Example sentences of "what [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders what became of the dispossessed . |
| 2 | You may well ask what became of the Zionist terrorists after the British left ? |
| 3 | An important part of the research process is to search through the literature and find what ideas similar to your own have been investigated in the past , and then by learning what became of the earlier ideas you can avoid their mistakes and build on the successes . |
| 4 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 5 | You should always ask the questions , and that is another way that people will understand that you know what goes on the other side of the microphone . |
| 6 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 7 | It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers . |
| 8 | It is about people coming to identify and express personal feelings , wishes and circumstances and coming to understand what contributes to the positive and negative of their existence . |
| 9 | I shall now go some of the way up this valley , as far as the Col du Tourmalet at the end of it — what lies on the far side of the col must wait for the section of this chapter on the valley of the Adour . |
| 10 | We — that is you and 1 — as well as the Yek , ought to know what lies beyond the Great Sea . |
| 11 | What lies within the published guidelines is very relevant to the actions taken by Orkney Islands Social Work Department . |
| 12 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 13 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 14 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 15 | What lies behind the different views of the books is , of course , social and economic changes . |
| 16 | For the rest of the book I turn to the second and in particular to what lies behind the mounting opposition to the Treaty , away from the fug and the isolation of Cabinet rooms , palaces and Chancelleries . |
| 17 | Here we talk to former teachers , old friends and relatives in a special TODAY investigation to discover what lies inside the tortured soul of Sinead . |
| 18 | Because of what transpired in the latter part of 1989 , seldom has your insight been so penetrating and accurate , and between now and August is a time of unrivalled opportunities for you to make your mark . |
| 19 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 20 | I hope I do n't add to the confusion of the Borrowdale guidebook editions when I point out that their detailed account of what occurred on the first ascent of Prodigal Sons is in fact what happened on a totally different route named Déj ‘ a Vu . |
| 21 | However , if you now have the determination to become a bigger fish in a bigger pool , then you will take what occurred around the lunar eclipse on August 6th as a signal to put the past behind you and devote all your energy to plants designed to give you a greater degree of freedom . |
| 22 | This , Gilroy argues , overlooks the multiracial character of what occurred in the 1981 and 1985 youth riots , and relegates British urban street crime to an Afro-Caribbean deviation . |
| 23 | I have to remember we spent her first ten years together and hope that this will be what matters in the long run . |
| 24 | What matters from the functional point of view is analogy : carrying out comparable functions . |
| 25 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
| 26 | For instance , you can knock out a Quick Report simply by filling in the blanks on what looks like the normal data entry form . |
| 27 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 28 | What on earth was she doing , she wondered , climbing the steps of a palazzo , as behind her what seemed like the entire English colony of ex-pats in the province of Siena came straggling . |
| 29 | He did , for what seemed like the next million hours . |
| 30 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |