Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] [was/were] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was called ‘ The Countryside in 1970 ’ because the mood of the time was predominantly one of unease and anxiety about what was happening to the countryside . |
| 2 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 3 | We have produced reports year after year expressing anxiety at what was happening to the British coal industry . |
| 4 | Pascoe changed his mind about the coffee ; anything to distract his body from what was happening to it . |
| 5 | She tried to be a strength for her daughter , but was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening to them all . |
| 6 | Without a knowledge of what was happening to Germanic diphthongs and vowels in the Dark Ages , however , even a clever pupil at Oxford in those days would have done badly . |
| 7 | Then Jeremiah launched into a prayer of complaint about what was happening to him . |
| 8 | Some knew about the various methods of pain relief available , but others had no idea at all , and this made them feel even less in control of what was happening to them . |
| 9 | Any thought of what was to happen to his family home in Belfast had to be shelved until a joint decision could be reached with his brother when he next came home on leave . |
| 10 | The speech therapist confirmed that Mr Y. had only limited understanding of what was happening to him . |
| 11 | Our understanding of what was happening to party politics under William and Anne can only be complete when we consider the wider world outside Westminster , which will be the subject of the following chapter . |
| 12 | The reality of what was happening to John either played on people 's own experience of terrible loss and final separation , or the fear of it , which haunts us all . |
| 13 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 14 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 15 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 16 | These writers , of whom Marx ( 1818–83 ) , Weber ( 1864–1920 ) , and Durkheim ( 1858–1917 ) are usually regarded as the most important , were essentially theorists , who based their analysis of what was happening to the rapidly changing European societies of that time on evidence from historians and other sources rather than on their own original research . |
| 17 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |
| 18 | In the first place , we should not paint too pessimistic a view of what was happening to the landed classes , since the experiences of this group varied considerably from region to region . |