Example sentences of "what [vb -s] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has become a round of South African diplomacy in London began earlier this year when FW de Klerk visited London as President-in-waiting . |
| 2 | In what has become a classic description of this unpleasant and unstable world , in which peaceful planning and long-term effort is pointless , Hobbes says that : |
| 3 | Byrne , the Republic of Ireland striker who considered retiring from the game less than two years ago because his career had stagnated in France , maintained his record of scoring in every round of what has become a romantic Wearside success story . |
| 4 | Its demolition in 1962 , still the most wanton act of vandalic savagery in what has become a century of architectural barbarism , signalled conclusively the end of the age of giants and the arrival of the age of pygmies . |
| 5 | Jacko ( John Mills ) , Kathie 's father , and a committed trade unionist , is asked to give his opinion on what has become a contentious issue within the factory . |
| 6 | A life-story can often liven up what has become a very dry and even boring area of social research . |
| 7 | There are other aspects of what has become a multiculturalist or antiracist orthodoxy which can be shown to replicate in many ways the volkish new right sense of the relationship between race , nation and culture — kin blood and ethnic identity . |
| 8 | What has become a matter of concern is that as society becomes more complex , and as the common coin of politics moves away from socialism — and indeed social democracy — it becomes important to preserve and develop those rights which have come to be considered fundamental . |
| 9 | The opening of Aspects of Love , on April 12 at the Prince of Wales theatre , will furnish a mere footnote in what has become a success story of remarkable almost tedious consistency . |
| 10 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 11 | He has provided the only real glitz and glamour in what has seemed a decidedly lacklustre campaign . |
| 12 | However , what has changed a great deal is the public attitude to homosexuality . |
| 13 | ’ Apart from that , and a general knowledge of the links and the game , what does make a good St Andrews caddie ? |
| 14 | What does becoming a tax exile involve ? |
| 15 | And this is what 's called a repayment er type profile . |
| 16 | Er the other thing of course , when you 're down here we can carry on treating you with what 's called a temporary resident . |
| 17 | We 're going to put you on what 's called a starter pack , now start this tomorrow night , okay ? |
| 18 | to flare up with exertion , i er and it has what 's called a diurnal rhythm so the body 's natural rhythms affect it . |
| 19 | we may have to do what 's called a glucose tolerance test . |
| 20 | However , just to complicate things at a very early level , it 's often observed that agricultural products have what 's called a perverse supply response , in that there 's a negative relationship between prices and output . |
| 21 | Now because I 'll leave that for a moment right , so one way we may test the structural change , right , is to construct what 's called a dummy variable and a dummy variables in a wide variety of applications they can be used to er get rid of er outlying observations , very very high or very very low observations . |
| 22 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
| 23 | He sent in a a a er , what what 's called a nomination form . |
| 24 | That 's what 's called a relative computer . |
| 25 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
| 26 | Erm what you apply for if if it goes to court is what 's called a residence order , and what you would probably know as access |
| 27 | What 's called a Norwegian list , w , quite why the Norwegians are blamed for this I do n't know , er , and the idea with a Norwegian list , is that you have , you put the problem on the left-hand side if you 're right-handed , and then you would brain-storm the solutions for that on the right-hand side . |
| 28 | You see I 'm what 's called a district manager . |
| 29 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 30 | What 's got a wooden door and flies ? |