Example sentences of "what has [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has affected the recent decline of entertaining more than anything else , of course , has been the change in the position of women . |
| 2 | Jacko ( John Mills ) , Kathie 's father , and a committed trade unionist , is asked to give his opinion on what has become a contentious issue within the factory . |
| 3 | In what has become a classic description of this unpleasant and unstable world , in which peaceful planning and long-term effort is pointless , Hobbes says that : |
| 4 | Byrne , the Republic of Ireland striker who considered retiring from the game less than two years ago because his career had stagnated in France , maintained his record of scoring in every round of what has become a romantic Wearside success story . |
| 5 | The principle was one thing , the passenger quite another element in the rapid growth of what has become an international craze . |
| 6 | ‘ The attack upon local education authority inspectorates and advisory services is yet one more example of what has become an obsessive vendetta against local government in all its manifestations . |
| 7 | Interest in what has become an indispensable means of communicating in the 1990s was not sparked until early this century when a modernised version of Bain 's brainchild was used to send newspaper photographs . |
| 8 | As far as the reference to the ‘ customary ’ tuning of the 6-string bass , Gibson was referring to what has become the modern standard amongst contemporary players : that is , opting for the low B while keeping the fourths tuning intact across the other five strings . |
| 9 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 10 | What has dumbfounded the British troops is the antagonism of the Croatian forces to their presence . |
| 11 | That is what has made the Tory policy of selling off council houses at prices advantageous to the tenants a much more electorally significant event than any of the plans for wider share ownership promoted or floated by Tory , Liberal Democrat or Labour politicians . |
| 12 | My best man , Alan , has made everything go smoothly , and made his contribution to what has seemed the perfect day . |
| 13 | However , what has changed a great deal is the public attitude to homosexuality . |