Example sentences of "what [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's like this … their church owns the property , an ’ it turned out there 's a heap o' genuine folk in the city end of the organisation , who 'd no idea what wuz goin' on out here . |
| 2 | I was always terribly shy and I was sent to what were known as elocution lessons — to get me out of myself . |
| 3 | We are not shown the acres of car park , the oversized modern restaurant extension and the gutted interior , knocked together from what were once intimate old rooms . |
| 4 | You get on your bike and find that old lady what were in here just now and you do n't let her out of your sight . |
| 5 | ‘ Well what were you doing with it ? ’ she asked , aghast . |
| 6 | ‘ So what were you doing up here in London ? ’ |
| 7 | Cameron went and spoke to James angrily , in a quiet voice , What were they doing , holding a ceilidh ? |
| 8 | What were they ? |
| 9 | Dedham from Langham , long blues , long brown shore , brush strokes in the clouds ; Rockets and Blue Lights ( Close at Hand ) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water , painted light rippled the sand and waves into a vortex and what were those people doing on the shore ? |
| 10 | In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title . |
| 11 | What were they using if not the stuff Johnson intended for babies ' bums ? |
| 12 | Thus , when my boy Charlie says , ‘ What were the Sixties like , Daddy ? ’ |
| 13 | When , in 1939 , The Architects ' Journal conducted a survey to find what were considered the best modern buildings in Britain , Battersea was placed second — and was the favourite of such unlikely celebrities as Sir Kenneth Clark , Rebecca West and Charles Laughton . |
| 14 | What were his political plans ? |
| 15 | But leaving aside instances of momentary irritation , of which there were many , as all field-workers must expect , most respondents became confident enough in the field-worker 's presence to express what were undoubtedly widely held fears about the research . |
| 16 | ‘ What were you saying , Taff ? ’ |
| 17 | A bad press highlighted what were generally agreed to be a politician 's weak points ; a good press encouraged people to give politicians even higher ratings on their generally acknowledged strengths . |
| 18 | The public relied to a minimal extent on what were by modern standards vestigial radio , telephone , and film-distribution systems . |
| 19 | Henceforth unions could be fined very heavily for conducting what were deemed to be unlawful strikes : several of them were to suffer accordingly , starting with the National Graphical Association . |
| 20 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 21 | What were the relationships between the politics , policy , and theory of Keynesianism in its golden age ? |
| 22 | What were the main illnesses people suffered from ? |
| 23 | But what were the revolutionary contents of the Speciale ? |
| 24 | What were the implications of this for the process of commercialization ? |
| 25 | Adults would have been thought foolish to take part in what were now only infantile amusements . |
| 26 | ‘ What were you wanting ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What were these large sums ? ’ |
| 28 | What were we to them ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What were the two of you up to ? ’ |
| 30 | If E. K. Chambers could be suspected of being dull and pedantic , what were Fox 's qualities ? |