Example sentences of "what was [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emperor had been born and would die in what was called the Galactic Paradise . |
| 2 | While it is certain that it was always possible to approach Napoleon III via a courtier , the real intermediaries between the Emperor and the outside world , in so far as it necessitated his personal intervention , were those employed in what was called the Civil Cabinet . |
| 3 | There was a military precision about the grounds and gardens — this avenue , once lined with Dutch Elm lies to the north of the house … where a statue of the first duke overlooks his home — to the south , there was once what was called the military parterre garden — a formal gardens made up of box hedges and gravel walks — now long gone . |
| 4 | Bed of what was called the hung bed . |
| 5 | And er after that , my father went with the rounds with the collieries , where you had to belong to union to go to them , and Colliery did n't accept what was called the old union . |
| 6 | The lone watchman might , just possibly , be wandering around with an oil-can in hand but more probably was immersed in one of the lurid magazines with which what was called the engine-room library was so liberally stocked . |
| 7 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 8 | But flustered John 's ordeal only ended when police went to investigate what was causing the two-mile tailback near Gateshead . |
| 9 | The information gathered , together with Technology 's own research , enabled a clear picture to emerge of what was causing the poor performance and from that , action was taken to improve matters . |
| 10 | What was to become the future firm of Guest , Keen & Nettlefold ( GKN ) began when John Nettlefold opened an ironmonger 's shop at 54 High Holborn , London , in 1823 , and in 1826 a water-mill at Sunbury-on-Thames to make iron wood-screws ; this was followed in 1834 by a steam-powered factory in Baskerville Place off Broad Street in Birmingham , the centre of the screw trade . |
| 11 | This inversion is also an instance of what was to become the classic move in ideological demystification : the metaphysical is displaced by , and then collapsed into , the social . |
| 12 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 13 | The outline of what was to become the Special Air Service was roughed out in pencil on sheets of paper in hospital during June and July 1941 . |
| 14 | In the case of architecture it is the idea that is seminal — little or nothing of the form is taken over ; but in sculpture what was to become the dominant type of Greek statue through the archaic period , the naked young man , kouros , owes a direct debt to Egyptian models . |
| 15 | The influence of this view is clearly reflected in the works of the two thirteenth-century Dominican friars , Raymond of Peñafort and Thomas Aquinas , who , over a period of half a century , set out what was to become the orthodox justification of certain wars , the ‘ just ’ wars , as we term them . |
| 16 | The key figure in the initiation and development of variable analysis was Paul F. Lazarsfeld , who worked at Columbia University from the 1930s to the 1950s and who , with colleagues such as Stouffer , Thurstone , Rosenberg and Guttman , pioneered what was to become the orthodox mode of social research . |
| 17 | Lord Heathfield ( 1750–1813 ) was actively involved in founding the Veterinary College and ( later ) what was to become the Royal Army Veterinary Corps . |