Example sentences of "what was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others pushed on past him in the doorway , but they too stopped when they saw what was revealed on the other side of the windows . |
| 2 | It is very important to realise exactly what was intended in the analysis about to be described . |
| 3 | Even more surprising was the Committee 's rejection of the ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ test , since the selling of the idea that sadism can be highly pleasurable , as described above , or the reinforcing of that idea in those already attracted to it , must surely epitomise what was intended by the phrase ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ , at least as that test is interpreted by the BBFC . |
| 4 | What was intended by the supplier had not in fact materialised , because the case had been tried on correspondence rather than a correctly drawn up agreement . |
| 5 | Nearly half the 1,000 respondents to the MAFF questionnaire took " a great deal " or " quite a lot " of notice of what was written on the labels . |
| 6 | They 'd want to be sure the items had been reported stolen and the person who owns this suitcase for example , would need to know what was written on the other side . |
| 7 | They were only burning because you put in what was written on the packet . |
| 8 | Do you see , do you see what was written on the olive oil bottle and it says it 's got polyunsaturates . |
| 9 | Very few of the stations on what was built of the Cape to Cairo railway were anything more than small wayside halts . |
| 10 | According to Pearl , the final decision was based on what was discovered from the reference site visits . |
| 11 | Most impressive , though , was what was hanging from the ceiling directly above the altar stone . |
| 12 | After the revolution , in 1923 , Moscow River Yacht Club challenged the Workers Fitness Club for what was recorded as the first rugby encounter in the history of Soviet sport . |
| 13 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 14 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 15 | What was recorded in the O.T . |
| 16 | It seemed to Jehan as he watched Alexei 's face that the offworlder was reflecting inwardly upon the sum of his own knowledge , testing it against his belief in what was recorded in the books controlled by the Sechem . |
| 17 | Both were very interesting and fun , but nothing compared to what was planned for the rest of the holiday . |
| 18 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 21 | The movement thus required economic programmes to parallel political ambitions , which would end what was seen as the domination of capitalism . |
| 22 | Even so , the machine factor remained an important consideration , in particular what was seen as the growing practice of instructing boys in a single process . |
| 23 | However , although new members flocked to the movement others resigned in protest against what was seen as the placing of fascist loyalties above patriotic considerations . |
| 24 | His ageing government showed insufficient energy in pursuing the effort of World War II and its prestige and confidence were undermined by the German air raids in April–May 1941 , indecision over conscription , the corruption of Belfast Corporation , what was seen as the weak and complacent handling of industrial relations , and confused planning for the post-war world . |
| 25 | The Community Charge was introduced to replace what was seen as the ‘ unfairness ’ of the old local authority rates system . |
| 26 | The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , on Sept. 25 , in what was seen as the start of a Western military build-up to force Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions , the US Defence Department ordered the despatch to Saudi Arabia of 1,380 troops equipped with 96 US Patriot missiles . |
| 28 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 29 | The Japanese built railways to get their troops to the front , requisitioned supplies , and brooked no opposition to what was dictated by the exigencies of the war . |
| 30 | 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 . |