Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] what [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The architect should be told exactly what is required and made to follow instructions . |
| 3 | Cases are documented where what are seen in Mathewson and Winter as potential substitutes ( territory distribution and RPM ) were used together . |
| 4 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 5 | Because the two subjects were approached separately what was going to be one piece became almost like two stories . |
| 6 | A Liberal Democrat , Ian Blackstock , said : ‘ We are not being told exactly what is going on . |
| 7 | The first step is to translate aims into objectives , that is to state exactly what is expected of the students . |
| 8 | China is to set up what is described as the world 's biggest nature reserve , covering 200,000 square kilometres in the Qangtang grasslands of northern Tibet . |
| 9 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 10 | Olwyn was told exactly what was going on : the behaviour her parents were trying to stop and what they were trying to get her to do instead . |
| 11 | They agreed that nothing could be done until it was learned exactly what was taking place . |