Example sentences of "[verb] what [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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) ) . |
| 10 | They have to , in order to be able to decide what constitutes a sensible experiment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The difficulty comes in identifying what constitutes a valid claim . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A chance to see what makes a perfect ploughman . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Who knows what makes a good nurse ? |
| 19 | And if anyone knows what makes a good hospital waiting room it is her . |
| 20 | 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 ? |