Example sentences of "what was [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what was revealed this week . |
| 2 | The end of the First World War was accompanied by unmistakable evidence that the population of the greater part of Ireland had no intention of remaining within the United Kingdom ; and when the attempt to force a home rule constitution upon them provoked a rebellion , Britain had to recognise defeat , but insisted upon the Irish Free State accepting what was called Canadian status by recognising the King Emperor as its representative for external purposes . |
| 3 | In a paper written in 1905 , a few weeks before the famous paper on special relativity , Einstein pointed out that what was called Brownian motion — the irregular , random motion of small particles of dust suspended in a liquid — could be explained as the effect of atoms of the liquid colliding with the dust particles . |
| 4 | it 's one way , what was called this way |
| 5 | ‘ It has to do with what was said last time I was here . ’ |
| 6 | Now I love the Labour Party and a lot of what was said this morning was painful . |
| 7 | What was encouraging this year was that the overall calibre of entries far-outstripped last year 's submissions . |
| 8 | In what was to become typical behaviour for mining companies in Ireland , the company did not ask local landowners for permission to enter their lands to prospect . |
| 9 | Fitted with a 100hp Sunbeam engine and averaging a speed of 90 mph , he out paced all the other competitors and won the race in what was to become true Alcock style ! |
| 10 | I do this because it was in the period of the church fathers that what was to become orthodox Christology was worked out . |
| 11 | Dennis frowned , as if he were n't sure quite what was happening that morning . |
| 12 | I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly . |
| 13 | It was warm and sunny , and for a brief time , as she cycled along to the nearest shops , she almost forgot what was to come that day . |
| 14 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |