Example sentences of "[verb] what [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jaunt from last night 's Brussels show has taken a nifty eight hours , guitarist Julian Swales is grumbling about his stubble , and Patrick is off and running again , revealing what bargains a young man can get for ten deutschmarks in a darkened back room in Hamburg 's reeperbahn . |
| 2 | It takes time to discover what subjects a particular client will respond to . |
| 3 | The High Court is being asked to define what constitutes a genuine gypsy . |
| 4 | Is it possible to define what makes a good parent ? |
| 5 | ROGER GANNEXPLAINS WHAT MAKES A GOOD FILE SERVER AND PUTS THREE DEDICATED MACHINES THROUGH THEIR PACES . |
| 6 | They specify what makes a good person and a good teacher . |
| 7 | Although most of us do n't have the time or the inclination to record what tickles a particular customer 's fancy when it comes to paying , it does nevertheless pay off to make that extra effort and note what it is that works — particularly with large customers . |
| 8 | How does the analyst decide what constitutes a satisfactory unit for analysis ? |
| 9 | We had to climb what seemed a never-ending staircase to a high platform where we took our seats in a punt at the top of a slide having water rushing down it . |
| 10 | E. John Brown started what became a famous shipyard , now called Govan Shipbuilders , at Clydebank , in Glasgow . |
| 11 | In determining what constitutes a reasonable prospect it is to be assumed that the prospect given by the facts and other matters known to the creditor at the time he entered into the transaction resulting in the debt was a reasonable prospect ( s 271(4) ) . |
| 12 | They have to , in order to be able to decide what constitutes a sensible experiment . |
| 13 | It would be presumptuous to call what follows a collective biography and it would certainly be unwise to claim any great statistical value for such findings as there are . |
| 14 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 15 | Mehringer was slumped in the rope when his partner , above , saw what seemed a huge sheet of glass cascading down . |
| 16 | Incautiously taking what seemed a marvellous idea from a friend , the notion of two people who each wished to get rid of someone swapping victims , he discovered when his book was written that this was precisely the plot for a novel by Patricia Highsmith , Stranger on a Train , which neither he nor his friend knew of . |
| 17 | The difficulty comes in identifying what constitutes a valid claim . |
| 18 | Alyakkh is a daughter of Jones 's Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Al Bahathri and , while she may never aspire to her dam 's position in turf history , she should be capable of winning what appears a modest contest . |
| 19 | A chance to see what makes a perfect ploughman . |
| 20 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |
| 21 | The pervasiveness of a version of religion as culturally cosmetic subtly does a lot of harm to people ; it can be very dismissive and hurtful , marginalizing what makes a religious person tick . |
| 22 | This passage illustrates in a vivid way the fact that the arrangements the judges have made with the Inns are merely the machinery through which the judges perform what remains a judicial duty , and also how decisions on rights of audience are different from decisions on call to the Bar . |
| 23 | ‘ A CID johnny called on us , asking if we could say what time a certain person came home last Tuesday . |
| 24 | Who knows what makes a good nurse ? |
| 25 | And if anyone knows what makes a good hospital waiting room it is her . |
| 26 | We can legitimately ask what does a senior official based in Whitehall and acting as a policy adviser to a minister have in common with an administrative officer working in a local branch of the Department of Social Security other than the fact that they are both civil servants ? |