Example sentences of "were [det] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was because the landscape is flat , or gently undulating , and so there were few places which specially attracted people . |
| 2 | Also there were few places which were unsuitable , or repelled people . |
| 3 | As with the indecent assaults on males , there were few headlines which dwelt on the theme of sex fiends and sex beasts . |
| 4 | There were some problems which the Public Assistance Committee was able to unload without regret . |
| 5 | Some parts of the country showed more significant growth than others : on the east coast , the number of sailings not only rose in absolute terms between the 1460s and the early sixteenth century , but the proportion of those by English ships approximately doubled , although there were some exports which were largely carried in foreign vessels . |
| 6 | Lying near it were some plates which had been washed and left to drain , and beside them stood the most delicate of porcelain cups . |
| 7 | While they were working on this case there were some things which Nikos had better not know . |
| 8 | Again , though , there were some things which she was not well enough acquainted with him to mention — especially now that she knew who her Good Samaritan of yesterday was . |
| 9 | ‘ Last summer , before the markets looked up , there were some companies whose solvency margins looked very thin and Scottish Equitable were towards the bottom of these . |
| 10 | Well , you had to feed it you know erm Then there was this erm er sort of a whipping in in there was a long trough leading to the knife and then there were some cogwheels which pulled it into the knife . |
| 11 | Mrs. Mirjam Foot of the British Library ( and currently Editor of the British Library Journal ) who kindly looked into the problem for me , pointed out that while there were some stationers whose initials and dates fitted , such as Richard Baldwyn , who worked in London till 1590 , there is no evidence of any one of them having been a bookbinder . |
| 12 | Although these troubles occurred in the city , foreigners were also attacked at times of peasant rioting when the rebels came to London , so it is clear that there were some sentiments which were shared by townsmen and countrymen alike . |
| 13 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 14 | This discourse of ‘ as good as a man ’ was to recur frequently in interviews with the women ; certainly there were some schools which had taught their pupils to think in those terms . |
| 15 | Had All Souls been lost , the Church authorities would undoubtedly have used it as a precedent for arguing that there were some churches which , however important , were simply too difficult or expensive to save . |
| 16 | Parkside were another team which benefitted from batting second , they put visitors Fisons in to bat and bowled then out for 62 , knocking off the runs for the loss of only one wicket . |
| 17 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 18 | Thus the interactions were all things which did not clearly put one of the protagonists in an agent position and the other in a patient position . |
| 19 | The undertaking of the welfare of illegitimate children of soldiers who had been killed , the organization of accommodation and support for those evacuated from the western borders of the Reich already in autumn 1939 , or the administration of packages to be sent to relatives at the Front , were all tasks which fell to the Nazi welfare organization , the NSV . |
| 20 | These were all forms which failed towards the end of the Cretaceous , except for the crocodilian which still live on , virtually unchanged , today . |
| 21 | Changes in costs and relative prices , stimulation of new technology and the general level of economic growth , were all factors which would determine the employment consequences of the Single Market . |
| 22 | They were all offices which indicated that he was held in good regard , but not considered a serious candidate for major political advancement . |
| 23 | And er th they were all people whose husbands were in the Forces fighting |
| 24 | As we have already mentioned , there were many factors which contributed to the trends to ‘ total war ’ in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 25 | There were many factors which contributed to the ‘ speed of response ’ , Mr Vernon went on , outlining the progress the RNLI is making to improve it . |
| 26 | There were many questions which the general had failed to answer in his summary of these crimes . |
| 27 | This libretto is based on the revised version published in 1961 but there were many phrases which had been altered when set to music , and the final text has been preferred here . |
| 28 | In doing this it would have been helpful to include profitability or value added as the independent variable but in all countries there were many companies which did not know or would not release these figures in relation to individual products . |
| 29 | Yes er although let me say this , that er there were many things which the management were required to do , for example , when we , when we went to our monthly meetings with them , we established monthly meetings with the management , one , in order to try and control from our side , er the , to have some control on the production er side of things . |
| 30 | There were many weaknesses which could not be cured . |