Example sentences of "what [was/were] [verb] a [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On a visit to England in 1914 , Charles Pathé initiated what was to become a French sport , mocking the backwardness of British production . |
| 12 | Trotsky thus drew attention to what was to become a recurring theme in critiques of Soviet Marxism — the bureaucratization of the mass political party . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He said that at times it appeared that the only effective opposition to what was becoming a single-party government was from the press . |
| 17 | As the prospect of testifying approached , on Nov. 16 Kanemaru followed what was becoming a well-established modern Japanese custom by admitting himself to hospital . |
| 18 | In March Hedilla had talks not only with members of the Comunión Tradicionalista , but also with some of the supporters of the Alphonsine dynasty , whose political future also depended on the outcome of what was becoming a bitter , subterranean confrontation within the main conflict against the Republic . |
| 19 | But in 1979 , to the Elysée 's amazement and consternation , Roger Gicquel , anchorman on TFI ‘ s 8 p.m. news , alluded — albeit prudently — to what was becoming a French ‘ Watergate ’ — ‘ l'affaire des diamants ’ , in which President Giscard was suspected of accepting diamonds from the self-styled ‘ Emperor ’ Bokassa . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Just over 60 children enjoyed what was considered a successful evening . |
| 22 | Both fall well short of what was considered a reasonable requirement in 1971 . |
| 23 | 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 . |