Example sentences of "[be] what was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " At every Mercantile Marine Office there were what was known as the outdoor staff , or Board of Trade messengers . |
| 2 | Lowestoft was by far the biggest , erm and Lowestoft had a peculiar sort of administrative set up because they were what was described as erm a Divisional Executive and erm they had powers over their own committees apart from higher education which in modern parlance is further education . |
| 3 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 4 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 5 | Yeah , that 's what was talking about . |
| 6 | That is what was said by the Labour party which in 1979 left the police forces of this country 8,000 under strength . |
| 7 | And that is what was decided upon . |
| 8 | If this is what was meant by adaptability , why was it such a popular idea among those who discussed industrial training within the framework of compulsory part-time day continuation schools ? |
| 9 | If this is what was happening in Marslen-Wilson 's experiment , the really important variable should be where the target occurred relative to the recognition point , rather than where the target occurred within the word . |
| 10 | Because they 're so much smaller , and perhaps this is what was happening in your case sounds very unfair , to me , but er , but , but , but there we are . |
| 11 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
| 12 | No , I , I , I think what you 've said is , is what was agreed at the P A G , and erm , I do n't think there 's any point in adding to it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is what was left of his council house after it was struck by a bolt of lightning for the SECOND time in 2 weeks . |
| 15 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 16 | Most impressive , though , was what was hanging from the ceiling directly above the altar stone . |
| 17 | But erm they say that he had used to go and collect it and that was what was fed to the pigs . |
| 18 | She was bursting to relieve herself , but even though that was what was wanted of her , she could n't . |
| 19 | I think he gave a figure of one pound , fifty nine was what was referred to by the phrase management charges in that sentence |
| 20 | This was what was said by professionals . |
| 21 | Now she would have to think , that was what was happening to her mind . |
| 22 | The English people were the first to experience an industrial revolution , and nobody was conscious that this was what was happening to them . |
| 23 | So I immediately assumed that this was what was happening to my own kids . |
| 24 | And a settin' in was what was happening at the pub — the reason it got closed . |
| 25 | … and this was what was happening outside Liverpool |
| 26 | Right , the second factor which Tony outlined was what was happening in the population and again we 've already talked about this . |
| 27 | But then it came natural we did n't take any notice of it , we thought it was what was expected of us you know . |
| 28 | While at the height of the Bank Holiday disturbances there was what was described as a ‘ Midnight Riot ’ in the vicinity of Euston Road when a policeman attempted to deal with a disorderly woman who ‘ began to shriek , and … screamed that she was being choked ’ . |
| 29 | Aft of this was what was left of a small radio-room with a man who appeared to be peacefully sleeping leaning forward on folded arms , the fingers of one hand still on a transmitting key . |
| 30 | It is , for instance , quite possible that the grain found on this particular estate by the royal surveyors was what was left after the deduction of food-distributions to slaves and other dependents . |