Example sentences of "what [be] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds arrive on the cliffs in January and February and stay until June or July , and what are presumably the same birds are recorded right along the coast . |
| 2 | Although des Forges and Harber gave only about 15 winter ( November to February ) records until 1960 , a few birds have wintered regularly since 1964 around Pagham Harbour ; what are probably the same individuals have also been seen quite often around Chichester Harbour . |
| 3 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 , but it seems to me that the court regarded the powers as being capable of legitimate exercise after charge , but only if ( a ) the questions put were limited to those permitted by what are now the concluding words of what is now paragraph 16.5 of Code C , and ( b ) they were preceded by a caution . |
| 4 | What are then the main elements of such a theory present in the work of Bourdieu ? : |
| 5 | The courtyard was surrounded by what were presumably the inner walls of the palace . |
| 6 | That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units . |
| 7 | By 1960 Jean Rychner produced a valuable study of how certain types of variation in the textual transmission of what were essentially the same fabliaux could be explained in terms of their being aimed at specific , and differing , audiences rather than through random mutilation and degeneration . |
| 8 | This wide boulevard forms the impressive ( some would say interminable ) Viale delle Regioni , which winds its way for miles through what were once the Milanese suburbs , and which today form an area close to the heart of metropolitan Milan . |
| 9 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 10 | Just as Rachel gave Hollywood an inkling of his class , and Desert Rats reassured them as to his reliability , The Robe showed that he could almost carry what were really the worn-out carcases of a clapped-out era . |
| 11 | In Chapter 7 , however , we do ‘ open the box ’ , by taking bureaucracy as a rival to the state in what is thus the second debate about the level of analysis . |
| 12 | Finally , remember you have what is arguably the finest army in the Known World under your command . |
| 13 | Regarding business secrets , a problem which arises in practice is the necessity in employment cases to make a distinction between what is a business secret and what is simply the general skill of the employee . |
| 14 | The irony of course , is that people involved in what is patently the same activity , are increasingly pulling apart from one another as they pursue their own institutional and professional goals by drawing boundaries around the same very narrow ( possibly non-existent ) patch . |
| 15 | We moved quickly on to what is normally the second lesson , snow plough turns , and then the third when thankfully you can use the rope tow . |
| 16 | What would employees below think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about what is and what is not the correct Chinaman ? ’ |
| 17 | Discounting variant examples of what is fundamentally the same tale , there are at least 127 fabliaux in the medieval French corpus . |
| 18 | You will have access to what is probably the largest choice of homes available . |
| 19 | There is also , in the Peterborough Museum , another scene which includes what is probably the lower part of a similar bench with the forge at the side , a figure facing the bench wears the heavy leather apron , carefully incised with a finely-pointed tool , below is a pilleus on a stick . |
| 20 | And so you carry on , with what is probably the first conversation that person has had for weeks . |
| 21 | Seventy years later the treaty of 1718 between the Emperor Charles VI and the Dutch republic , which fixed the boundaries of their territories in the southern Netherlands , provides what is probably the first example of a frontier being defined not merely in the text of a treaty but also on a map attached to it . |
| 22 | It is not until the turn of the century that what is probably the best guide to Islay was published . |
| 23 | It is not until the turn of the century that what is probably the best guide to Islay was published . |
| 24 | But California has what is probably the highest suicide rate in the world . |
| 25 | In what is probably the boldest attempt yet to change Human behaviour for the sake of the environment , officials in southern California have produced a long-range plan to deal with Los Angeles 's infamous smog . |
| 26 | Bernd and Hilla Becher are back at Sonnabend with another accounting of related industrial architectures ( 9 January — 6 February ) while Edition Julie Sylvester is showing what is probably the biggest photograph you 've ever seen . |
| 27 | In Loch nan Geireann , between Beinn Dhubh Shollais and Crogary Hills , in the north is Eilean an Tighe , where archaeologists discovered the remains of what is probably the oldest pottery workshop in Western Europe . |
| 28 | The subject of what is evidently the principal side of the vase ( fig. 108 ) is much argued over : the Argonauts , the Seven against Thebes , the Underworld ; the morning of Marathon ; but I believe it has now been made nearly sure . |
| 29 | Thus a comparative analysis must be sensitive to an ‘ industry effect ’ even within what is broadly the same industry . |
| 30 | It can break down what is often the false generality of a ‘ whole way of life ’ to discriminate ascriptions to specific classes and other groups . |