Example sentences of "what was [verb] at the " 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 | Officials say it is because the two sides have different versions of what was decided at the previous negotiations that the ceasefire has broken down . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you later disagree with the company about what was said at the time , having your own record could prove invaluable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ Well , from what was said at the board meeting … ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " Now , I do n't want to know what was discussed at the meeting ; if I did I could find that out easily enough . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
| 16 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And a settin' in was what was happening at the pub — the reason it got closed . |
| 19 | Some worried employees even called news organisations in Dallas and Fort Worth to find out what was happening at the company . |
| 20 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 21 | in what was happening at the door . |
| 22 | With its listings of all-night movies , ‘ happenings ’ and a news section of political agitation that once moved Mick Jagger to remark that wading through it to find out what was showing at the NFT was ‘ like crossing a picket line ’ , Time Out became as much a fixture of London bedsit life as the latest Mike Oldfield or Sex Pistols record . |
| 23 | It might have continued like this indefinitely if I had n't picked up a copy of the Kensington News , a paper Daphne took so she could find out what was showing at the local picture house . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | No , I , I , I think what you 've said is , is what was agreed at the P A G , and erm , I do n't think there 's any point in adding to it . |
| 26 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Though never a gourmet , I appreciated also the food at Ika 's home , as I found what was provided at the Cité Universitaire almost inedible , even accustomed as we in Britain were to such unappetising fare as powdered egg and cakes baked with liquid paraffin . |
| 30 | 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 . |