Example sentences of "what is [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means making representations at the initial draft stage , when public comment is sought , and going through what is effectively a planning appeal if the first comments are ignored and a formal objection has to be lodged . |
| 2 | You simply use the zoom levels to give you what is effectively a page preview . |
| 3 | I walk up the track past the fundamentalist missions , way above the coffee plantations , up into what is nominally a wildlife reserve . |
| 4 | But even writers who have no historical sense , like Mrs Radcliffe ( who provides Emily in 1584 with what is clearly a cottage ornee , complete with greenhouse , ‘ two excellent sitting rooms ’ and a rustic hall ) , are much more observant than their predecessors of different types of houses in the landscape . |
| 5 | Behind this monument from the past , no more than an old man 's rotten tooth , rise the buildings of the new age , featureless mathematical boxes assembled from concrete , their serried rows of uniform plate glass windows catching a gleam of what is probably the setting sun . |
| 6 | Paradoxically , what is evidently a fringe issue for the Scottish Law Society is becoming quite fraught within the profession . |
| 7 | • The Glasgow Sunday Mail reports on what is really a fishkeeping success — trying to turn it into a horror story . |
| 8 | And Malone wants a drastic improvement in what is now a preparation game for next Friday 's Irish Cup semi-final with Cliftonville . |
| 9 | Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi 's army were made . |
| 10 | Alex recalls the old Wilton sheds , now demolished , which stood in the open ground behind what is now the Glenpatrick Mill Shop . |
| 11 | Twenty thousand years ago , at the end of the Pleistocene , the melting of North America 's last great ice sheet engorged what is now the Susquehanna River , which then enlarged the Chesapeake Valley . |
| 12 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
| 13 | He took me down to London and I went and did an audition and I first appeared at what is now the Shaftesbury Theatre at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 14 | And again this proves to be the case : our example is found in Arctic Canada , in the high Arctic island of Spitsbergen , thousands of miles away in what is now the desert country of Nevada and Utah in the United States , in western Ireland , in Russia , and in northwestern Australia . |
| 15 | Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal . |
| 16 | Mr Trump , who has a penchant for naming his many buildings , hotels and casinos after himself , purchased what is now the Trump Shuttle from Eastern 's parent company , Texas Air Corp , in April for $365m . |
| 17 | Near the site , perhaps under what is now the Palazzo Arcivescovile , was the city 's first Bishop 's Palace , called the Domus , from which the name Duomo derives . |
| 18 | The Bedford Area Committee , in addition to its responsibility for the administration of relief , had the job of visiting , inspecting , and managing what is now the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 19 | The mobile belts of Proterozoic times extended the length of what is now the North Atlantic , from east Greenland and Norway in the north , via the British Isles , Newfoundland and the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa in the south . |
| 20 | erm One very important house is erm what is now the Newman Mobray Bookshop , and that of course is still very much as it was in the 17th Century . |
| 21 | The first full attempt at establishing a colony was Raleigh 's colony of Virginia , named for Elizabeth the virgin queen and located in what is now the Roanoke district of North Carolina . |
| 22 | A village church may seem an unlikely scene of industrial development , but the church of St Michael-in-the-Hamlet , in what is now the Liverpool suburb of Toxteth , is of considerable interest . |
| 23 | The water source is a constant trickle in a well dug beneath what is now the living room but which used to be the Pump room . |
| 24 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 25 | This area of pumiceous tuffs is only a small part of a much larger blanket of Pliocene ignimbrites covering more than 20 000 square kilometres , which originated from a catastrophic eruptive phase in the central sections of what is now the Kenya rift . |
| 26 | Sir Nicholas Pelham lived in what is now the White Hart , the Gorings of Danny built ‘ Pelham ’ House in 1579 ; even now it hides one of the finest Elizabethan panelled rooms in the county . |
| 27 | Collision along what is now the Indus-Tsangpo suture zone seems to have occurred from about the Late Paleocene until the Early Eocene , or possibly a little later . |
| 28 | Something similar happened in Vienna later , when the Emperor Franz Josef ordered the removal of the city 's walls , and replaced them with the famous Ring , with its parks , university , public buildings and what is now the Vienna State Opera . |
| 29 | His tomb is reputed to lie beneath a mosque in what is now the Sharia Nebi Danyal . |
| 30 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |