Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | integrated team have shown tremendous enthusiasm and commitment in completing the construction to time and money against what sometimes seemed an impossibly challenging programme . ’ |
| 2 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 3 | He enjoys still the odd distinction of being the first person to take a soil sample at what later became the NATO headquarters at Mönchen Gladbach . |
| 4 | This crisis — believed , through ignorance of what really constituted a legal marriage , to be of world-shaking dimension — further compounded the prevailing atmosphere of gloom . |
| 5 | In a post-war climate where nationalisation was the key component in the economic sphere , and reorganisation and rationalisation of what already existed the most characteristic feature of social policy , ‘ planning ’ failed to dislodge the established administrative systems or to overcome the temptation to make do with ad hoc measures . |
| 6 | He was born a blood member of what then seemed a condemned and irrelevant tribe : he never forgot that . |
| 7 | We note in passing that initially there was no universal agreement about what exactly constituted a group . |
| 8 | He built the Waldorf section of what later became the Waldorf Astoria Hotel . |
| 9 | Matthias , for the first time , summoned Croat nobles to the Hungarian Diet and reorganised the defences against the Turks , building fortresses along the Sava and Kupa in what later became the military frontier zone . |