Example sentences of "[vb past] what were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1851 he used what were in effect vectors in deriving magnetic equations without using Poisson 's theory of magnetic fluid . |
| 2 | We knew what were in there before you even opened your hand up ! |
| 3 | We knew what were in there ! |
| 4 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 5 | It was in Lucerne that you conducted what were by all accounts electrifying performances of the Honegger Symphonie liturgique , which you later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon . |