Example sentences of "what [was/were] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , in turn , was part of what was seen at the time as the natural extension of scientific and technological principles from their successful application to the material and animal world to apply to human beings themselves . |
| 2 | I ask whether the legacy is only of what was owed at the time the will was made or if later increases in that sum by way of interest are also included . |
| 3 | Since complete title pages , in the modern sense , appear in most books from about 1520 , the colophon thereafter declined in use and , where found , gives only cursory information in extension or confirmation of what was stated at the outset . |
| 4 | The government was attracted by the idea of changing Sudan from an exporter of cotton , groundnuts and gum arabic into what was dubbed at the time ‘ the breadbasket of the Middle East ’ . |
| 5 | I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , from what was said at the board meeting … ’ |
| 7 | If you later disagree with the company about what was said at the time , having your own record could prove invaluable . |
| 8 | On the latter point , the hon. Gentleman is well aware of what was said at the time of the Barlow Clowes affair , following an investigation by the ombudsman into what was seen to be a unique set of circumstances . |
| 9 | It is certain that the vice-chancellor in the chair gained the impression from what was said at the meeting that they were forced to elect from a weak field of candidates . |
| 10 | The meeting of the seventeenth of September at the defendants offices is admitted by the defendant erm , but there is no admission as to what was said at the meeting . |
| 11 | Our report , which is essentially a record of what was discussed at the conference , gives them , and those unable to attend , an opportunity to reconsider the issues involved . |
| 12 | " Now , I do n't want to know what was discussed at the meeting ; if I did I could find that out easily enough . |
| 13 | Some worried employees even called news organisations in Dallas and Fort Worth to find out what was happening at the company . |
| 14 | And a settin' in was what was happening at the pub — the reason it got closed . |
| 15 | in what was happening at the door . |
| 16 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 17 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
| 18 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 19 | But that 's exactly what was happening at the launch last month of Accountancy Television ( ATV ) , a new service that will provide accountants with news , views and training once a week over the next year . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is the purpose of this article to suggest that what was alleged at the outset to be the general principle , that of self-determination , is in fact the exception . |
| 21 | So it seemed to us that the the general sense and purpose of the policy was was not in a sense disputed but that er in order to avoid a leng what was considered at the time to be perhaps unnecessary detail and going into erm too much detail that er we felt that the agricultural land policies could be left to perform the sort of main objective that we were seeking through , I think it was E three at the time , was was the proposed policy . |
| 22 | On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards . |
| 23 | Consequently , very little has survived and , apart from a late fourteenth-century rectangular oak coffin in the St Peter Hungate Church Museum at Norwich , and a c.1500 ossuary chest in Winchester Cathedral ( Col. 7 ) , excavated in 1958 from the site of the Carmelite Friary at Cowgate , Norwich , we have to turn our attention to illuminated manuscripts of the period to see what was provided at the close of the Middle Ages . |
| 24 | It took Stephanie some time to realise that she always refused what was offered at the time when it was offered , whether out of a curious notion of good manners or out of cussedness Stephanie was never wholly sure . |