Example sentences of "[Wh det] the [noun sg] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the weekend , the Unionist Whips decided that they had taken things far enough , having wasted an entire week of parliamentary time and given their supporters a sign of the vigour with which the fight was being waged . |
| 2 | The extent to which the landscape was being farmed and the efficiency of agricultural practices may be measured by the frequency with which farms were abandoned for new sites . |
| 3 | Books and pamphlets directed at children and parents , conferences and public meetings , together with the formation of influential pressure groups , all testified to the seriousness with which the issue was being treated . |
| 4 | They were the framework through which the region was being administered . |
| 5 | Jonathan Scott , Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art has produced another of his elegantly written reports on how successful or otherwise Britain has been at retaining its preeminent works of art : the tally , eighteen out of forty-four retained — that is , a public institution or , in the case of the Delander stick barometer , a private citizen , has matched the price at which the item was being exported . |
| 6 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 7 | I erm actually went back to the room to see erm what condition or what the child was was doing there . |
| 8 | Feeling there was a gap in the market between what was good advice on skin care and what the public was being given , she interviewed leading New York dermatologists and wrote a very honest feature entitled ‘ Can a Great Skin be Created ? ’ |