Example sentences of "what [be] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
| 2 | Onyeanusi 's study involved an assessment of the impact of vehicle tyres on off-road tracks in a specific area of what is predominantly grassland savanna . |
| 3 | Sparc chip set house Nimbus Technologies Inc last week was getting set to acknowledge what is already street gossip : that Cypress Semiconductor Corp , or rather its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , got Nimbus off the ground with an initial ‘ joint development ’ investment round about $1.5m . |
| 4 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
| 5 | The bid by what is now Braintree District Commercial Services , an organisation set up to comply with Government rules over competitive tendering for council jobs , is for £246,285.27 . |
| 6 | His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) . |
| 7 | Akeman Street was the boundary between what is now Tackley Park and Whitehill Farm as early as the year 1004 when King Ethelred gave the small estate of Whitehill to St Frideswide 's monastery at Oxford , and it is still a boundary though the Roman road has vanished from sight . |
| 8 | A canal had been dug by French prisoners of war from what is now Dartmoor Prison , and it passed through a 2-mile-long tunnel to the hillside above the quay . |
| 9 | Some machinery but not the wheel still survives , in the cellar of what is now Malvern House . |
| 10 | This he did , with successful air tests conducted at Hanworth ( London Air Park ) , near what is now Heathrow Airport . |
| 11 | He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture . |
| 12 | Again , what was previously tax relief may be reclassified as government expenditure , as with child tax allowances being replaced by child benefit in 1977 . |
| 13 | After about 100,000 years or so , the needle of the compass would abruptly become unstable and then swing round to face in the opposite direction , so that what was once compass north would become compass south , and vice versa . |
| 14 | While not far away at what was once Bloxham railway station , the steam era is long gone . |
| 15 | The survivors from Tiranoc and what was once Nagarythe start rebuilding their lands . |