Example sentences of "what [was/were] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour was attempting to control what were known as the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 2 | The Collective State Presidency decided on May 9 to give the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) wider powers in Croatia but stopped short of imposing a state of emergency , following what were described as the bloodiest clashes between Croats and Serbs since the Second World War in the self-proclaimed " Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina " , comprising municipalities in Croatia with a majority Serb population . |
| 3 | Some 2,000 people took part on March 8 in what were described as the biggest demonstrations in Tonga in living memory , in protest at a decision to grant citizenship to more than 400 foreigners . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the early years of the Thatcher government , it was fashionable to decry what was characterised as the overweening power of the trades unions . |
| 9 | … there was increasing public concern at what was regarded as the growing shamelessness of prostitutes , in the streets of London and some other big cities . |
| 10 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 11 | " At every Mercantile Marine Office there were what was known as the outdoor staff , or Board of Trade messengers . |
| 12 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 13 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 14 | A pair of spotted woodpeckers nested in what was known as the Little Wood below the lake and when the nuts were ripe on the copper cob trees a nuthatch came up quite close to the house . |
| 15 | Four years ago , you may remember , Lipton signed what was heralded as the longest sponsorship deal in world sport , for the next 31 years , but there were ‘ get out ’ clauses . |
| 16 | The movies had created a false world and what was taken as the ultimate proof of that was the way in which they had failed to deal directly with real Americans and their dilemmas . |
| 17 | Some of them chanted ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ in what was described as the largest protest in 35 years . |
| 18 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
| 19 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
| 20 | Some 200,000 members were expected to lose most of their savings in what was described as the worst collapse of a deposit-taking institution in Australia since 1990 . |
| 21 | The appeal court , overturning this conviction , found him guilty only on what was described as the lesser charge of genocide . |
| 22 | The executive , the most senior PSOE body , was enlarged from 23 to 31 members , but did not include the " neo-liberal " Economy and Finance Minister Carlos Solchaga , who had led opposition within the party to what was described as the ideological rule of the Deputy Prime Minister , Alfonso Guerra . |
| 23 | In what was described as the biggest fraud in the country 's history , a judge ordered the arrest of 21 prominent businesspeople in early July for allegedly obtaining loans of between US$20,000,000 and $50,000,000 for illicit purposes from the Commercial Agricultural Bank , one of eight state-owned commercial banks . |
| 24 | In an unexpected encounter , South African President F. W. de Klerk held 90 minutes of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in what was described as the highest-level meeting ever held between their two governments . |
| 25 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |