Example sentences of "what [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of its report it made several suggestions as to reform of the law to increase the availability of credit by removing what were perceived to be legal handicaps : Specifically , the Banking Commission recommended changes in the law of security . |
| 2 | At some stage , however , Iran secured supplies of what were believed to be Soviet , originating missiles , possibly from Syria , to which the USSR had delivered such weapons . |
| 3 | The timing of the election was also influenced by disarray within the opposition Liberal-National Party coalition arising from what were considered to be ill-conceived policies regarding health care and labour relations , and continuing problems within the leadership . |
| 4 | Public utilities such as electricity , gas , water and telecommunications provided the best examples of what were considered to be natural monopolies , although when technological advances are made , certain industries formerly classed as natural monopolies may cease to be so ( eg telecommunications ) . |
| 5 | Henceforth unions could be fined very heavily for conducting what were deemed to be unlawful strikes : several of them were to suffer accordingly , starting with the National Graphical Association . |
| 6 | The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery . |
| 7 | More than one lost his head as a consequence of making what were alleged to be seditious or treacherous statements in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk , who chaired the meeting , announced at a news conference that after several hours of what were reported to be stormy discussions , 20 documents had been signed , notably including an agreement defining the status of the strategic forces and stipulating that their commander was subordinate to the Council of Heads of State and to the C.-in-C. of the joint armed forces of the CIS . |
| 9 | In none of the grounds of appeal was it suggested that there was an insufficiency of evidence ; what was complained of was alleged misdirections . |
| 10 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 11 | Early legislation on the subject of mental handicap failed to distinguish between mental handicap , mental illness , and what was considered to be moral incompetence . |
| 12 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 13 | Sometimes it appears to be little more than this , as in the case of the temporary vogue for ‘ Occitania ’ in France in the 1970s , the shift of a number of able intellectuals of the Left to Scottish nationalism in the same decade and the preoccupation with what was claimed to be Valencian national identity in the early 1980s among left intellectuals of the Spanish Levante . |
| 14 | After what was deemed to be considerable negotiating success with the wretched pay beds , I was left in relative tranquillity from government activity for a short time only . |