Example sentences of "what [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 2 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 3 | Inevitably , it had been parodied in the Eye as Men of the Past , awakening in Branson the first stirrings of what became a lasting sensitivity to adverse publicity . |
| 4 | E. John Brown started what became a famous shipyard , now called Govan Shipbuilders , at Clydebank , in Glasgow . |
| 5 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |
| 6 | The turning-point in what became a distinguished career came on 22 February 1897 , when he started work in the drawing office of the Metropolitan Railway Company at Neasden works , where he pursued both mechanics and architecture , being ultimately appointed as assistant to the chief surveyor and architect . |
| 7 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |
| 8 | The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to . |
| 9 | In fairly simple markets , agreements may focus on the price of a standardized product ( including agreement on exactly what constitutes a standard product , e.g. terms and conditions of sale ) , or on production quotas for the participating firms . |
| 10 | The High Court is being asked to define what constitutes a genuine gypsy . |
| 11 | What constitutes a neighbouring word : one that is adjacent , or any word in the same sentence ? |
| 12 | The S&R approach is almost totally computerised today , and relies as much on the keyboards of Kotch 's Herbie and the crafty arrangements of guitarist Lloyd ‘ Gitsie ’ Willis as it does on their own unerring sense of what constitutes a great rhythm . |
| 13 | The notion of what constitutes a lexical unit is also addressed . |
| 14 | I would suggest to you , in short , that erm just as Locke 's labour theory of property is a theory is not a comprehensive theory about what constitutes a legitimate claim to own something but is really a theory about how private property comes to be legitimately created erm so his theory of social contract is not a theory about how we acquire political obligations , it 's a theory about how legitimate civil societies come to be established . |
| 15 | 1.4 The employee 's duty not to disclose or use his employer 's business secrets What constitutes a legitimate business secret has already been discussed earlier . |
| 16 | Views about what constitutes a typical family vary . |
| 17 | As to the duration of the restrictions , what constitutes a reasonable period depends largely on the nature of the business sold . |
| 18 | In determining what constitutes a reasonable prospect it is to be assumed that the prospect given by the facts and other matters known to the creditor at the time he entered into the transaction resulting in the debt was a reasonable prospect ( s 271(4) ) . |
| 19 | Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates . |
| 20 | the lack of professional consensus and theoretical knowledge about development in old age , and consequent lack of clarity about what constitutes a good quality of life for older people ( Hughes , 1990 ) ; |
| 21 | There is implicit in this socialist debate , and in the wider discussion of reform and revolution , a specific conception of what constitutes a major change in the political system . |
| 22 | So , if we are concerned with what constitutes a just allocation of resources , my prescription , at the very least , would call for policies aimed at ensuring , as far as possible , that everyone had an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net welfare of society . |
| 23 | The notion of what constitutes a just wage and a just price has in consequence been a much debated question in the history of the Church . |
| 24 | How does the analyst decide what constitutes a satisfactory unit for analysis ? |
| 25 | It is impossible to lay down hard and fast rules as to what constitutes a realistic improvement period . |
| 26 | A further matter of dispute is what constitutes a single site for the purposes of the 1MW rule . |
| 27 | They have to , in order to be able to decide what constitutes a sensible experiment . |
| 28 | The difficulty comes in identifying what constitutes a valid claim . |
| 29 | What constitutes a valid arrest ? |
| 30 | But what constitutes a free election ? |