Example sentences of "what was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What was done by the Whips was done in the name of the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Due to the speed of movement and poor visibility it was difficult to see exactly what was carved on the amulets it looked like worms , curling around each other . |
| 6 | But erm they say that he had used to go and collect it and that was what was fed to the pigs . |
| 7 | Rose gathered up what was left of the sandwiches of tinned salmon and sardines . |
| 8 | She told her wrist computer to give the speeder the settings for the shuttle hangar , and as the automatic pilot cut in she turned , intending to climb up to what was left of the weapons deck . |
| 9 | In the eighteenth century what was known of the practices of Little Gidding appealed to William Law . |
| 10 | The exact relation of what we see on the vases to what was shown on the walls is something we shall have to consider , but that in some way these vase pictures do reflect the revolution in wall-painting can not be doubted . |
| 11 | I 've actually got a great load still of gardenia and white mixed which is what was put on the walls in the sitting room . |
| 12 | But I think in seconding this motion I think it 's a way forward and I think it 's better late than never I think what it talks about that we would not be here today Mr Chairman if this would have been agreed by what was put by the officers two and half years ago . |
| 13 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 14 | Thus Hamilton cruised up and down the coast , out of touch with what was happening on the beaches . |
| 15 | But oh we were told about the war and what was happening between the Germans and whatnot . |
| 16 | The tabloid newspapers decided it was their duty to reveal that Gatting had invited a barmaid to his hotel room during the Test match , and that he and other players had taken part in ‘ sex romps ’ with girls from the hotel ; though how the newshounds , scrabbling around in the bushes outside , could see what was happening in the rooms was not really clear . |
| 17 | She wanted someone outside Orkney to take a long , hard look at what was happening within the islands . |
| 18 | In what was described by The Times of April 20 as " the worst crisis in relations between the two NATO allies " , 15 Turkish diplomats were withdrawn from the Turkish embassy in Bonn , West Germany , and eight West German diplomats were expelled from Ankara . |
| 19 | The child 's task was to point to the picture which correctly depicted what was described in the sentences . |