Example sentences of "what was [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Many police officers were angry that the cases had been brought at all , since the methods employed by the defendant constables were said to have involved no more than what was set out in the Home Office-approved Tactical Options Manual . |
2 | This time he had shifted his ground ; not a word about the criticisms of Hailsham and Macmillan which we had agreed to delete , nor about untoward consequences in the Arab world : this time it was ‘ breach of confidential relationships ’ contrary to what was laid down in the Report of the Privy Council on Ministerial Memoirs . |
3 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |
4 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
5 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
6 | It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts . |
7 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
8 | They did n't seem to be very bothered about issues other than what was going on in the village itself . |
9 | She may perhaps have felt a little out of place but she articulates a rare understanding of what was going on in the place , all underpinned by an almost total recall of the fascinating minutiae of day-to-day events . |
10 | What was going on in the castle they could only guess at . |
11 | It may help us to understand some of the subsequent developments better if first we have an impression of what was going on in the University of Utah chemistry department in 1988 , up to and around the time of the interaction with Jones . |
12 | He recalls once telling a group of students to clear their minds and observe what was going on in the room . |
13 | Yet what was going on in the exchequer and treasury was only symptomatic of changes throughout government , from chancery to wardrobe and chamber , from the great seal to the privy seal . |
14 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
15 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
16 | By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory . |
17 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
18 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
19 | Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry . |
20 | Now Mr Atkins former job is as Minister in Northern Ireland so he 's unlikely to know a lot about what was going on in the in the Commons at the end of last session which is a bit unfortunate . |
21 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
22 | He walked around watching the instructors putting the men through their paces and , as on his last visit , seemed to take a particular interest in what was going on in the boxing ring . |
23 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |
24 | And we found that many parents were inclined to believe these kinds of reports , and yet this just was n't true if one saw what was going on in the schools . |
25 | What , what I would always hope though , is that they might go for some help , because even if they decide to separate , and er get support while they 're doing so , they may be able to understand what was going on in the relationship , what they were looking for in each other . |