Example sentences of "what [art] [noun pl] [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the students learned was ‘ dry as dust and stagnant as pond water ’ , one young man told me about his studies . |
| 2 | No one supposes that international relations can be fully understood just by assembling a patchwork of what the actors say was in their minds . |
| 3 | What the kidnappers wanted was not specified . |
| 4 | Well , in this particular experiment , what the experimenters did was , when the parental birds left the nest , they stuffed the erm , the chicks as full with worms as they could possibly stuff it . |
| 5 | What the planners ignored was the effect of competition on profitability . |
| 6 | But what the screens revealed was not likely to make me feel easy . |
| 7 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 8 | What the traces showed was , as we would have anticipated , a steady background buzz of the spontaneous firing of the cells of the IMHV . |
| 9 | When the weather calmed her master spent several days trawling for the missing anchors with grapnels in what the charts said was 30 fathoms of water . |
| 10 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 11 | How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ? |
| 12 | And in a nut shell , it is our case , we say the police , what the police did was reasonable in the circumstances and indeed to go any further and say what they did was necessary in the circumstances . |
| 13 | But politics is the art of achievable and what the Tories wanted was not achievable on the ground . |