Example sentences of "what was [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice she removed her eyes from the letter , matching what was written there with the woman in front of her . |
| 2 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 3 | In an attempt to focus attention on what was seen then as the ‘ plight of women ’ , the United Nations had decided that 1975 would be International Woman 's Year . |
| 4 | The thought must indeed come to mind with probability theory and the Probability Calculus , and their being imported into causation , despite what was said above about the logical consistency of probability theory and necessitation . |
| 5 | The first is that despite what was said earlier about the unique nature of art-objects , the stance of being suggests why the arts are so frequently associated with the human , and are therefore regarded as central to the ‘ humanities ’ . |
| 6 | If we recall what was said earlier regarding the trend in primate evolution which promoted the visual sense over that of smell and prehensile agility over terrestrial quadrupedalism , we can readily see that the definitive adoption of a fully upright posture in man is only the culmination of this much more general evolutionary tendency . |
| 7 | Possibly it has its origins in the ‘ white noise ’ techniques which the Brits , ever the innovators , pioneered in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ( it has always seemed unjust that what was deplored then as a human rights abuse was later marketed under the brand name of acid house ) . |
| 8 | So erm they used to put some meat by for her to er on the cheap sort of thing what was left over on a Saturday then my mother 'd get lots of meat and that you know cheap . |
| 9 | Although we were suitably impressed by the mere twelve-footer caught in Likangloe , the hunters promised that before we left they would take us into what was known locally as the " Death Cave " to find the really big pythons . |
| 10 | Erm we did n't have what was known nowadays as a formal disciplinary procedure . |
| 11 | But while I tramcar leaving any suburban area there was always what was known then as a worker 's return . |
| 12 | Everybody else remembers the uproar in what was known grandly as the palm Court , the former bar and dance hall where during the day several lessons were held simultaneously , including at least one assault on the piano . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Frankie 's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he clapped eyes on the room and its contents , especially what was laid out on the table . |
| 16 | I lost track of what was going on outside the alley until the officer tapped her shoulder with his revolver and waved it in my face . |
| 17 | More importantly , it reflects his laconic style , and what was going on under the surface : |
| 18 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 19 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 20 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 21 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 22 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 23 | Should he ask him what was going on at the top of the Ministry and why they were resurrecting the Zoser case ? |
| 24 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 25 | I admit I was wrong about the Cairngorms , and I did n't even have the chance to see what was going on behind the plateau to the south . |
| 26 | As one day followed another the garrison could not help wondering what was going on behind the Collector 's closed door . |
| 27 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
| 28 | Amsterdam looked over the rim of his coffee cup , wondering what was going on inside the head of his august relation . |
| 29 | Police sources say the officers were able to hear what was going on inside the car when Sergeant Norton 's radio was accidentally switched on . |
| 30 | 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 . |