Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] was [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 2 | The suggestion made to the Argyll interest was that an order from the Board of Customs should be sent to Wigtown demanding the attendance of these officers in Edinburgh on the day of election , whereby it was hoped that a party of Lord Galloway 's enemies might carry the day . |
| 3 | Regina v. Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn , Ex parte Persaud On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Rose J. on 17 September 1991 , the applicant in the second case , Norman Persaud , a barrister , sought inter alia , an order of certiorari to quash an order made by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 31 July 1991 whereby it was held that the applicants ' petition of appeal , dated 28 September 1990 , from the findings and the sentence of the disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court be dismissed . |
| 4 | The initial agreement was a statement of principle rather than a binding promise , whereby it was agreed that countries should make every effort to ‘ use the best available technology that is economically feasible ’ to limit air pollution . |
| 5 | In addition the respondents pleaded that the petitioner was not entitled to pursue these allegations because of the compromise made on 6 May 1988 whereby it was agreed that ‘ all litigation between Omnicorp , [ the petitioner , the first respondent and the second respondent ] ( including the present proceedings ) would be discontinued . ’ |
| 6 | In the alternative , however , they contended that the payments by Woolwich had been made pursuant to an implied agreement between Woolwich and the revenue whereby it was agreed that the revenue would hold the sums pending the outcome of proceedings to determine the validity of the relevant regulations , and that any entitlement of Woolwich to repayment arose on the date of the first judgment of Nolan J. with the effect that interest ran only from that date . |
| 7 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
| 8 | ‘ You all know about this woman , how she was killed and where . |
| 9 | She broke down in tears and confessed to making up the story of how she was abducted and held by two men for 36 hours . |
| 10 | Talking to someone about how she was feeling and not bottling up her worries . |
| 11 | This book is , therefore , concerned with what social policy is , how it was created and how it was implemented , as well as with its weaknesses and arguments about what it should be . |
| 12 | It helped with how it was presented and may be cutting down on what was presented . |
| 13 | The stuff of it , how it came to be , how it was shaped and turned and moved , still evades me . |
| 14 | When he stands alone in such a place confronted by several police officers , usually some of high rank , the dice are loaded against him , especially as he knows there is no one to corroborate him as to what exactly occurred during the interrogation , how it was conducted and how long it lasted ’ . |
| 15 | The 210-ft telescope at Parkes was completed in 1961 , some four years after the 250-ft Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank , and in the second part of the book we are told how it was funded and built . |
| 16 | I do n't know how it was done but they ha they apparently they did plenty of it , . |
| 17 | In particular , it is worth examining earlier occasions when change was handled effectively and then explore how it was done and what skills and methods were used . |
| 18 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 19 | Bellowing ‘ Vatch me ! ’ he took off to show how it was done and then stood chatting at the bottom while we failed to do it . |
| 20 | For the police squad it was a new experience , but they had seen how it was done and all landed safely . |
| 21 | The very characteristic marks left on the mire show how it was made and this can indicate the likely age of a piece . |
| 22 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 23 | It can be used to show almost anything , from what an object looked like to how it was made , how it was used and how it was found . |
| 24 | Naturally neither the NSA nor GCHQ will discuss the subject since such telephone tapping is illegal but in 1976 the NSA 's Harvest computer system intercepted 75 million individual telephone conversations alone around the world , of which 1.8 million were considered sufficiently interesting to require further human analysis , although what happened to the information the NSA had collected and how it was shared and used remains a mystery . |
| 25 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |
| 26 | We were so poor we had a chicken in the oven for Christmas , and I opened the door to see how it was doing and the fellow from next door was dipping his bread in the gravy . |
| 27 | In order to understand how the Children 's Hearing system works , it is necessary to go back to the beginning and explain how it was established and how it was intended to operate . |
| 28 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 29 | For Jeremiah , the result of obeying God was that the prophet came into conflict with many people and our passage this evening told how he was beaten and chained overnight . |
| 30 | His patter is now issued on a cassette in which he tells the story of how he was baptised as Christian . |