Example sentences of "what were the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what is his Department 's estimate of North sea oil reserves and how long it is anticipated they will last ; and what were the corresponding estimates five years ago . |
| 2 | So , what were the long-term preconditions for headhunting in Britain ? |
| 3 | In your time as a district nurse , what were the greatest changes you noticed ? |
| 4 | What were the personal motives of the chief participants in an event ? |
| 5 | ‘ What were the two of you up to ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What were the two of you talking about ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What were the other things you did to get put in The Chokey ? ’ |
| 8 | There was a lot , lot had it er I do n't know how they used to go on really er I know some somebody in a , a movement called Rachobites er what were the other one ? |
| 9 | What were the other tugs ? |
| 10 | What what were the other servants in the house like ? |
| 11 | What were the other servants in the house like ? |
| 12 | What were the key sources of management information ? |
| 13 | If trees were once common , what were the major species — birch , hazel , rowan , oak , elm , alder , pine ? |
| 14 | Christ , what were the major poisons ? |
| 15 | In order to sustain the argument that I am putting forward here , it is important to establish what were the major arguments levelled by anthropologists and others against the ‘ great divide ’ theory . |
| 16 | The aim is to discover , for example by estimating ‘ reaction functions ’ what were the economic indicators to which policymakers in fact responded . |
| 17 | But what were the revolutionary contents of the Speciale ? |
| 18 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 19 | What were the religious leaders worried about ? |
| 20 | Reasonably enough , princes required to be taught how to make war , and since many of the authors of these works were clerics , they turned to what were the standard handbooks on war to find the information they needed . |
| 21 | The revolutionary left has been profoundly disoriented by the crisis in state-run economies both in Latin America and , even more graphically , in what were the Soviet Union and eastern Europe . |
| 22 | Thus , when my boy Charlie says , ‘ What were the Sixties like , Daddy ? ’ |
| 23 | What were the easy bits ? |
| 24 | in there , operating in , especially in the what were the eastern country , erm standard of living is |
| 25 | What were the central features of this democracy , which aroused such controversy at the time , and still provokes debate today ? |
| 26 | What were the medical applications of , say , arsenic ? |
| 27 | What were the significant events happening in your life at the time ? |
| 28 | What I 'd like you to do is put put a rectangle round three words , it does n't matter where they are on on the whole thought pattern , three words that are the highlights what were the three things that were the highlights or the most important thing for you yesterday . |
| 29 | What were the special environmental ingredients that built on the latent in-born talents ? |
| 30 | What were the social and economic implications of the slow down in population growth ? |