Example sentences of "what [verb] [art] [adj] " 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 | Fifteen hundred men worked at one time in what became the largest copper mine in Europe — a vast open-cast quarry hewn out of the hilltop . |
8 | What became the Criminal Justice Act of 1961 was a relatively short statute of forty-five sections and six schedules , with more of a coherent theme than is usually found in comparable legislation . |
9 | All that counts are the records , a rhythmically unusual Tex-Mex fusion of rock'n'roll and older western elements , pioneering what became the standard pop instrumentation of two guitars , bass and drums . |
10 | In 1887 , Kautsky , who was to become the most authoritative exponent of Marxism , gave what became the official account of the economic basis for modern nationalism — the drive to create a unified market for capitalist development . |
11 | After his release he lived in Kent , preaching regularly in Rochester Cathedral and laying the foundations for what became the Quaker community there . |
12 | The dialogue form of what became the Two chief world systems ( 1632 ) was a brilliant response to these restrictions , Galileo probably calculating that it would protect him from censure , even if his impartial discussion pointed to far from impartial conclusions . |
13 | Market economics clearly makes a number of effective criticisms of demand management , and its emphasis on the limited competence of government to promote economic growth provides at least a valuable corrective to what became the orthodox political economy of the post-war period . |
14 | Sexuality thus had an extremely complex and vital symbolic role in what became the dominant ideology in the nineteenth century . |
15 | Only archaeological traces survive of their original civilization , which emerged in what became the unique Aksumite kingdom that lasted until the end of the tenth century AD . |
16 | Courtney 's canoeists with ten Folbots ( see diagram p. 25 ) were the first of what became the Special Boat Section , formed after their leader had given a practical demonstration of the canoe 's military potential , a potential doubted by even the adventurous characters in Combined Operations headquarters until Courtney paddled out one summer night in 1940 to a carrier ship moored in the Clyde . |
17 | In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex-Hibernian midfield player John Collins . |
18 | In 1909 Cumming was appointed head of what became the foreign section of the Secret Service Bureau ( the forerunner of the Secret Intelligence Service , better known as SIS or MI6 ) . |
19 | The only route to more empirically grounded theories , according to what became the Lazarsfeldian programme of social research , was to develop suitably confirmed empirical generalisations across a range of studies and problem areas , and this would require the effective translation of concepts into empirical indicators ; translate , that is , concepts into the publicly observable . |
20 | The house was the underground headquarters of what became the military wing of the ANC , Umkhonto we Sizwe , Spear of the Nation . |
21 | Not surprisingly the impetus for what became the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches ( normally called the National Free Church Council ) came from a Congregationalist , J. Guinness Rogers . |
22 | He caught a cold on his way to Tangiers which affected his left lung , but this was merely the prelude to what became an unfortunate trip . |
23 | What influences the young child is not so much what is said or meant by the adult 's question . |
24 | What cemented the temporary alliance between feminists , like Josephine Butler , and moral repressionists , such as Alfred Dyer , was a rejection of the double standard that lay behind the speeches and pressure of most of their parliamentary opponents . |
25 | Thus , although the HeI stars obviate the need for a black hole to account for the energetics of the galactic nucleus , the questions remain , what powers the enigmatic source Sgr A and does the latter mark the presence of a black hole ? |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | What made the pre-1960 period distinctive , however , was the almost complete reliance on this one objective . |
29 | But what made the round most memorable was my caddie . |
30 | What made the annual gathering even worse was we always had to listen to her recite the twenty-third psalm , standing up there on the stage in her white dress , white socks , black shoes . |