Example sentences of "what [be] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are possibly the rubbish heaps of Our Mutual Friend loomed even larger in fact than they do in fiction . |
| 2 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 3 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You simply use the zoom levels to give you what is effectively a page preview . |
| 6 | I walk up the track past the fundamentalist missions , way above the coffee plantations , up into what is nominally a wildlife reserve . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , what is evidently a fringe issue for the Scottish Law Society is becoming quite fraught within the profession . |
| 10 | • The Glasgow Sunday Mail reports on what is really a fishkeeping success — trying to turn it into a horror story . |
| 11 | And Malone wants a drastic improvement in what is now a preparation game for next Friday 's Irish Cup semi-final with Cliftonville . |
| 12 | Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi 's army were made . |
| 13 | Alex recalls the old Wilton sheds , now demolished , which stood in the open ground behind what is now the Glenpatrick Mill Shop . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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% . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |