Example sentences of "what [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What got enough light in there . |
| 2 | Yeah , I 'll tell you what got more sausage . |
| 3 | Over those years Eliot would visit him during what became regular trips to the United States ; he also wrote a number of letters to those in authority in order to ease his conditions : he talks about the time Pound should be allowed to spend alone , for example , and the condition of the buildings in which he was confined . |
| 4 | There there was the message of Marcus Garvey , whose writings and activities before and after the First World War laid the foundations of what became Black Power . |
| 5 | He finished up as Programme controller and deputy managing director of ATV , laying the foundations for much of what became Central Television . |
| 6 | In Britain , Huxley introduced this kind of physiology from France and Germany from the 1850s ; and in the last quarter of the century his pupils ( trained in South Kensington , in what became Imperial College ) filled chairs in British universities , where the field was now becoming separated from medicine . |
| 7 | Sociologists , social psychologists , anthropologists and economists began to use and develop variable analysis in a series of what became classic studies . |
| 8 | Within minutes of the prime ministers sitting down at 4.15 p.m. , we had constructed the wording of what became Early Day Motion number 174 , and which read as follows : |
| 9 | The British , in late 1940 , began to integrate command for all three services deployed in what became Combined Operations . |
| 10 | The Christian Social Union ( CSU , part of Kohl 's coalition government ) and organizations specifically representing the 12,000,000 Germans who fled what became Polish territory after 1945 , had called for the treaty to include a " right of return " , and for German " topographical designations " to have official status in the traditional settlement areas of the German minority in Poland . |
| 11 | What the purpose of a particular statute is will normally be determined by the courts as a matter of construction , and it is interesting what influences judicial thinking in this respect . |
| 12 | The year the shop opened she hired a new dress designer , Jacqui Smale , fresh from the Royal College of Art , and told her how sensible she thought it was to wear uniform because this removed the agonies of planning what to wear each day as well as the decisions about accessories to go with the clothes . |
| 13 | What turns political policies into vote-winners is their ability to affect the lives of large numbers of people in an important way . |
| 14 | What turns national liberation into a stable nationalism is the accomplishment of State power . |
| 15 | What led this school to believe that labour availability was less important than other factors in both the 1960s and the early '70s ? |
| 16 | The phrasing of Japanese , Indian and Chinese music really fascinated me , so I spent a lot of time studying what made that music work . |
| 17 | That is really what made Danish ballet such a discovery for the rest of Europe 30 years ago . |
| 18 | Nenna 's character was faulty , but she had the instinct to see what made other people unhappy , and this instinct had only failed her once , in the case of her own husband . |
| 19 | She needed to earn her place as part of this team , and she realised , with a pounding heart , that she was curious to find out what made this man tick . |
| 20 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |
| 21 | What made this work possible at this particular time was the wind of change that was sweeping across Europe . |
| 22 | What made this situation peculiarly problematic for primary teachers was their sense that the firm stance on good practice taken by the Authority 's advisory staff was inseparable from the part they played both in the formal processes of promotion and appointment and in the many informal and subtle ways whereby individual teachers were encouraged and advanced — or discouraged and held back . |
| 23 | What made this challenge unusual and original , however , is first the distance , of nearly seven miles ; most such events are inner-city only . |
| 24 | What made this workshop so unusual and , indeed ( in some people 's eyes ) , controversial , is that the 19 players who were invited to attend , were indeed , all black . |
| 25 | What made this trade especially useful was the small extent to which it depended on re-exports and the very great extent to which it brought markets for English manufacturers , especially in woollen and worsted textiles of the lighter and cheaper kinds . |
| 26 | In the absence of any obvious threat to their collective security , it is impossible to avoid asking what made this step so necessary . |
| 27 | — O what made fatuous sunbeams toil |
| 28 | — O what made fatuous sunbeams toil |
| 29 | ‘ — O what made fatuous sunbeams toil ’ . |
| 30 | O , what made fatuous sunbeams toil |