Example sentences of "what [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds arrive on the cliffs in January and February and stay until June or July , and what are presumably the same birds are recorded right along the coast . |
| 2 | Although des Forges and Harber gave only about 15 winter ( November to February ) records until 1960 , a few birds have wintered regularly since 1964 around Pagham Harbour ; what are probably the same individuals have also been seen quite often around Chichester Harbour . |
| 3 | The works he has chosen contain what are probably the two best-known pieces in the entire canon , the chorales ‘ Zion höt die Wächter singen ’ ( ‘ Zion hears the watchmen sing ’ ) from No. 140 , and ‘ Jesu bleibet meine Freude ’ , popularly called ‘ Jesu , joy of man 's desiring ’ from No. 147 . |
| 4 | There are some pointers to this being an accurate judgement , although the period for which wool and corn prices have been studied in detail does not go further back than 1490 , and therefore does not include what are probably the most serious years of enclosure ( 58 , p.183 ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is now an old-fashioned view ; but posterity can judge what is good music-making and what are merely the trends of a particular time . |
| 6 | Well , you do n't need all that , if you 're talking to the public , you 're telling what are basically the facts , and , if asked for your opinion on them , you then decide whether to give your opinion or to say , ‘ Well , no , that 's beyond , that 's beyond my brief . ’ |
| 7 | Yet the applied energy , constant movement of people , heavy loads and handling of what are sometimes the most dangerous substances imaginable make many industrial environments intrinsically dangerous . |
| 8 | Fossil evidence reveals that these giants occupied the woodlands and mountain forests of southern China until the ice ages drove them south into what are now the islands of Sumatra and Borneo . |
| 9 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 , but it seems to me that the court regarded the powers as being capable of legitimate exercise after charge , but only if ( a ) the questions put were limited to those permitted by what are now the concluding words of what is now paragraph 16.5 of Code C , and ( b ) they were preceded by a caution . |
| 10 | What are then the main elements of such a theory present in the work of Bourdieu ? : |
| 11 | Theodor Adorno , on the contrary , has produced what are perhaps the most considered , influential , and lengthy analyses of modernist art ; yet these analyses tend to be formalist , to ignore the realm of popular culture , and to focus rather singularly on the production of cultural forms rather than on the social bases of their reception . |
| 12 | What are possibly the rubbish heaps of Our Mutual Friend loomed even larger in fact than they do in fiction . |
| 13 | Dynamique Yachts , based at Marans in the Vendée , is a brother and sister team of Ian and Chantal Jeanneau , who employ about 60 people building a range of what are possibly the largest glassfibre production yachts in France . |
| 14 | Franco 's concern with internal equilibrium was also reflected in the occupants of what were arguably the two most important cabinet posts . |
| 15 | The courtyard was surrounded by what were presumably the inner walls of the palace . |
| 16 | One of Mozart 's contemporaries summed up what were probably the feelings of many fellow-musicians on hearing the news of his death : it was , of course , a pity that such a great genius was dead , but on the whole it was a good thing for the others . |
| 17 | What were probably the most important characteristics of the era , the social and political attitudes , are not fossilisable at all . |
| 18 | That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units . |
| 19 | You 're in your opinion what do you what were what were generally the motivation behind the girls becoming prostitutes , I mean was it |
| 20 | Harriet showed a keen interest in what were plainly a male leopard 's calling cards , his scent marks on trees and bushes . |
| 21 | This can be seen in figure 7.2 , which shows how manufacturing employment in the 1960s and 1970s grew most dramatically in what were basically the more rural parts of the country . |
| 22 | By 1960 Jean Rychner produced a valuable study of how certain types of variation in the textual transmission of what were essentially the same fabliaux could be explained in terms of their being aimed at specific , and differing , audiences rather than through random mutilation and degeneration . |
| 23 | This wide boulevard forms the impressive ( some would say interminable ) Viale delle Regioni , which winds its way for miles through what were once the Milanese suburbs , and which today form an area close to the heart of metropolitan Milan . |
| 24 | In Manhattan , the famous yellow water-taxis thread their way through the grid of canals to take you directly to the landing-stage of hotels in the luxuriously converted upper storeys of what were once the city 's proudest skyscrapers . |
| 25 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 26 | The transnational capitalist class is a bridge between the nation-state and the global system and the more assiduously it brings transnational practices into what were once the realm of the regional or the national , then the more faithfully it serves the interests of the system . |
| 27 | The deeply moated site of the former manor house marks the edge of the old settlement ; sheep now graze peacefully over the remains of the village and over the ridge and furrow patterns of what were once the communal arable fields . |
| 28 | He was therefore reduced to spending most of his weekends during the session in what were then the fairly cramped quarters of 11 Downing Street and what , then as more recently , was its unrestful and unrefreshing atmosphere . |
| 29 | And he needed to judge what voluntary-aided status meant to a newly combined school in what were then the 1980s . |
| 30 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |