Example sentences of "what [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Jacko ( John Mills ) , Kathie 's father , and a committed trade unionist , is asked to give his opinion on what has become a contentious issue within the factory . |
2 | In what has become a classic description of this unpleasant and unstable world , in which peaceful planning and long-term effort is pointless , Hobbes says that : |
3 | Byrne , the Republic of Ireland striker who considered retiring from the game less than two years ago because his career had stagnated in France , maintained his record of scoring in every round of what has become a romantic Wearside success story . |
4 | However , what has changed a great deal is the public attitude to homosexuality . |
5 | For example , we can not answer such questions as at what time does a rural Malagasy begin work and at what time does he or she end it ? |
6 | What did provide a fruitful source of conversation at dinner was the table setting . |
7 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |
8 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
9 | The advent of Edna into the household had been a miraculous and totally unexpected blessing , if such a word could be applied to what had become a devastating situation . |
10 | Parliament approved on Sept. 25 , in what had become a regular routine , the extension of the state of emergency for a further month . |
11 | More experimentally-minded workers have since found many soft spots in what had seemed a solid concept . |
12 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
13 | In March , sworn depositions and subpoenaed bank statements revealed the extent to which what had seemed a normal transaction with a Japanese museum had apparently been part of a deliberate swindle into which Feigen 's gallery had been drawn . |
14 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
15 | ’ Apart from that , and a general knowledge of the links and the game , what does make a good St Andrews caddie ? |
16 | However , just to complicate things at a very early level , it 's often observed that agricultural products have what 's called a perverse supply response , in that there 's a negative relationship between prices and output . |
17 | What 's called a Norwegian list , w , quite why the Norwegians are blamed for this I do n't know , er , and the idea with a Norwegian list , is that you have , you put the problem on the left-hand side if you 're right-handed , and then you would brain-storm the solutions for that on the right-hand side . |
18 | Er the other thing of course , when you 're down here we can carry on treating you with what 's called a temporary resident . |
19 | That 's what 's called a relative computer . |
20 | Now because I 'll leave that for a moment right , so one way we may test the structural change , right , is to construct what 's called a dummy variable and a dummy variables in a wide variety of applications they can be used to er get rid of er outlying observations , very very high or very very low observations . |
21 | to flare up with exertion , i er and it has what 's called a diurnal rhythm so the body 's natural rhythms affect it . |
22 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
23 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
24 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
25 | What 's got a wooden door and flies ? |