Example sentences of "what was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Do you see , do you see what was written on the olive oil bottle and it says it 's got polyunsaturates . |
| 4 | As they fall , as in the example given , they merely replace what was lost in an earlier time period . |
| 5 | She says it 's turning what was presented as a local bypass into a major through-way — motor-way style — 6 lanes — elevated to 35 feet , lit up all night — slap through Oxford 's green-belt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On June 29 , in what was viewed as a further serious setback comparable to that of the Challenger shuttle disaster of 1986 [ see pp. 34266-68 ] , NASA grounded its entire space shuttle fleet . |
| 8 | In what was seen as a serious challenge to President Daniel arap Moi 's government , four days of rioting in which more than 20 people were killed followed a rally held on July 7 by advocates of political reform . |
| 9 | There was particular concern in China over what was seen as a developing relationship between Taiwan and the Philippines , despite the latter 's formal recognition of China . |
| 10 | Gen. Emile Lahud , C.-in-C. of the Lebanese Army , announced on March 30 the opening of the port road between West and East Beirut , in what was seen as a conciliatory gesture towards the Maronite Christians supporting President Hrawi . |
| 11 | In what was seen as a crucial breakthrough for efforts to avert massive famine in the Horn of Africa [ see p. 37845 ] the World Food Programme announced on Dec. 18 that it had secured the definite agreement of the Ethiopian government and leaders of the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) guerillas to open the Red Sea port of Massawa , closed to shipping since its capture by the EPLF in February . |
| 12 | Calling itself La Rete ( the Network ) , the movement focused on what was seen as a crucial nationwide fight against the Mafia and organized crime . |
| 13 | Bad weather dashed hopes of attempts to halt the flow during what was seen as a natural lull in the lava 's momentum . |
| 14 | In what was seen as a pragmatic change of policy , Nujoma now declared that his government was committed to a mixed economy and actively sought foreign investment . |
| 15 | They interpreted their role as being one of heightening the consciousness and awareness of the workforce , seeking to mould perceptions and mobilise workers ideologically towards a far-reaching structural transformation of what was seen as an exploitative and alienating society . |
| 16 | The bill to reform what was seen as an unjust system has made a speedy passage on to the statute book after cross-party agreement to support the move . |
| 17 | In what was seen as an important concession to China and condemned by more militant Tibetans as a sell-out , the Dalai Lama effectively acknowledged China 's overall sovereignty and suggested that Tibet become a self-governing region in association with China , a relationship that would leave Peking in control of both foreign policy and defence . |
| 18 | In what was seen as an important statement of Soviet foreign policy in the face of growing demands for German reunification , Mr Shevardnadze posed seven questions which would have to be answered before it was ‘ possible realistically to raise the issue … of re-establishing German unity ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the early years of the Thatcher government , it was fashionable to decry what was characterised as the overweening power of the trades unions . |
| 24 | No , that 's Whisky what was killed on the main road who done that , |
| 25 | And they imply divorce when what was achieved during the seventeenth century was a differentiation often conducted on theological grounds . |
| 26 | What was achieved by the great expansion of research which produced these drugs and the clinical innovation which adopted them so freely ? |
| 27 | Officials say it is because the two sides have different versions of what was decided at the previous negotiations that the ceasefire has broken down . |
| 28 | Torrijos seized power four years later , vowing to put an end to what was perceived as a long era of national humiliation . |
| 29 | In the early stages there was anxiety and anger within the Tory machine that the campaign was too flat and unfocused in its response to what was perceived as a dangerous Labour push . |
| 30 | The defensive measures taken by the Catholic church against what was perceived as a Protestant cancer altered the criteria of truth , allowing authority on scientific issues to be wrested from scholars and vested in a Roman bureaucracy . |