Example sentences of "what there was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was was bent in fact on what there was to be done in the village and in the town : did n't stop to cough . |
| 2 | In view of the strength of the case against Copernicus , it might well be asked just what there was to be said in favour of the Copernican theory in 1543 . |
| 3 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 4 | However , cultural Russification directly threatened those who claimed to carry the cultural traditions of the minority peoples , from the priesthood to what there was of a modern intelligentsia . |
| 5 | He must know , at least casually , what there was of value there . |
| 6 | The village , what there was of it , also seemed deserted . |
| 7 | It also brought cheer to the giant Decca record company , which had set up Deram precisely to capture back from the new independent companies some of the money pumping into what there was of Britain 's counter culture . |
| 8 | The small fellow climbed from the rucksack and stretched what there was of himself to stretch . |
| 9 | What there was of it was represented in Parliament by Labour MP Robert Maxwell . |
| 10 | What there was in Genesis was a clear statement concerning the Creator Spirit hovering over the waters , and this provided the model for Van Helmont 's conception of matter , with water as its primary form . |
| 11 | Er there , there 'll be a very small number of houses now which are substandard , compared with what there was in nineteen fifty four when I first went on the council . |
| 12 | To-day , the Stoddard Group encompasses nearly all of what there was in Scotland , with BMK adding a last major chapter . |
| 13 | I was just working out what there was in it . |