Example sentences of "what it was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't even tell me what it was over the phone . ’ |
| 2 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
| 3 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 4 | Goes back to what it was at the start . |
| 5 | you found at the Country Dancing , it was different people that was at the Country Dancing than what than what it was at the more at the the ordinary dances . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , I was so delighted to celebrate the mere existence of this euphoria that , as a reader pointed out , I made no attempt to analyze exactly what it was about the theme parks that had produced it . |
| 7 | DeVore returned the bow , then turned , intrigued , wondering what it was about the boy that could so thoroughly spook the seemingly-imperturbable Douglas . |
| 8 | Banfield journeyed to the hinterland of southern Italy to try to find out what it was about the original culture of Italian immigrants that so retarded their sociological development . |
| 9 | And they , then the other ones er there was one with General Motors and it was a , a huge thing , you were ten , it was a huge building , modern building but you just could n't tell what it was from the outside . |
| 10 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 11 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
| 12 | The doubling of profits in Communications brings the level back only to what it was in the second half of last year . |
| 13 | Then I try to discover what it was in the vision that charmed and translated me . |
| 14 | The proposal is to raise the level to what it was in the 1930s . |
| 15 | The North Shields fishing industry , life in which is interestingly and sympathetically described in Beter Mortimore 's ( 1987 ) The Last of The Hunters , is now pretty much what it was in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The statement that a rule exists may now no longer be what it was in the simple case of customary rules — an external statement of the fact that a certain mode of behaviour was generally accepted as a standard in practice . |
| 17 | He can compare Germany with what it was in the Thirties . |
| 18 | If people and the building of not only buildings but mutual trust are to the fore , then education needs to be fundamentally different from what it was in the product and process phases . |
| 19 | if you have R ten times what it was in the pres the previous one , you 'll now only get a tenth of the current out . |
| 20 | It must be hoped that in the 1990s the nature of the modern business cycle is different from what it was in the 1920s and that the long-term devastation caused by Britain 's return to the Gold Standard will not be repeated . |
| 21 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 22 | ‘ In 1992 , only 15 days per 1,000 employees were lost through strikes , less than half of that in 1991 , which itself was a very good year , and just a fraction of what it was in the late 1980s . |
| 23 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
| 24 | The Prophet 's gaze switched to it and his eyes widened as he saw what it was by the light of the moon . |