Example sentences of "to [Wh det] [was/were] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm that being the case , if if those objections were were sustained , er you know , going back to what was was said last week , then I think Selby might be in difficulties in in meeting its housing requirement . |
| 2 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 3 | But there is no such careful blending of ingredients in Tetley 's Dances of Albion where the singer 's words of the traditional ‘ Lye Wake Dirge ’ bore no relation to what was being danced on stage . |
| 4 | Even in those large congregations all the bidding prayers are spontaneous , beautifully prayed and with everyone obviously listening to what was being said . |
| 5 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 6 | When his father began talking again , a little irritated frown wrinkled his smooth young brow , but although he made a great play of concentrating fiercely on his reading , he still listened carefully from behind the book to what was being said . |
| 7 | And this time , without the distraction of her friends giggling in the background , she actually listened to what was being said , becoming absorbed in the detached examination of her character by a stranger . |
| 8 | Tallis moved quietly round the house and came up behind the hunter ; she sat on the rush matting and hugged her knees , listening to what was being said . |
| 9 | And those date from a nineteen ninety one base , as compared to what was being forecast from the nineteen eighty nine . |
| 10 | With respect er I was n't paying too much attention to er to what was being said in as much as this possibly sounds negative but our concern is not for what people are shouting at us our concern is for whether we 've got a threat er in a particular area , in this case the bedroom , and whether we can try and sort that threat out before somebody is injured . |
| 11 | What I do n't quite understand is what was the legal basis on which they went ahead with this despite the objection , presumably as some of the trustees as to what was being done , I could hear we 're talking of er a deficit of one point seven billion appearing or it a surplus disappearing into a deficit , which is actually four times as much has disappeared out of Maxwell . |