Example sentences of "what it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should remember Burke 's famous warning that rage and frenzy can tear down in an hour what it took centuries of prudence to build . |
| 2 | I was reading it , I just ca n't remember what it said saddle . |
| 3 | While Democrats in Congress gave support to the President 's decision to launch the biggest US military operation since the Vietnam War , Russia expressed ‘ deep concern ’ for what it dubbed gunboat diplomacy which violated the UN Charter . |
| 4 | The University Grants Committee made funds available for what it called restructuring , and universities began encouraging staff to take voluntary severance payments or enhanced early retirement . |
| 5 | The Commission issued a warning on Nov. 16 , for the first time , against what it called price-fixing by banks on interest rates-having frequently intervened over the commissions charged by banks on non-banking business . |
| 6 | Later in the same month , the DES published its Green Paper , Higher Education in England outside the Universities : Policy , Funding and Management , in which it presented two alternative models for a national body : what it called Model A , which was closely modelled on the one advocated by the local authorities on 15 July , and Model B , which was the one favoured by the DES . |
| 7 | As the tax burden edged up , so did the gap widen between the sum that a pay settlement gave workers and what it cost employers . |