Example sentences of "what were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title . |
| 2 | It would , by implication , be one of five constituent parts of the Indochinese Federation — which meant that Vietnam itself would be divided into three parts — and they , together with other parts of what were called the ‘ French Community ’ would form a French Union . |
| 3 | When , in 1939 , The Architects ' Journal conducted a survey to find what were considered the best modern buildings in Britain , Battersea was placed second — and was the favourite of such unlikely celebrities as Sir Kenneth Clark , Rebecca West and Charles Laughton . |
| 4 | Shortly before the introduction of the national curriculum , the percentages of time actually spent by the average secondary fourth and fifth year child in England on what were to become the national curriculum subjects ( see below ) of the 1988 Act , or their nearest equivalents , were as shown in Figure 10.1 . |
| 5 | To walk the overgrown towpath to Branson 's barge , bang your head as you descended the small , brass-railed ladder and step over the pile of nappies ; to be served stir-fried vegetables and noodles , fresh orange juice and Perrier ; to be treated to a private exposition of what were becoming the most famous teeth in the record industry — to attain these was a sign that a group was truly regarded as important . |