Example sentences of "what [vb -s] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has been the average wind component during the flight ? |
| 2 | I 'm really worried , concerned about the integrity of what has been the finest service in the world . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed one might well argue that unless this generation is able to distinguish between what has been the religious vehicle which has carried people 's love of God , and the love of God itself which needs to be interpreted in new ways , there may be scant hope for the future of religion in the west . |
| 4 | It was the final straw in what has been the worst Christmas of her life . |
| 5 | What counts is the increasing divergence between them ( and , for a Frenchman , France 's continued indecision about which system to pursue ) . |
| 6 | What matters is the moral standing of the man who holds the wires in his hands , like ten thousand million strings . |
| 7 | What matters is the ultimate profit , and if it can be increased by employing some more salesmen so be it , even if the numbers go in the wrong way . |
| 8 | Indeed , the pervasive appeal of the term ‘ bottom line ’ ( profit after all deductions ) is such that it is often used as the ultimate test of success in any aspect of society ; in sport , how well the game is played is irrelevant , what matters is the final score — the bottom line is winning or losing . |
| 9 | The attitude-holder , in expressing the attitude , may not actually be engaged in face-to-face debate , for what matters is the general context of controversy , not the specific interpersonal context . |
| 10 | What matters is the contemporary nature of Saunders ' claims , not in abstraction but , because at a superficial level they , in common with similar work by Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) , Bauman ( 1987 ) , Pahl ( 1984 , 1985 ) and particularly Gorz ( 1982 ) , seem to make a lot of descriptive sense . |
| 11 | What matters is the basic principle behind the exercise . |
| 12 | ( In none of this do the geographical or military details matter , which is why the background has not here been explained : what matters is the constitutional issues raised . ) |
| 13 | What matters is the British people , British jobs and the British future . |
| 14 | The monotony of the individual neurones is irrelevant ; what matters is the infinite variety of their combinations , of their patterns , which will become evident when we look at the nervous system at the right level . |
| 15 | There is no hierarchy of needs — what motivates is the individual perception of what is significant at a given moment . |
| 16 | What remains is the strange intimacy of writer and reader . |