Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 13 | 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 ? " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 16 | He was deposed by what the Western Church regards as the 8th Ecumenical Council . |