Example sentences of "[was/were] [Wh det] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GREEN SHOOTS of recovery were what the Chancellor said he could see last year , but the rest of us are still waiting for them . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | There were what the head called ‘ social concerns ’ behind his transfer . |
| 4 | Until these larger sets can be made in production quantities , electronics companies will probably push miniature sets as if they were what the consumer wanted all along . |
| 5 | That was what the jury had decided . |
| 6 | We do n't believe that was what the public intended when they donated to the Trust . ’ |
| 7 | They have cut the price , er of meals charged to the children , they 've er made some adjustments o c , to the menus offered , which was what the parents wanted , and as a result they 've actually increased the take-up of school meals by something like sixty percent . |
| 8 | This took the approach that mother and baby health and welfare was what the women wanted , seeing the woman 's main role in society was as a breeder . |
| 9 | That , at any rate , was what the headmaster thought , watching him keenly from his sitting-room , sipping a cup of atrocious coffee . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was sure that the Liberal idea was what the country needed . |
| 12 | He was content with the money he earned , which was what the agents asked . ’ |
| 13 | DO IT DO IT DO IT — that was what the dream had said . |
| 14 | That was what the man came to see her about . |
| 15 | Opposite the Cages was what the eagles called the Three Island Pond where ducks and flamingos were kept . |
| 16 | He had gained his reputation in the mountains of North Africa , but he was what the Americans call a ‘ hard nose ’ with little respect for civilians . |
| 17 | If that was what the speaker intended to say , why did n't he just say it ? |
| 18 | This was what the bear-leader seemed to be asking of the passenger he now approached , the man who sat in the seat next to the doors . |
| 19 | Nor can he supply goods or services in a substantially different way from those ordered , for example by providing a 1Mb microcomputer when a 10Mb version was what the customer ordered . |
| 20 | That was what the present had on offer to Michael Holly . |
| 21 | It was what the Press admired as my dedication , though now it seems more like a selfishness allied to ruthlessness , ’ he said , frowning . |
| 22 | Thus one conspirator in the 1961 Great Heavy Electrical Industry conspiracy said : ‘ We understand this was what the company wanted us to do ’ , and another reported that , ‘ It ( the instruction ) came to me from my superior … but my impression was that it came to him from higher up ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was what the doctors call a false pregnancy , probably brought on by her husband 's sudden death , feelings of guilt . |
| 25 | It was n't just that the parents had to be kept under control despite the fact that they and the police were in many respects working at cross purposes , it was the danger of some third party interfering … a go-between with power and influence was what the Captain dreaded most … |
| 26 | You know , a very good example of this , that always sticks in my mind , telling me erm , that once she was analyzing a woman and er , a lot of the analysis was concerned with erm , conflicts , erm , relating to masturbation in childhood , and constantly felt that this was what the analysis seemed to have done , because the woman consistently denied this had ever happened . |
| 27 | I never thought to mention it again , it was what the brother wanted , just one more thing to move . |
| 28 | Mrs Flaherty was what the nans called the Wrong Element . |
| 29 | That was what the professor thought about those two beetles going round the pebble . |
| 30 | Soldiering was what the Colonel understood . |