Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what began as a simple strategy to sell denim trews to impressionable , pliable teenage minds became an inter-agency conceptual war as the adpeople convinced themselves that late-Eighties Britain was in the grip of a nostalgia boom . |
| 2 | Thus what began as a specific and separate set of issues involving such matters as landscape change , pesticide use , urban and industrial development , resource depletion , recreational demand and the preservation of rare flora and fauna have been linked together in a much more comprehensive debate about environmental matters . |
| 3 | Thus what looks like a perfect example of a ‘ horns of a dilemma ’ structure , turns out not to be so — it was a game that could have been played two or three lessons or ten lessons later . |
| 4 | It is impossible to tell which is earth and which is sky , though eastward what looks like a whiter than usual cloud must surely be snow on the fells of Furness . |
| 5 | This is , of course , just what happens in a real tree . |
| 6 | Nancy Stewart tells you exactly what to do in a life-threatening situation |
| 7 | Not even Europe 's governing body knows exactly what happened in a Russian League game involving Dinamo Moscow that earned him such a heavy punishment . |
| 8 | I was in a car/taxi/bus once which shot through a red light . |
| 9 | In county cricket it is rare enough , happening only once last summer when Warwickshire played Hampshire in the NatWest semi-final and both teams had two Smiths on their side , but in Test cricket , the Christchurch match chalked up what looks like a first . |
| 10 | Theta ( 4.3 ) is in the same field with Alpha ( 4.1 ) , making up what looks like a wide pair ; Alpha is white , Theta decidedly orange . |
| 11 | So Hewlett-Packard 's approach is to set up what amounts to a high-tech classroom in a select group of schools . |
| 12 | The horse does not remember logically what happened in a certain situation , but it remembers the associated emotion . |
| 13 | Paxton slid open a drawer in his desk and took out what looked like a floor-by-floor plan of the three-storey building . |
| 14 | He left hold of one arm and thrust his hand into his coat pocket and brought out what looked like a narrow tube ; then glancing first one way then the other , he said : ‘ This wo n't hurt you and you 'll come quietly . ’ |
| 15 | The Italians wanted to find out what happened inside a nuclear reactor when a pipe taking cooling water into the reactor burst . |
| 16 | Some of this information you will quickly learn and will feel able to discuss with patients , but other items ( e.g. what to expect after a particular operation ) you may not know enough about . |
| 17 | The sites and forms of these have constantly been changing , so that often what appears as a nucleated village around a green can be shown to be the last , and a relatively late , development in the landscape . |
| 18 | Then what sounded like a queer sort of telephone number . |
| 19 | Governmental efforts to bring about what amounted to a cultural revolution intensified in the 1650s , when England came under the control of army leaders such as Oliver Cromwell who considered the reform of the nation 's morality one of their chief priorities . |
| 20 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |