Example sentences of "what was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 ) What was the lightest gauge available to the early rockers , such as Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran ? |
| 2 | What was the net percentage change in the goblin population over the four years ? |
| 3 | What was the bloody dinner bloody left . |
| 4 | What was the political point being made in presenting the father , Moran , as a disillusioned republican ? |
| 5 | What was the general demand level ? 3 . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the latest available figure for registered unemployed and recorded vacancies at the Holloway employment office and jobcentre ; and what was the equivalent figure for January 1987 . |
| 7 | So what was the mean average of the conductivity from October ? |
| 8 | What was the Cooperative Guild ? |
| 9 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 10 | It is vital that we preserve our own independent nuclear deterrent as protection against nuclear blackmail ; it is equally important that we take every possible step — as we are doing — to ensure that the process of rapid political change , and the change of authority that has taken place in what was the Soviet Union , do not lead to a more dangerous situation in regard to the present control and authority over nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | That is where Britain , China , France , the United States and the components of what was the Soviet Union have a clear responsibility . |
| 12 | That will raise a number of new question marks throughout what was the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air . |
| 14 | If , it 's happening , I mean what was the Soviet Union I mean it 's |
| 15 | But what was the actual result of the FFYP ? |
| 16 | What was the actual medical condition of the evacuees ? |
| 17 | What was , what was the actual little rhyme ? |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many in-patients are waiting for longer than a year for treatment ; and what was the corresponding figure for 1979 . |
| 19 | I could see , and I knew what was the appropriate emotional response to , say , a beautiful day , but I could n't feel it . |
| 20 | What was the specific impetus for the organization ? |
| 21 | What was the like ? |
| 22 | On page 215 he does , however , to put some distance between himself and the racist overtones of this tradition : ‘ But what was the mysterious magic by which the Germans breathed new life into a dying Europe ? |
| 23 | What was the highest rail speed ever reached by a steam hauled train , in which year and which country ? |
| 24 | What was the highest rail speed ever reached by a train with any form of traction , in which year and which country ? |
| 25 | or what was the highest score on the first one ? |
| 26 | It will no doubt investigate what was the substantial cause of the employee 's failure to comply with the statutory time limit ; whether he had been physically prevented from complying with the limitation period , for instance by illness or a postal strike , or something similar . |
| 27 | But nowhere does the Trust help me much with the only truly interesting questions about Cragside : — what was the first Lord Armstrong 's annual income ? — from what was it derived ? — what was the annual average industrial wage at the time ? — how much did he pay his gardeners and his tweeny maids ? — what kind of employer was he to his workforce ? |
| 28 | What was the economic record on the other side of the Atlantic ? |
| 29 | Bauer asked himself : what was the economic level of Romania in 1950 and what was the average annual income of Romanians then ? |
| 30 | The private Bodmer collection in Geneva is now the home of what was the only surviving Russian example of the 1455 Gutenburg Bible , bought for the Imperial library in the middle of the last century . |