Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That summer , scoop necks and arms bare to the shoulders were what every woman wore , with hair loose , or caught in a gleaming beehive . |
| 2 | Opposite the Cages was what the eagles called the Three Island Pond where ducks and flamingos were kept . |
| 3 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 4 | Societies of boys were what the public schools essentially remained , with the masters forming no more than a thin crust of adult authority . |
| 5 | With high land values and the lowest UK unemployment , almost 50 per cent of the very small holdings were what the survey classed as ‘ amenity farming ’ , in which land and buildings are acquired with ‘ a desirable residence and the agricultural activities carried out largely for pleasure ’ . |
| 6 | For some members of staff , study skills was what the ESSE/L Project was really all about . |