Example sentences of "what [vb past] [prep] be an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was what seemed to be an endless round of meetings to discuss our coverage , with Ford personnel up to and including European vice-presidents . |
| 2 | Omar said the rocks continued to thud against her body for what seemed to be an interminable time . |
| 3 | At FL090 we were IMC in what seemed to be an aspirant CB . |
| 4 | In the same inning , Carney Lansford grounded to shortstop , in what appeared to be an inning-ending double-play with the bases loaded . |
| 5 | It touched the ground at what appeared to be an impossible speed and skidded terrifyingly along the runway amid clouds of dust accompanied by a scraping , nerve-shattering , high-pitched screech . |
| 6 | His warning was disclosed yesterday in what appeared to be an amazing blunder by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 7 | The day before she was due to leave the clinic she received what appeared to be an ordinary letter . |
| 8 | No less important , the choice of 2nd May had left no time to consult them beforehand and they resented what appeared to be an arbitrary order . |
| 9 | So , under what appeared to be an informal deal between Bonn , Berlin , Prague and Warsaw , the special trains passed through East German territory on the way out — but with senior West German officials on board as a guarantee . |
| 10 | Army bomb experts were called to ICI Wilton on Teesside when workers unearthed what appeared to be an unexploded wartime shell . |
| 11 | As the curtain opened there hobbled from the wings what appeared to be an old Chinese mandarin with flowing blue robes , black silk jacket and red-buttoned Mandarin cap over hair that fell down his back in a long pigtail . |
| 12 | Cecil Parkinson took over as Chairman of the Conservative Party in what proved to be an inspired appointment . |
| 13 | Scuffles broke out between deputies , delaying what proved to be an angry budget debate . |
| 14 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |