Example sentences of "what [be] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet showed a keen interest in what were plainly a male leopard 's calling cards , his scent marks on trees and bushes . |
| 2 | Eight new Golf and two Vento versions will be added to what 's already a comprehensive range . |
| 3 | A sculptor and a rock star have teamed up to honour hundreds of unskilled labourers who toiled in difficult , often dangerous conditions to build what 's now a busy commuter railway line . |
| 4 | Down in the basement , what is effectively a small warehouse holds and dispatches all RSGB publications and other radio books purchased by mail order , with the income earned providing a useful supplement to the Society 's funds . |
| 5 | Last Wednesday saw the formation of what is effectively a Japanese version of the now defunct ACE Advanced Computing Environment consortium . |
| 6 | This is a good way of doing things in that it enables what is effectively a limitless number of different codes to be used , with as little or as much data as desired being attached to each code . |
| 7 | Richard Parker Landscapes Colour Around Us , The Art Gallery , Queensway , Billingham ( until June 27 ) IN what is effectively a full-scale retrospective with work that goes back to 1958 , Richard Parker shares with us his great love of landscape . |
| 8 | BSkyB was unavailable to comment on the ramifications of the BBC withdrawal or on the launch of what is effectively a competitive channel to its own . |
| 9 | She is making what is conventionally a masculine choice . |
| 10 | As a subversion of what is already a mock form , Leapor 's poem has its own sophistication . |
| 11 | My final message to Mr Dave Ayres is to be in full receipt of his facts before passing judgement on a fellow canoeist , using sarcastic comments that only inflame what is already a sensitive situation . |
| 12 | These additional products will be integrated into the Contract Portfolio of products in the near future , further increasing the scope of what is already a large choice . |
| 13 | Constantly rising profits in what is generally a depressed area , suggest here is a latter day John Moores with a magic formula for success , based on doing the simple things properly . |
| 14 | Once again , we can recognize a certain truth in what is otherwise a misleading conception of style . |
| 15 | He has filed a PCT application ( 82/04174 ) in 30 countries for what is unashamedly a perpetual motion machine . |
| 16 | During what is normally a dead period , the company has sold nine farms since January . |
| 17 | With her stable in tip-top form , and plenty of improvement sure to surface , Relatively Special looks a cracking bet on what is traditionally a tough card for punters . |
| 18 | A pre-tax profit of nearly $42m for the quarter represents an improvement of almost $71m in what is traditionally a difficult winter quarter . |
| 19 | They must learn how to manipulate what is not a predictable machine into something which resembles one . |
| 20 | Beck , unbeaten in the Ryder Cup with 3½ points out of four , is the sole American survivor in what is clearly a non-vintage field for this year 's championship . |
| 21 | The importance of Norfolk County Council views are referred to in paragraph two point four point two and unless Norfolk support for route A can be obtained then Suffolk County Council will eventually be powerless to proceed with what is clearly a preferred option when measured objectively . |
| 22 | Moscovitch found support for his proposition in the fact that split-brain patients sometimes begin to write with the left hand what is clearly a correct response to a stimulus seen in the left visual field , but that then the left hemisphere takes over control and the response is finished incorrectly since the left half of the brain has not seen the stimulus ( Levy , Mebes and Sperry , 1971 ) . |
| 23 | Here we have what is clearly a well set-up series of dialogues : Wilekin with Margery ; Wilekin with Dame Sirith ; Dame Sirith with Margery ; only in the last five stanzas do we get anything more complicated , with three characters present in the same scene . |
| 24 | The two samples of European eagle owl mentioned in Chapter 1 ( Table 1.2 ) show little difference between what is clearly a fledgling pellet collection and one from the adults . |
| 25 | As Tour Commissionaer Deane Beman said last night : ‘ We all wish John the best in solving what is clearly a difficult situation for him and his family and we hope that a successful rehabilitation will lead to a return to the tour . ’ |
| 26 | She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake . |
| 27 | I do not propose to get involved in what is clearly a diversionary tack . |
| 28 | The evidence for the intensive use of sorghum and millets some 8,000 years ago indicates that such use first occurred much earlier than previously thought , and took place in what is today a rainless desert . |
| 29 | The grotesquely inappropriate and anti-food coloured board covers have presumably hampered their sales even at what is today a give-away price . |
| 30 | What is probably a unique collection of photographs of man 's best friend will be dispersed in a sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs . |