Example sentences of "what [was/were] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a grey area , and everything that we do is totally ethical and professional , but obviously what were talking about is obtaining information . |
| 2 | That 's what were talking about . |
| 3 | ‘ Friends close to me probably saw what was written about me and the criticism I took from every angle . |
| 4 | And you could both write something maybe about your grading maybe a little bit about what was good , what was hard , what was easy , what was boring about this cos I think there was a lot of hard work , there was n't much play in it today was there ? |
| 5 | Moreover , a closer look at individual patients provides support for what was said about the heterogeneity of groups at the start of this section . |
| 6 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
| 7 | I agree with what was said about joyriding . |
| 8 | Almost all of what was said about this in Chapter 3 is relevant wherever TNCs create jobs , but there are some additional factors to be considered where this occurs in the Third World . |
| 9 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 10 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 11 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 12 | What was known about Pound 's association with Eliot did Pound 's reputation no good at all . |
| 13 | The antihistamines , which became well known late in the 1940s ( see Chapter 12 ) , turned out to have several properties which would not have been predicted from what was known about histamine . |
| 14 | I asked Fleischmann what was known about this and he laughed as he said ‘ Not enough ! ’ |
| 15 | They show not what was known about the event , but only some aspects of how it was talked about ’ . |
| 16 | For many , including myself , this meant looking at children 's early attempts at reading in the context of what was known about the strength of their urge to find meaning , about their acquisition of grammar and syntax , and about their language awareness . |
| 17 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 18 | Would the expression simply be included in the list of what was talked about , or would it prompt the question ‘ Why does he say that here ? ’ |
| 19 | But what was striking about the three-year-old 's behaviour here was that they did this for twenty trials . |
| 20 | What was striking about the instant response to Stanley 's emancipation proposals in 1833 was that it came from Howick , until recently in charge , at the Colonial Office , of the emancipation question , and that his strongest dissent arose from the failure of the plan to chart a move as soon as possible directly from slavery to free labour without bothering with an apprenticeship stage . |
| 21 | Yet what was striking about the open meeting to discuss the plan that was held on May 25th in London 's Albert Hall was the names ' total loss of confidence in Lloyd 's leadership . |
| 22 | I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’ |
| 23 | So , what else is there apart from what was talking about ? |
| 24 | Yeah , that 's what was talking about . |
| 25 | What was disturbing about him was the impression he gave one of the potential of undercover intimidation , difficult to pin down and therefore impossible to counter . |
| 26 | I 'd like to get back to what was saying about how it 's soul that really characterizes us , it 's soul that carries out individuality , and , and not the body . |
| 27 | This is basically er what was saying about self help was n't it ? |