Example sentences of "what was [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sherine Pherozshaw could n't find the party dress she wanted , she did n't make do with what was on offer in the shops . |
| 2 | The visitors had not reached this far , preferring what was on offer in the town . |
| 3 | Of course , Chesterfield 's range of occupations was limited when compared with what was on offer in Worcester , Leicester or York , but the stalls and shops gathered in and around the market place provided goods and services that attracted rural families from miles around . |
| 4 | Just as at Henry VIII 's death in 1547 , what was at stake in 1542 was nothing less than the religious and political future of the kingdom ; and that was entirely uncertain . |
| 5 | But the significance of what was at stake in this shift in terminology needs to be spelled out . |
| 6 | What was at issue in that case was the right to acquire , use or dispose of immovable property on the territory of another member state ; the court held that that right was the ‘ corollary ’ of freedom of establishment . |
| 7 | You had to cherish what was in front of you in Port Talbot , with one of the biggest steel works in Europe belching out smoke and the wind crossing Swansea Bay to bring the remorseless rain . |
| 8 | Me a policewoman , a DI , never saw what was in front of my face . ’ |
| 9 | They ate what was in front of them . |
| 10 | The image in film is a two-dimensional ( 2-D ) rectangle , a ‘ frame ’ , which would normally represent what was in front of the camera during an exposure of ‘ 1 50th of a second . |
| 11 | But then men were never very good at seeing what was in front of their noses . |
| 12 | She did n't need Dr David Kent , who obviously could n't see what was in front of his face . |
| 13 | What was in store for them and their young but the fox 's maw , the poisoned grain and the angry scatter-shot of the farmer 's gun ? |
| 14 | They had no idea what was in store for them ; their education was basic and there was no television to enlarge their horizons . |
| 15 | Of course , we knew roughly what was in store for us , but it exceeded what we 'd imagined . |
| 16 | Dismissing the assault as a subject of no concern , Joyce turned upon the intellectuals themselves with a promise of what was in store for them . |
| 17 | Tutilo would be warned of what was in store for him by the end of Vespers , if not before . |
| 18 | The next day , I was told what was in store for me and my schoolmates . |