Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun pl] [verb] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | About 5,000 pink flamingos in western Kenya have died of a bacterial infection in recent weeks , which veterinarians say is a natural reaction to over-population . |
2 | A man whose house was twice hit by lightning in a fortnight has been talking about the experience , which bookmakers say is a two-billion-to one-chance … |
3 | Hull city council , which Ministers accept is a good , efficiently run council , wanted to enforce the law , but , in practice , it can not be enforced . |
4 | Zuccarelli will not discuss what is inside his ‘ Ringo ’ recording head instead expounding a psycho-acoustic theory to disguise what engineers suspect is a simple advance in old-fashioned binaural recording . |
5 | The appointment of McDonald , who was still an interviewer with Trinidadian TV when News At Ten first went on the air , fits in with what sources suggest is a new reliance on star names . |
6 | In what police say was a tragic coincidence , gunfire was heard from a house across the street . |