Example sentences of "what [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In what represents a text book case of technology transfer , it has been taken up by major operators in the pharmaceutical and general chemical industries such as SmithKline Beecham , Foster Wheeler and Monsanto .
2 After discussing what led a girl to become a prostitute they then set up a series of dramas showing some of the stresses ( including poverty ) a fictitious character had had to face in her early life .
3 Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere .
4 What made a paper ‘ national ’ ?
5 What made a paper ‘ national ’ ?
6 ETA still has some odd ideas about what constitutes a compromise .
7 What constitutes a dwelling for the purposes of the section is further spelled out in section 8 , which provides :
8 ‘ Even if you take the example of the Western , and key Western icons like Clint Eastwood , ’ Wood says , ‘ you can see the films responding to social attitudes in the movement from the early spaghetti westerns to last year 's Unforgiven , where you still have the recognisable Clint Eastwood character , but he 's much more complex , more uncertain about things — about killing , about his motives , the whole notion of what constitutes a hero . ’
9 Gillian Harris looks at what constitutes a success in the eyes of the publishing trade and the book-buying public .
10 While sleep stages are well defined in terms of psychophysiology , what constitutes a dream is not , and the reviewers suggest that an important determinant of the number of NREM " dreams " collected is the predisposition of the experimenter .
11 There is no agreed definition as to what constitutes a knowledge worker .
12 What constitutes a sign in the first order , that of language , is merely a signifier in the second order , that of myth .
13 It needs to be acknowledged that Hoyle takes a very wide view of what constitutes a school 's ‘ organisational character ’ or ‘ deep structure ’ .
14 Section 395 contains a generic definition of what constitutes a charge and a partial definition of what constitutes property .
15 While these groups share the need for the same basic information about what constitutes a Compact , their particular concerns require specific responses addressing their own interests and sensitivities .
16 So far as the definition of what constitutes a breach of the peace is concerned , however , the decision is less satisfactory .
17 4 Breach of the duty The question of what constitutes a breach of the duty of confidentiality falls into two parts .
18 The title of the volume attempts on the one hand to avoid the major archival issue of what constitutes a record , and on the other to broaden the issue of debate from electronic records to include digital information resources generally .
19 And what living or organic forms of data such as continuous updated accounts , or records of employment or social benefit are preserved Not only does their documentation create a problem , but the intellectual definition of what constitutes a record is clearly troublesome .
20 Although a number of security interests are clearly accepted as being recognised by English law , there is some doubt at the penumbra as to what constitutes a security interest and , in particular , as to whether there is a numerus clausus of such interests .
21 The above is a very compressed survey of what constitutes a security interest .
22 As was pointed out earlier , there is some uncertainty as to what constitutes a security interest ; it is submitted that the courts will adopt something along the lines of the definition of Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. set out at the commencement of this chapter .
23 The uncertainties caused by what constitutes a security interest are greatly reduced by the fact , as pointed out above , that it is a numerus clausus of charges that has to be registered so if the charge is not within the list it is not registrable .
24 Intangible movable property includes a charge on the book debts of the company or those assigned to it but the Act contains no definition of what constitutes a book debt .
25 1914 saw the first axiomatic declaration of exactly what constitutes a ring .
26 What constitutes a procession that is commonly or customarily held ?
27 Unlike the debates over the military-industrial complex , the general and wide-ranging nature of the arguments in this chapter reflects disagreement about what the problem is and different approaches to what constitutes a theory .
28 The CPA 1987 is not clear as to what constitutes a holding-out and much will depend upon how the branding is perceived by the reasonable consumer .
29 If there is any standard criterion today of what constitutes a nation with a claim to self-determination , meaning to setting up an independent territorial nation-state , it is ethnic-linguistic , since language is taken , wherever possible , to express and symbolise ethnicity .
30 The court 's decision as to what constitutes a class conceals the policy issues in the decision .
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