Example sentences of "what was [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fewer people now read an evening paper : if they did , it was primarily to see what was on TV . |
| 2 | The single most important reason quoted to the Press Commission for reading a provincial paper was in order to find out what was on TV that night . |
| 3 | ‘ Because what was on board was too dangerous to be anywhere near land . |
| 4 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 5 | And at the same time you 've got ta be able to talk to the managing director and have lunch with him and talk about what was on television and what the state of the country is and the economic situation and everything , you know . |
| 6 | Attempting to evaluate what was on show leaves a very strange impression . |
| 7 | What was on telly , something I wanted . |
| 8 | And you probably wondered what was on fire or were the spaceship had landed . |
| 9 | I was acutely aware of the urgent need to find some work to do , so I combed the national and local newspapers to see what was on offer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Naturally they took what was on offer , and no doubt thoroughly enjoyed the experience — just as a later Scottish politician , James VI , did when he collected £58,000 in pensions from the notoriously parsimonious Elizabeth , without feeling any need to deviate from the path which suited him and his kingdom , and without being regarded as particularly unprincipled . |
| 12 | Intending clients could stroll in from the street , look over what was on offer , and come to an arrangement with the young lady of their choice . |
| 13 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 14 | Perhaps there was a wish also to demonstrate that what was on offer was a genuinely single system , combining both of the old systems of examination . |
| 15 | He did n't want them either , but he felt that for Timmy 's sake she should take what was on offer . |
| 16 | The visitors had not reached this far , preferring what was on offer in the town . |
| 17 | After half an hour 's discussion , Jan and he decided that he should ring up and see what was on offer . |
| 18 | Early down-town theatres could rely on the casual trade , the ‘ droppers-in ’ , but small-town and suburban halls had to go after their trade and it was essential that managers acquaint the whole community with what was on offer . |
| 19 | Most of the kids would be pretty unworldly , and unequipped to deal with what was on offer . |
| 20 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The restaurant was one of those informal places where there was no written menu and the waiters simply told you what was on offer . |
| 23 | It would be so easy to give in , simply to take what was on offer . |
| 24 | Mrs Donnelly said : ‘ I explained I did not want to buy any windows , but the salesman said he just wanted to show us what was on offer so I let him in . |
| 25 | Yasmin Awan and Tahira Khan , from the college 's multi-cultural unit , said information on what was on offer had been distributed to communities and along with home visits and promotional events people were coming forward . |
| 26 | So we decided to take a look at just a little of what was on offer — comparing the leading firework brand with a cheaper one on offer . |
| 27 | We are working within a straight jacket imposed by central government , but our choice was that budget , for all its faults in totality , for the fact that it was half a million less than it could be , and the budget put forward by the Labour party who had totally refused to negotiate on their budget , and therefore we ought to look at that budget in detail to see what was on offer , because it was n't very pretty . |
| 28 | Still , Newbolt at any rate was able to understand something of what was at stake . |
| 29 | If what was at stake was the existence of ICI , rather than its ownership , then concern would be understandable . |
| 30 | 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 . |