Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 2 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 3 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 4 | Evidence from Brean Down , Somerset , is not so clear , but there were drastic changes , and evidence of demolition was followed by what the excavator , A. M. ApSimon , depicts as ‘ squatter occupation ’ . |
| 5 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 6 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |