Example sentences of "what was [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Posters appeared in some villages advertising what was intended the next market day and calling on " one and all " to join in . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Emperor had been born and would die in what was called the Galactic Paradise . |
| 6 | Early plans for what was called the finest waterfront site in Europe included a heritage centre , now nearly complete , and a leisure complex with bowling alley , cinemas , food stores and nightclub , none of which have been attracted to the site . |
| 7 | Two years ago , NASA at the last minute reneged on a joint venture with ESA to send two satellites to the Sun in what was called the International Solar/Polar Mission . |
| 8 | None of the belligerents intended to fight what was called the second world war , they all entered into conflict , they all began er a rearmament programme with the idea of using violence as a means to secure lesser objectives . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bed of what was called the hung bed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | How it turned out was that we er , I was attending the , what was called the Secondary Modern School and we 'd moved premises from up to . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But flustered John 's ordeal only ended when police went to investigate what was causing the two-mile tailback near Gateshead . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | While the politicians were pre-occupied with the death penalty and corporal punishment in the late 1950s and early 1960s , the civil servants were paddling in the mainstream , adjusting to the implications of the increased volume of crime and trying to get a grip on what was to become a perennial problem for the next quarter century , the growth in the number of persons appearing before the courts charged with criminal offences . |
| 19 | The Asshe genius manifested itself , late but truly , in what was to become a flourishing couture business , having moved by then from Highbury to Holborn . |
| 20 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 21 | As the trio began mapping out the songs that would fill Kylie 's first album , Stock was among the first to make what was to become a familiar prediction . |
| 22 | Around the fort would grow a tiny settlement which gradually , if the fort were well situated on what was to become a primary trading route , evolved into a complex settlement including military servicemen and their families , traders , artisans and peasants . |
| 23 | The unprovoked action sparked off what was to become a national emergency , lasting up to 1960 and involving one of the most hard-fought jungle campaigns of this century . |
| 24 | And suggestions that she was part of a virginal vanguard of ‘ bimbettes ’ — too young and unsullied to be fully-fledged bimbos — brought the first flashes of what was to become a formidable temper . |
| 25 | On a visit to England in 1914 , Charles Pathé initiated what was to become a French sport , mocking the backwardness of British production . |
| 26 | Trotsky thus drew attention to what was to become a recurring theme in critiques of Soviet Marxism — the bureaucratization of the mass political party . |
| 27 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 28 | In 1938 White published The Sword in the Stone , the first instalment of what was to become an Arthurian tetralogy entitled The Once and Future King . |
| 29 | I first became a Member of Parliament in 1979 , taking my place that summer as a back-bencher in what was to become an historic Parliament . |
| 30 | Dr Macdonald was consulted on a series of cases which gave him clues to what was to become an accepted theory . |