Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further study of Les Sylphides reveals Fokine 's great understanding of the dance rhythms which he felt he had to make visible whenever he was using well-recognised dance forms . |
| 2 | He was concerned to discover how they were winning lucrative car parking contracts and whether there was a leak of information from his own company . |
| 3 | He then launched an inquiry into why she was granted Legal Aid . |
| 4 | Beverley 's achievements made the headlines last year when she was named outright winner and Science and Technology Section winner in the Cosmopolitan /Clairol Achievement Awards , a competition which aims to highlight women who have attained excellence in their professions . |
| 5 | But it 's been adapted , it 's been worn by an ordinary person doing everyday things , and I think that 's , it 's something that 's , it 's very important to remember when you 're studying Victorian fashion and Victorian costume , that actually a lot of the documentary evidence gives a very biased picture and that to find clothes like this , I think you get a much more realistic picture of what people actually wore . |
| 6 | Yes , I mean I 've got to say that , I thought they kept going at two nothing down you know sides , and I 've played in games where you 're playing top opposition and you can go under a little bit ca n't you ? |
| 7 | That is why we are putting enormous effort into team briefing and getting out staff to feel involved in the railway , ’ says Gordon Pettitt . |
| 8 | For a start ‘ Standard rate food charges are payable on a continuous basis by people in Marital Categories 3 , 4 or 5 when they are occupying single accommodation , and also by personnel who are in receipt of Special Messing Allowance , Retail Messing Allowance or are accommodated under the Approved Board and Lodging Scheme . |
| 9 | When a child arrives in this country unaccompanied and seeking political asylum — in some cases , it is extremely obvious why they are seeking political asylum — it is very important that the child is treated properly , as any homeless or friendless child should be treated . |
| 10 | Mr Portillo , at 38 the youngest Cabinet member since Dr David Owen , who was also 38 when he was made Foreign Secretary in 1977 , replaces Mr David Mellor , the new Heritage Minister , who presided over a significant increase in public spending in the run up to the election . |
| 11 | He had certainly entered Edward 's service by 1274 , when he was appointed joint custodian of the vacant see of Durham . |
| 12 | Anderson 's life in Africa ended in 1978 , when he was appointed Managing Director of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation ( CFTC ) . |
| 13 | After the war Humphrys became political agent , Khyber ( 1919 ) , and deputy foreign secretary of the government of India ( 1921 ) , a post which he held until 1922 , when he was appointed British minister to Afghanistan . |
| 14 | He was a much-respected college commander at Sandhurst from 1953 to 1955 , when he was appointed British instructor at the US Command and General Staff College . |
| 15 | His show-business break came in 1956 when he was appointed musical director for the show Cranks which ran in London and on New York 's Broadway . |
| 16 | Colbeck remained as master in the Wilson Line until 1912 , when he was appointed marine superintendent in the London office . |
| 17 | Through his veins flowed a potent mixture of Mexican and Irish blood , and a little goading from the US Marine Corps was enough to have him taking them all on when he was filming Guadalcanal Diary in 1943 . |
| 18 | The 14th Dalai Lama , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , fled to India , where he was granted political asylum and in 1964 China declared him to be a traitor . |
| 19 | Born in Austria , he had been imprisoned after the Second World War but escaped to Argentina , where he was granted Argentinian citizenship . |
| 20 | Similarly , Daley Thompson , the celebrated Essex Beagles decathlete , was brought up in a home where he was denied parental encouragement for his sport . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you see , there could 'ave been five 'undred quid in fifty-quid notes in that letter , which was why he was spittin' blue murder . ’ |