Example sentences of "[vb -s] [Wh det] [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 | This general description of the countryside oversimplifies what is really a very complicated pattern of soils and climate . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His rather ‘ cool ’ , laissez-faire approach to the opening pages of the second movement , however , mars what is otherwise an exceptionally fine performance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It recalls what was evidently a memorable expedition — ‘ magnificent combat , great the booty ’ — to Caer Lwytgoed ( Lichfield ) , when there was no escape for ‘ book-holding monks ’ . |
| 9 | It forms what is probably the most serious gap in the BBC 's ( and this nation 's ) sound archives . |
| 10 | Suffice to suggest that the ego -experienced world of the Sonnets , despite the enormous time devoted to the Thou , creates what is essentially a single vision , a self-dedication to the other , which in effect results in an exposure and analysis , not only of the other but also of the self . |
| 11 | Indeed , as the new offence is defined , it creates what is essentially a statutory form of assault . |
| 12 | Hannah Glasse 's book , The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy was first published in 1747 in the 1751 edition appears what is possibly the first English printed recipe for an ice cream . |
| 13 | Noting that we do have many ideas and beliefs , he asks what is perhaps the most basic question of epistemology : ‘ How comes … [ the mind ] to be furnished ? |
| 14 | So a dramatic story like the one told about the Carib is clearly not adequate : it over explains what is really a rather small difference . |
| 15 | This poses what is potentially a serious problem for the DUP : the ‘ Christian principles ’ which are dear to the leaders of the party may cost them popular support . |
| 16 | This is a good way of doing things in that it enables what is effectively a limitless number of different codes to be used , with as little or as much data as desired being attached to each code . |
| 17 | But this overlooks what was surely an equally important result of the experience . |
| 18 | However , the mother does not leave the young cuckoo without instinctive resources , for the newly hatched chick demonstrates what is perhaps the most remarkable of all the numerous and varied adaptations of the cuckoo — the ruthless ejection of the host 's eggs or nestlings from the nest . |
| 19 | The latter makes what is already an internally homogeneous organization even more enclosed and protective . |
| 20 | Arguing for what he believes to be the right way of reading Derrida , Norris makes what is essentially a forensic case . |
| 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 | DataServe for VME , the base software product , provides what is basically a remote procedure call mechanism for VME , and opens up corporate data stored on ICL 's IDMSX mainframe data stores to different environments . |
| 23 | A supermarket now occupies what was once a substantial spinning mill and green fields have replaced the massive four storey plate glass weaving shed that could be seen miles away with the BMK logo illuminated on top . |