Example sentences of "what has [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has affected the recent decline of entertaining more than anything else , of course , has been the change in the position of women . |
| 2 | This has opened the way for what has become the largest excavation of a medieval castle yet in Britain . |
| 3 | He has become a target for abuse — and powerful sponsors who back the team with around £20-£25million a year want a say in what has become the greatest sports outcry of all time . |
| 4 | Lots of familiar faces and hundreds of old friends are helping to develop what has become the greatest range of sailing holidays under the sun . |
| 5 | As far as the reference to the ‘ customary ’ tuning of the 6-string bass , Gibson was referring to what has become the modern standard amongst contemporary players : that is , opting for the low B while keeping the fourths tuning intact across the other five strings . |
| 6 | Hitch and Baddeley ( 1978 ) have proposed a model of working memory , developed from what has become the basic modal model in psychology , which gives a focus for our discussion ( fig. 11.1 ) . |
| 7 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 8 | What has dumbfounded the British troops is the antagonism of the Croatian forces to their presence . |
| 9 | No one can be quite sure , of course , what has caused the two species to evolve in slightly different ways . |
| 10 | That is what has made the Tory policy of selling off council houses at prices advantageous to the tenants a much more electorally significant event than any of the plans for wider share ownership promoted or floated by Tory , Liberal Democrat or Labour politicians . |
| 11 | You will learn how people lived and died , what has changed and what has stayed the same … the whole heritage of our human race if there ! |
| 12 | But what I did n't realize , and what has proved the gravest shock to me , is that Pietro is the worst of you all . |
| 13 | My best man , Alan , has made everything go smoothly , and made his contribution to what has seemed the perfect day . |