Example sentences of "[verb] what [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But California has what is probably the highest suicide rate in the world . |
| 2 | This curious animal has what was probably a gut and a set of tubules arising from it ; below this are curious pointed structures . |
| 3 | There are some pointers to this being an accurate judgement , although the period for which wool and corn prices have been studied in detail does not go further back than 1490 , and therefore does not include what are probably the most serious years of enclosure ( 58 , p.183 ) . |
| 4 | Pointing to the easy pickings and careless pleasures of newspaper sellers , flower sellers , barrel-organ boys and other youthful street traders , a government report of 1910 provided what was perhaps the most extravagant version of these common Edwardian fears : |
| 5 | This general description of the countryside oversimplifies what is really a very complicated pattern of soils and climate . |
| 6 | One , Levers Water Level , was put in to try what was probably the South Vein , with a branch taken off to try other lodes . |
| 7 | At the same school I also recognised the importance of freedom of choice , when I approached what was then the equivalent of O-levels . |
| 8 | The five lines above the signature , which appear on the facsimile of the whole page ( p. 58 ) , have defied attempts to decipher them , but Unver , beneath the facsimile on p. 50 , adds what is apparently a summary of these lines : that is , " Above is a note of Molla Yegan 's recommending this person [ presumably Molla Gurani ] as Fatih 's Hoca . " |
| 9 | In September 1968 the executive sanitary officer in his annual report for 1967 said that over one thousand houses were occupied by more than one family and in several cases seven or eight families occupied what was originally a single dwelling . |
| 10 | Severn Mill occupied what was possibly an ancient site , recorded as Garne Mill during the 13th century , when the Abbot of Flaxley granted it to Henry of Bath . |
| 11 | He also composed more formal poems , including an epithalamium on the marriage of king Sigibert and the Visigothic princess Brunhild as well as panegyrics and poems for the courts of Charibert and Chilperic I. These public poems provide what is perhaps the best evidence for the ideology of the Merovingian court in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 12 | His whimsical friend , Aubrey , was also strongly against corporal punishment , although he allowed the use of thumbscrews as a last resort ! 18 Indeed , Locke 's book encapsulates what was clearly a new and growing attitude towards child-rearing and education which was to improve the lot of the child in the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | These are two ways of expressing what is now a widely accepted notion . |
| 14 | The decade ended with Standards for school media programs , published jointly by the American Library Association and the National Education Association in 1969 , embodying what was undoubtedly the most advanced and breathtaking model of the role of the school library media centre that had ever received official imprimatur . |
| 15 | Similarly he rejected what was admittedly a bizarre offer to film " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " — although it might have had its moments . |
| 16 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 17 | The scientists , recently returned from a visit to the region , detailed how irrigation and agricultural policies — in particular , the Soviet cotton industry — are continuing to destroy what was once the fourth largest area of fresh water in the world . |
| 18 | Yes , in intra-industry trade , alright , which is different from inter-industry trade , where we 're trading food er , food for manufactures , intra-industry trade is where we simultaneously import and export what is essentially the same good . |
| 19 | But then the civil war of the first years of the new century caused what was virtually the collapse of the French army , a collapse confirmed by the defeat at Agincourt at the hands of English men-at-arms and archers . |
| 20 | Chassis details follow the broad principles laid down by the Turbo R , with three-stage electronically controlled dampers serving what is basically a MacPherson strut front and semi-trailing arm rear suspension geometry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If the cast will just relax and let their characters speak , it can only improve what is already a highly enjoyable , if somewhat uneven , production . |
| 23 | There will be a special CD to accompany every single release from ‘ Out Of Time ’ , each containing three live songs , forming what is basically a live album . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His rather ‘ cool ’ , laissez-faire approach to the opening pages of the second movement , however , mars what is otherwise an exceptionally fine performance . |
| 26 | They further suggest that regional planning would limit any unconstrained growth arising from operating what is essentially a reimbursement system . |
| 27 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 28 | But Robert Lamont , convener of the union 's legal and commercial committee , did give what was there a traditional half-a-loaf welcome yesterday . |
| 29 | People with new money spread out into the newly-built suburbs where the houses , like the cars , had got longer and lower and were dignified with the name ‘ ranch-style ’ as though there were unspoilt acres in which to roam outside , rather than the swallowing of land in highways , parkways , expressways and cloverleaf intersections to enable suburban man to reach what was once a rural neighbourhood . |
| 30 | According to senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank of Scotland , while this would mean formalising what is already a de-facto two-tier market , it is unlikely to find many objectors among the ranks of private investors . |