Example sentences of "what [be] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What are seen by the public as the most depraved of men still have profound needs to express their sorrow even when , with the most damaged people , it seems to lie too deep for tears .
2 Conventionally the rules should be confined to what are conceived as the exchange 's affairs .
3 In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism .
4 The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings .
5 What are doing with the people you work with then ?
6 We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in .
7 Whatever the temptation to make films with what Robert Wagner called ‘ a strong sociological punch ’ there was never any danger that the studios would move away from what were regarded as the essentials of a Hollywood film .
8 The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals .
9 I think what were dealing within a programme like this is very much the tip of the iceberg
10 The I was n't talking about what were included in the calculations , what I was talking about and we may be at cross purposes for that reason is what the policy provides for .
11 At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will .
12 Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ?
13 Far removed from this Spartan scene reigned the Kaiser , in an environment that to some of his disquieted advisers seemed rapidly to be regaining the splendour of pre-war days in inverse proportion to the hardships what were mounting in the rest of the country .
14 I suppose he was your first lover , and we all know what 's said about a woman and her first lover .
15 It 's what 's passed around , it 's not what 's said in the music . ’
16 I 've never felt threatened by these images and certainly never felt compelled to buy what 's represented in the advertisements .
17 Portraiture has a namby-pamby ‘ not-quite- serious-art ’ reputation , because of what 's wanted of the painters . ’
18 His slightly pedantic manner is n't perhaps quite what 's wanted for the part , but he has studied it closely , sings it with unfailing musicality , as regards intonation , note values , dynamics and phrasing , and in Ac ; t 3 catches most of Tristan 's desperation and longing .
19 ‘ Amazing what 's hidden beneath the surface , is n't it ?
20 ‘ We can scarcely do any better in terms of results we 're winning regularly , we 're second in the League , still in the Cup … but given what 's happening off the pitch , it 's a bloody miracle we 're not bottom . ’
21 Crosby said : ‘ If I worry about what 's happening up the road , I 'll lose track of what we are doing here .
22 As a story line it 's not all because it does n't say anything about the girl , it does n't say where she 's going , where she 's come from and what 's happening on the way .
23 We can use the technique of spotlighting , focusing attention on one group 's work : " Look what 's happening on the farms . "
24 Make sure that everyone in your team knows what 's happening on the revenue front today , this week , this month .
25 NEXT MONTH What 's happening on the wine front in July and exotic vintages from the supermarkets
26 ‘ Let me outline what 's happening with the firm at present and you can begin to gather your thoughts . ’
27 He said yesterday : ‘ I wo n't decide anything until I get Newcastle 's offer and also see what 's happening with the boss . ’
28 And that 's what 's happening with the council you see .
29 what 's happening with the tomatoes is that tomatoes where they gone ?
30 So what 's what 's happening with the chlorine then ?
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