Example sentences of "of what was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The information gathered , together with Technology 's own research , enabled a clear picture to emerge of what was causing the poor performance and from that , action was taken to improve matters . |
| 2 | Each section would grab its particular portion of what was called the " Y " Form , the gunners would be briefed and tactics would be discussed . |
| 3 | Bed of what was called the hung bed . |
| 4 | A characteristic feature of the response to the major economic depression of the 1930s in most of the ‘ developed ’ countries of the world was the rapid growth of what was termed the ‘ welfare state ’ — which is now under severe attack as a political response to the recession of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 5 | This inversion is also an instance of what was to become the classic move in ideological demystification : the metaphysical is displaced by , and then collapsed into , the social . |
| 6 | At 1.24am on April 26th 1986 , the 14 men in the control room of reactor number four at Chernobyl witnessed the first stirrings of what was to become the worst nuclear accident in history . |
| 7 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 8 | The outline of what was to become the Special Air Service was roughed out in pencil on sheets of paper in hospital during June and July 1941 . |
| 9 | It was the beginning of what was to become the greatest and most dangerous hardship of our voyage . |
| 10 | On his father 's death in 1851 John took over his dental practice at 12 Dundas Street , although he did not entirely forgo his medical interests , since in 1859 he proposed the foundation of what was to become the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 11 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |