Example sentences of "what was [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 2 | Sebastian refused to be quashed , then found that as he did n't have what was called a proper income he had problems in obtaining a mortgage . |
| 3 | Mr Ashdown , too , must face a bleak future , having scored only 18 per cent of the vote against 22.5 per cent for the Alliance after what was called a disastrous campaign in 1987 . |
| 4 | With the passing of the 1910 Choice of Employment Act , the education committee decided to exercise its powers and petition for the closing of the JAC ( which had not yet begun its work ) so that it could open what was termed a Juvenile Employment Bureau and Care Committee System . |
| 5 | She had what was termed a comfortable figure , but her face was thin , her nose sharp and her voice seemed to take its pattern from her features , just as Mick had described her on the way here ; although his Aunt Alice was sharp of nose and of tongue , she was broad in the shoulders and warm in heart , he had said . |
| 6 | Oscar night did not seem particularly relevant to those uncertain days of vague social unease , political upheaval and , of course , the Vietnam War rumbling away inconclusively on the other side of the globe , yet brought home with a vengeance to the American people on nightly TV news broadcasts ; and accordingly the attendant razzmatazz of the movie industry 's Night of Nights was reduced to what was considered a decent minimum . |
| 7 | Just over 60 children enjoyed what was considered a successful evening . |
| 8 | Both fall well short of what was considered a reasonable requirement in 1971 . |
| 9 | The only one of them who appeared in public from time to time was the Conte 's daughter , who was already past what was considered a marriageable age . |