Example sentences of "and what it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it did exercise was hegemony , and what it increasingly determined was policy . |
| 2 | His lecture took as its starting point the distinction drawn by the Wolfenden Committee between public and private behaviour , and what it thus considered to be the proper role of the criminal law in these areas . |
| 3 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |
| 4 | Many historians agree that there is a difference between what the state aimed to achieve and what it actually achieved . |
| 5 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |
| 6 | Broadly speaking , Swann provided a liberal , semi-official legitimation for tackling issues of racism ( or , more accurately , prejudice ) and what it coyly referred to as ‘ cultural pluralism ’ in all schools , including the so-called all-white schools which hitherto had maintained the stance of ‘ No problem ( i.e. blacks ) here ’ . |