Example sentences of "what [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sociologists , social psychologists , anthropologists and economists began to use and develop variable analysis in a series of what became classic studies . |
| 3 | The British , in late 1940 , began to integrate command for all three services deployed in what became Combined Operations . |
| 4 | What turns political policies into vote-winners is their ability to affect the lives of large numbers of people in an important way . |
| 5 | — O what made fatuous sunbeams toil |
| 6 | — O what made fatuous sunbeams toil |
| 7 | ‘ — O what made fatuous sunbeams toil ’ . |
| 8 | O , what made fatuous sunbeams toil |
| 9 | O what made fatuous sunbeams toil |
| 10 | It would be disingenuous , even for those of us who take another view , to pretend that we do not know what made an intelligent British traditionalist like Enoch Powell call for a halt to mass immigration some 20 years ago , and what made British governments of both parties follow his lead . |
| 11 | The concept of the ‘ vicious circle ’ theory is , of course , underlain by people 's expectations of what constitutes acceptable levels of service provision . |
| 12 | It is from the dominant ideology that standards of acceptable , normal behaviour are defined ; and it is from this ideology that what constitutes social problems and criminal actions are also defined . |
| 13 | Both terms are representations of , but not solutions to , the problem of what constitutes sexual differences . |
| 14 | The situation here is a familiar one in anthropology : the recognition of degrees of commonality of attitude and belief which provides for the variable definition of what constitutes cultural boundaries . |
| 15 | If economics had dominated the opening months of the Hinkley C Inquiry , then ironically this was not what concerned most objectors to the proposal . |
| 16 | What humbles these hills has raised |
| 17 | So I walked to the last bench what seated three pupils , I said , there it is look it 's stuck about three inch . |
| 18 | This effect is presumably what produces crater-strewn fields . |
| 19 | This is what sets off its archaic phase from the oriental arts to which it owes so much ; what drives Greek artists to be always changing , developing , till they find themselves forced to abandon the inherited conventions and create their own , classical , style which becomes the basis of European art . |
| 20 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 21 | And that 's what holds these planets . |
| 22 | What galled local Tories , wrote the Nappy Happy Househusband , was that ‘ Labour 's blueprint for the town centre is proving so popular with shoppers and traders ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ But we have n't a clue about what causes antioxidant differences between raw and cooked food , ’ adds Professor James . |
| 24 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 25 | Next week : what causes dizzy spells |
| 26 | What occasioned these letters is unclear . |
| 27 | To save you what say thirty seconds ? |
| 28 | If we really knew what caused actual cases of electrical breakdown or even simple cracking in plastic articles , we might save much frustration , and economic waste in the way of articles sent back . |
| 29 | Several hours later after flying over what seemed endless tracts of grey-green Siberian tundra we descended over the great expanse of the Lena River . |
| 30 | The big supermarkets , or what seemed big supermarkets then , which disfigured numerous high streets in the 1960s , have now been replaced by a much larger generation of stores . |