Example sentences of "what it [verb] [vb infin] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what it does show was that , in 1979 , small savers were treated the same as larger savers . |
| 2 | What it did mean was that the presence of the killer pack effectively cut off that particular escape route if it were needed . |
| 3 | What it did do was confer material benefits , which were desperately needed at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 4 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 5 | What it did exercise was hegemony , and what it increasingly determined was policy . |