Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany , the principal ex-enemy state , lying at the heart of Europe , presented complex problems in 1945 , not least because it was placed under joint occupation by the Big Three and France who were joined together in an Allied Control Council . |
| 2 | For the troops who were sent here in the summer of 1969 were ill-prepared for urban conflict . |
| 3 | The Opojaz group , as its full title implies ( The Society for the Study of Poetic Language ) consisted of students of literature who were united both by a dissatisfaction with existing forms of literary study and by a positive interest in the poetry of the Russian Futurists . |
| 4 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 5 | The elector was a promiscuous man : one of Wendling 's daughters was his ex-mistress , and Mozart wrote that he had been asked to play the piano to the natural children of the elector who were kept nearby in a separate establishment . |
| 6 | With the exception of the ten generals , who were elected annually by the assembly , most other public offices were filled for limited periods ( usually a year ) by citizens chosen by lot . |
| 7 | Recently 55 more trade unionists have been arrested , yet those who were detained immediately after the 30 June coup have been neither interrogated , charged nor given an explanation of the reason why they are being held . |
| 8 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 9 | It is also true that many older people , who were trained rigorously in the disciplines of study fashionable before 1960 , think that they know a great deal about language , but in fact imbibed many false notions from their schooling . |
| 10 | And although the names of all the contenders could be heard , high-profile politicking appeared to have paid off particularly in the cases of Kenneth Baker and Michael Heseltine , who were cited frequently as the ‘ obvious ’ front-runners . |
| 11 | It is good that both these kennels , who were established right at the start of the breed 's development , are still active today . |
| 12 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
| 13 | The only other common type of drug user was cannabis users ( 16 per cent ) , the vast majority of whom were known only to the police for possession of cannabis ( see Table 3.2 ) . |