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	The horse does not remember logically what happened in a certain situation , but it remembers the associated emotion .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	Then what sounded like a queer sort of telephone number .

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