Example sentences of "[v-ing] what [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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) ) . |
| 3 | Incautiously taking what seemed a marvellous idea from a friend , the notion of two people who each wished to get rid of someone swapping victims , he discovered when his book was written that this was precisely the plot for a novel by Patricia Highsmith , Stranger on a Train , which neither he nor his friend knew of . |
| 4 | The difficulty comes in identifying what constitutes a valid claim . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |