Example sentences of "what [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What amounted to a second phase in the Industrial Revolution accelerated world integration and specialization , confirming the division of the world 's peoples into industrial workers in Europe and the eastern United States and producers of raw materials and foodstuffs elsewhere . |
| 2 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 3 | An estimated 13 people had been killed in violent incidents on the previous day , in what amounted to a serious upsurge in township unrest . |
| 4 | But Walker , who is contender for Great Britain 's Olympic team , was clearly hoping for a much better time on what amounted to a solo run . |
| 5 | Mesic , who reiterated on Sept. 12 his intention to resign after the expiry on Oct. 7 of the EC moratorium , accused the army of staging what amounted to a military coup by ignoring his orders , saying that he would ask for foreign intervention and bring charges against army commanders unless the JNA halted its attacks on Croatian towns and withdrew . |
| 6 | In what amounted to a fledgling display of player-power and a dress rehearsal for the player 's campaign to secure greater freedom of contract , the Scots players argued bitterly with the Chelsea board . |
| 7 | Governmental efforts to bring about what amounted to a cultural revolution intensified in the 1650s , when England came under the control of army leaders such as Oliver Cromwell who considered the reform of the nation 's morality one of their chief priorities . |
| 8 | After playing this there was what amounted to a short interval , which gave me time to talk to one or two people . |
| 9 | What amounted to a Socialist take-over ensued . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it was achieved , not by the creation of a new theory , but rather by what amounted to an inspired piece of tinkering with classical physics . |
| 11 | Not only wrote it , but published it and made what seemed to a poorly-paid lecturer to be a very acceptable amount of money with it . |
| 12 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 13 | Surprised by what seemed like a complete change of subject , Robbie nevertheless shook her head . |
| 14 | The alternative to managerialism was ‘ corporatism ’ , a concept which had earlier found application in the study of fascism but which was now dusted off for use in what seemed like a new social era . |
| 15 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 16 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 17 | Endill did not move for what seemed like a long time . |
| 18 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 19 | The pressure of his kiss deepened in what seemed like a powerful and shocking invasion of her senses . |
| 20 | It was going to take Le Roux time to resolve the legal issues and to raise the £8 million , so to prevent the deal slipping away , he came up with what seemed like a clever wheeze at the time : Norton chairman Jimmy Tildesley would buy FUS personally , and ‘ warehouse ’ the company until Norton had the funds to buy it from him . |
| 21 | Billions would be poured into what seemed like a black and bottomless hole . |
| 22 | For a moment there was a stunned silence from his workmates and then pent-up breath was released in what seemed like a communal sigh , before the chief waggoner yelled , ‘ Come on ! |
| 23 | The toothless old mare only turned her head and gave Granny what seemed like a horsey laugh too . |
| 24 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 25 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 26 | In what seemed like a bizarre dress rehearsal of the fate awaiting his namesake , the Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson , words like ‘ drugs ’ , ‘ disgrace ’ , ‘ cheat ’ and ‘ liar ’ recurred in almost every newspaper . |
| 27 | Now she was in what seemed like a natural theatre , a deep , round hollow in the ground . |
| 28 | As word of what seemed like a miraculous survival spread , the gloom within Palestinian communities throughout the Middle East turned to joy . |
| 29 | Rarely , and this was one of the times , she knew she was tied to him by what seemed like a tight cord of anxiety that vibrated to his needs , never hers ; how she was afflicted by him , how he weighed her down . |
| 30 | The band came for what seemed like a Royal visit to the EMI CD plant at Swindon , to see their song become the 100 000 000th disc to be produced there . |