Example sentences of "what [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what has become standard concern to make reparation to the Church in Russia , the authorities involved failed to think of the now homeless books . |
| 2 | Do n't you dare I 'm in charge of this interview and erm and erm and erm what 's caused this and why discussion what has caused this change to try and find out and put him off Horrible feeling you see two people shouting at each other two people shouting at each other get the impression that the other party is actually doing an impression of a goldfish and going like that . |
| 3 | What has caused this terror of female flesh ? |
| 4 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 5 | In very general terms , what has characterized recent tendencies in the theoretical study and the practical teaching of language has been a distrust of authority and of the rules and conventions through which it is exercised . |
| 6 | And what has brought increased affluence ? |
| 7 | What has attracted great attention recently are moves towards an internal market in the NHS , which would allow health authorities to buy and sell services to and from one another . |
| 8 | In the case of the ‘ ordinary ’ person it may just be pleasant to record what has happened each day so that one can at some time in the future spend a nostalgic hour looking back on times past . |
| 9 | ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . |
| 10 | It seems his effort , which is what has taken two weeks ’ — he glanced at Jim Donaldson as he spoke — ‘ to portray himself as the guy trying to help Zack , and all the rest of us here and there as the bad guys making problems , has worked . |
| 11 | It 's amazing what gets published these days ! |
| 12 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 13 | What had made this miracle possible , in Lugard 's view , was Indirect Rule , which , through its generosity of spirit towards the conquered , had transformed militant antagonism into grateful appreciation . |
| 14 | For advanced economies , substantial changes had occurred over the latter half of the 1960s because of loss of comparative advantage in what had become basic technologies which could be mastered by low-income countries , together with changes in the nature of world demand and direct and indirect forms of trade barriers erected to protect domestic industry . |
| 15 | What had brought this change about she hardly knew , but whatever the cause she did not regret the consequence . |
| 16 | Pearce 's words when the six policemen had vanished had reminded him about Jimmy Devlin and his bizarre story of what had happened two years ago . |
| 17 | Ironically , in view of what had happened fifty years earlier , it was now the School 's success which precipitated the next crisis . |
| 18 | The police traced Humphrey 's moves back to the Hippodrome and interviewed both Mclean and Lopez about what had happened that night . |
| 19 | About what had happened that night . |
| 20 | Dancing with Tom , Alice nearly told him what had happened that day . |
| 21 | He went out into the darkness to think over what had happened that afternoon . |
| 22 | Sam Somerville and Duncan McCrea explained at length what had happened that morning , how it had happened and why they had not foreseen it . |
| 23 | But when he heard what had happened that morning his face darkened and he turned angrily on Sam . |
| 24 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 25 | He said he 'd come to ask me if I would be prepared to explain to you what had happened five years ago . |
| 26 | Incredibly , he had taken up with those student thugs , and they had taken him out drinking until they were all blind drunk — ‘ So drunk , nobody remembered what had happened next day . ’ |
| 27 | But he laid her down on the horsehair sofa , and said Mrs Patten would not be in yet , and there was time ; and time there was , and what had happened last night was repeated , once and then again , until she , flushed and dishevelled , pulled down her dress , and said ‘ She is coming . |
| 28 | This time yesterday I would have said that what had happened last night was a laughable impossibility . |
| 29 | He did n't even know what had happened last night , although he was damned sure something had to make Isabel so nervous of him . |
| 30 | Sometimes Ruth wished she had told Steve what had happened last year , the affair she had allowed to happen among the glitz and excitement of the Seville Expo , the fascinating Majorcan she had met and loved on sight . |