Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what was " in BNC.
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| 31 | Chapter 13 shows the limited potential for challenge to experts ' decisions : this chapter summarises the current law on arbitration appeals , which has greatly restricted what was until 1979 very wide access indeed . |
| 32 | She spoke Spanish a little , enough to understand what was going on , although at her interview she had been told that all her patients would be British . |
| 33 | The profit incentive was instilled in what used to be purely a subsistence mentality of only taking what was needed . |
| 34 | Well , they 'd called it embezzlement but it was only taking what was his by right . |
| 35 | It took a couple of deep breaths before she recovered enough to grasp what was happening . |
| 36 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 37 | The question was : could the situation be resolved by improving the integration of the thought and design processes , so that what was built better achieved what was intended ? |
| 38 | And she was not strong enough to stop what was going to happen . |
| 39 | And Neil only wrote what was true . ’ |
| 40 | She could hear voices , but not loud enough to distinguish what was said . |
| 41 | I suddenly wondered what was in Ramon 's friend 's parcel . |
| 42 | Spearheaded by Horovitz 's New Departures were a cluster of small magazines , harking back to surrealism and Dada , but crucially covering what was new in the return of modern times . |
| 43 | It is not difficult to adopt an academic approach and say glibly , ‘ You merely establish what was the pilot 's intention , then identify where the flight deviated from that intention ’ . |
| 44 | In the absence of plans we can only ponder what was done ; however , it did include a new lounge and a replacement for the condemned cesspit which today still serves the Club in the absence of main drainage in Harpsden . |
| 45 | ‘ When I put my hand down to feel what was wrong I realised she was being attacked — but I did n't know by what . |
| 46 | The Cold War had effectively decided what was to be done with Germany . |
| 47 | Sighing , she raised her head and stared once more into the mirror , into those dark eyes that rarely revealed what was in her soul . |
| 48 | I heard a strange sound coming from the hut , but I could not think what was making the noise . |
| 49 | Through the swing doors , and he had not registered what was happening to him until he was out into the late afternoon cold and the open doorway at the back of the car was yawning for him . |
| 50 | ‘ Last night I finally realised what was missing from my design so I went to get it but I got into some problem . ’ |
| 51 | This supposed boundary of the Pacific plate almost exactly parallels what was once called the Andesite Line : a zone surrounding the Pacific , on the outer edge of which are found rocks of an andesitic — acid — variety , and within which nearly all the rocks are of a more basic kind , using the word in its chemical sense . |
| 52 | If you 'd just explain what was going on . |
| 53 | So you actually found yourself not trusting what was going on . |
| 54 | The publicity generated by this exploit produced letters denouncing other suspect spies which Jane handed to the War Office , thus assisting what was to become MI5 . |
| 55 | Hunter and I came ashore to see what was happening , and found the stockade . |
| 56 | The Viscount nodded , although he had scarcely heard what was said , registering it somewhere at the back of his mind . |
| 57 | So there w there was certainly some element of people like , you know , organizing themselves to come down to , either intent on creating trouble or erm you know , ju just to see what was happening in . |
| 58 | So I thought I 'd call in before Arthur got down there , just to see what was what . |
| 59 | I just popped in just to see what was going on . |
| 60 | I left it a while but they did n't break up , so I went over to see what was going on . |