Example sentences of "what was be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was is then ? |
| 2 | Erm what was were his wages very low ? |
| 3 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 4 | But there is no such careful blending of ingredients in Tetley 's Dances of Albion where the singer 's words of the traditional ‘ Lye Wake Dirge ’ bore no relation to what was being danced on stage . |
| 5 | Although this was true for some respondents , most policemen and women in Easton periodically sought reassurance from the researcher about the purpose of the research , what was being written down about them , who would have access to the material , what the researchers ' politics , religion , allegiances , and so on were . |
| 6 | It was probably in 1937 that he and Tolkien had a conversation about their distaste for much of what was being published at that time . |
| 7 | Diana took the criticism to heart , avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent . |
| 8 | Even in those large congregations all the bidding prayers are spontaneous , beautifully prayed and with everyone obviously listening to what was being said . |
| 9 | What was being fought out over The Lodger was a debate about how far it was possible to combine a concern for art with the values of popular cinema . |
| 10 | As Kylie 's business empire was already planning for the 1990s — estimates of its overall earnings are now a staggering £4.5 million a month — virtually every music executive in the world was casting an envious eye at what was being acknowledged as one of the best business operations pop had ever seen . |
| 11 | In the main they all appreciated what was being done and it was obvious that the Board was held in high regard by this section of the industry . |
| 12 | The Great Spirit … seemed to be looking some other way , and did not see what was being done to my people . |
| 13 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 14 | Even their reports , which before the war would have been held together by close logic and the normal sense of what was being said , are now things of numbered paragraphs ( the British Library report cited earlier has sections with triple numbers , such as 9.6.1. and even the conclusions of chapters have introductions ) with no style or overall understanding at all . |
| 15 | She could n't hear what was being said , but she saw that three caravans were standing inside the field by the gate and that several rough-looking men were raising their fists and shouting at Farmer Yatton , Angela 's father , who was ordering them out . |
| 16 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 17 | Sometimes other service-providers failed to understand the symptoms of dementia and therefore took inappropriate decisions on clients ' behalf ; for example , a social worker who had been asked to assess a client for residential care failed to realise that questions about the client 's own preferences would have to be phrased in such a way that the client could understand what was being proposed for her . |
| 18 | My eyes glued to the beer mat I tried to take in what was being said . |
| 19 | Many students are shy , and , if they see that the librarian is busy , do n't like to explain that they did n't really understand what was being said . |
| 20 | Firstly , it would be impossible to try out many of the gases and solvents ‘ blind ’ because they have a powerful smell — the patient would know what was being tested . |
| 21 | The Nazi-imposed rules for managing the Kindertransporte were made more restrictive in early 1939 , presumably as an attempt to disguise from decent citizens what was being perpetrated in their name . |
| 22 | The circumstance of the surrender of Trebizond was not what was being discussed . |
| 23 | ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’ |
| 24 | She guessed that what was being said was that Piphros was the control , the experiment running alongside the real one , that indicated the result that could be expected with a known norm . |
| 25 | He could not make out what was being said in the kitchen below . |
| 26 | We could n't hear what was being said but the large man was bending over Bogie 's table and poking him in the chest . |
| 27 | He must have heard what was being said because he rounded on them . |
| 28 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 29 | Meredith could not hear what was being said but she could more or less guess at it . |
| 30 | The Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , should carry the can , even though he may not have known exactly what was being done by his people . |