Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 2 | He said that it did not matter how the £3. 1 million was acquired and that it was what the company did with the money that mattered . |
| 3 | Ellie was n't at all sure what a peignoir was , but if it was what the woman was wearing , no she most certainly had not . |
| 4 | But it was what the executive council thought the increase in wages should be not what the members thought . |
| 5 | It is absolutely clear that the Leader of the House has either no authority or insufficient courage to say whether that promise was categorical or whether it was what the country believes it to have been — evidence of a Prime Minister panicked into making a promise that he has no intention of keeping . |