 | tell you what I was in a bath this morning |
| 4 | However , cultural Russification directly threatened those who claimed to carry the cultural traditions of the minority peoples , from the priesthood to what there was of a modern intelligentsia . |
| 5 | Now I knew him for what he was as a right softly softly . |
| 6 | In the latter half of the nineteenth century there was considerable controversy as to what it was about a sensation , which differed according to the part of the body stimulated . |
| 7 | Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else . |