Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were deluged with what the French call le corbeau , poison-pen letters accusing neighbours , business competitors and colleagues of everything from listening to the BBC to being an active resistant ( of whom there were , in fact , very few indeed until the eve of the Liberation ) . |
| 2 | His retirement years were marked by what the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 20 described as " a consistent championship of causes " . |
| 3 | Of particular importance to the subject of this paper , they emphasize in their summary that the client in the studies reviewed ‘ is engaged as a voluntary collaborator ’ , and his ‘ motivations were directed toward what the social workers were attempting to provide ’ . |
| 4 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 5 | At noon on Sunday 18 November 1883 , all the public clocks in North America were changed to what the New York Herald called ‘ the new standard of time agreed upon … as an obvious convenience in all social and business matters ’ . |
| 6 | More than 1,000 others were murdered with what the FBI calls ‘ personal weapons ’ ; ie , hands , feet , fists . |
| 7 | The first of these reports was given on July 2 by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , who was heard in what the Independent of the following day described as an atmosphere of " chilly disdain " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
| 11 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 12 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |
| 15 | and was to do with what the rights would be erm in terms of benefits and in terms of compensation from the council when they moved out . |
| 16 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 19 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
| 21 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 22 | He was deposed by what the Western Church regards as the 8th Ecumenical Council . |