Example sentences of "what [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are seen by the public as the most depraved of men still have profound needs to express their sorrow even when , with the most damaged people , it seems to lie too deep for tears . |
| 2 | Conventionally the rules should be confined to what are conceived as the exchange 's affairs . |
| 3 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |
| 4 | Although such characteristics probably do play some secondary role , we find this interpretation unconvincing and suspect that it stems from a need to make a connection with what are perceived as the relatively more ‘ attractive ’ features of psychosis , rather than with those emphasised in descriptions of schizophrenia , a concept that has taken on almost entirely negative connotations . |
| 5 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 6 | Technical disturbances arising from the interaction between communism and the novel form are consequently in Nizan 's eyes merely the logical outcome of the communist writer 's refusal to acquiesce to what are perceived as the oppressive structures of bourgeois politics , ethics and culture . |
| 7 | Downstairs Scarlet put what are known as the ‘ last touches ’ to her dinner table , reflecting that this was a term an undertaker might employ in the course of his duties . |
| 8 | This means that express terms are interpreted according to what are known as the " rules of construction " applied to contracts , and these contractual rules apply when attempts are made to imply terms which are needed to make sense of a contract . |
| 9 | What are doing with the people you work with then ? |
| 10 | Do you think Mubarak , and some of what are described as the moderate leaders in the region , will survive the war long-term ? |
| 11 | Cos journalists in general , are a of what be described as a lazy breed , but they 've got tremendous demands on their time . |
| 12 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 13 | Whatever the temptation to make films with what Robert Wagner called ‘ a strong sociological punch ’ there was never any danger that the studios would move away from what were regarded as the essentials of a Hollywood film . |
| 14 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |
| 15 | Although some of the former have been reclassified today , it is interesting to see what were listed in the mid-eighteenth century : Rosa canina , spinosissima , villosa , eglanteria , scotica , inermis , hispanica , scandens , sempervirens , virginiana , lutea , punicea , moschata , centifolia , damascena , alba , belgica , provincialis , incarnata , gallica , cinnamomea and muscosa . |
| 16 | I think what were dealing within a programme like this is very much the tip of the iceberg |
| 17 | The I was n't talking about what were included in the calculations , what I was talking about and we may be at cross purposes for that reason is what the policy provides for . |
| 18 | Labour was attempting to control what were known as the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 19 | Scarman was critical of some of the methods employed by police forces , especially the use of special patrol groups in ‘ saturation swamp 81 ’ which involved considerable police presence and the operation of what were known as the ‘ sus laws ’ under which people can be stopped and searched simply on suspicion of misdemeanours . |
| 20 | Some 2,000 people took part on March 8 in what were described as the biggest demonstrations in Tonga in living memory , in protest at a decision to grant citizenship to more than 400 foreigners . |
| 21 | The Collective State Presidency decided on May 9 to give the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) wider powers in Croatia but stopped short of imposing a state of emergency , following what were described as the bloodiest clashes between Croats and Serbs since the Second World War in the self-proclaimed " Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina " , comprising municipalities in Croatia with a majority Serb population . |
| 22 | At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will . |
| 23 | Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ? |
| 24 | Far removed from this Spartan scene reigned the Kaiser , in an environment that to some of his disquieted advisers seemed rapidly to be regaining the splendour of pre-war days in inverse proportion to the hardships what were mounting in the rest of the country . |
| 25 | So what 's cooking on the alternative fuels front ? |
| 26 | You never know what 's hiding round the next corner in Brighton & Hove . |
| 27 | I suppose he was your first lover , and we all know what 's said about a woman and her first lover . |
| 28 | It 's what 's passed around , it 's not what 's said in the music . ’ |
| 29 | The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days . |
| 30 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |