Example sentences of "of what [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was significant that this terse declaration spoke only of the military aspects of what had been above all a social and political conflict . |
| 2 | National referendums held in November 1988 [ see pp. 36320 ; 36505-06 ] and February 1989 [ see p. 36475 ] overwhelmingly approved amendments to the Constitution transferring power away from the presidency and marking the end of what had been in effect a one-party state . |
| 3 | Much of what had been in the public sector of the old bourgeois state would be destroyed , while what had been in private hands would be taken over . |
| 4 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |
| 5 | His own description of what followed is worth repeating : ‘ I found this location in Glasgow that I really liked and took about 15 shots of it . |
| 6 | These fortifications deserve a word : much of what survives is of fourth-century date , for a good reason : in the fifth century Athens had her fleet , and that was the chief instrument of her classical imperialism . |
| 7 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |