Example sentences of "what is [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
| 2 | Moodie had succeeded over Ulster 's short circuits at Kirkistown and Bishopscourt but , despite four years of tryi West , he had never been able to crack what is arguably Ulster 's toughest race . |
| 3 | The spectacle of inner city regeneration offers a powerful medium for a political commitment to a strategy based on what is superficially market led growth . |
| 4 | Onyeanusi 's study involved an assessment of the impact of vehicle tyres on off-road tracks in a specific area of what is predominantly grassland savanna . |
| 5 | An RAF institution has quietly slipped into what is surely oblivion . |
| 6 | Sparc chip set house Nimbus Technologies Inc last week was getting set to acknowledge what is already street gossip : that Cypress Semiconductor Corp , or rather its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , got Nimbus off the ground with an initial ‘ joint development ’ investment round about $1.5m . |
| 7 | Action research has come about as a result of this common situation and what it tries to do is to evaluate what is already practice . |
| 8 | First the unit must be washed ( the instructions say only the electrode but the cap is full of what is presumably crystals of the test solution used at the factory ) then calibrated using the buffer tablets supplied . |
| 9 | Apart from the battle of Qadesiyah in AD 637 during the original advance of Islam , so frequently invoked by Iraq as a source of inspiration in the more recent conflict with Iran , Persians and the inhabitants of what is today Iraq have been making forays into one another 's territory for centuries . |
| 10 | Dr Khaled al-Izzi , in a sturdy defence of the Iraqi position on the Shatt al-Arab dispute published in 1981 , cites episodes of occupation of Ottoman territory in what is today Iraq in the sixteenth century and the signature of a peace treaty at Zohab in 1639 . |
| 11 | Over the past few years the media across Europe have devoted increasing attention to what is often sen as an upsurge of political activity by ordinary citizens . |
| 12 | Among the mass of contradictory claims that have come out of the discovery , Climber has tried to piece together what is known and what is purely speculation in a mystery that is unlikely ever to be solved . |
| 13 | are happy with the numbers standing on the Kop for a big derby game , why should UEFA ride roughshod over them and knock an astonishing 6,000 off the gate for what is possibly Liverpool 's most important match of the season . |
| 14 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 15 | If you 're stuck on what is currently shareware 's most popular game get this disk and you will soon be on your way . |
| 16 | a notorious slum or ‘ rookery ’ in west London , comprising the area of Seven Dials and what is now New Oxford Street . |
| 17 | They spent much of the winter , from Palm Sunday until late August , in the centre of a chilly and miserable bay at what is now Puerto San Julián — a winter made doubly wretched by an appalling mutiny and the consequent executions and maroonings that Magellan ordered ; by the stranding and wrecking of the Santiago , which the Captain-General had sent on a sounding expedition ; and by the realization of the dreadful damage done to the remaining ships by the constant chomping and feasting of those plank-gourmets of the seas , the teredo worms . |
| 18 | On 5 February A.D. 62 a severe earthquake shook the area round what is now Naples , on the west coast of Italy . |
| 19 | I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home . |
| 20 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
| 21 | The Roman dioceses of Gaul and the Seven Provinces , which were to constitute most of the Frankish kingdom , essentially covered what is now France , Belgium , Germany west of the Rhine , and most of Switzerland . |
| 22 | An employee may complain , under what is now s 149 of the 1992 Act , to an industrial tribunal if these provisions are infringed , and the tribunal can , among other things , award the employee monetary compensation . |
| 23 | This is a developing area of the law , since there are other cases in the pipeline awaiting the EAT 's decision on the effect of what is now s 146 of the 1992 Act . |
| 24 | The bid by what is now Braintree District Commercial Services , an organisation set up to comply with Government rules over competitive tendering for council jobs , is for £246,285.27 . |
| 25 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |
| 26 | Mrs Markus was born Erika Scharfstein on June 27 , 1910 , in what is now Romania , and spent most of her early life in Vienna . |
| 27 | Lacking statistics , ‘ we seldom if ever discussed growth , ’ but concentrated on what is now microeconomics . |
| 28 | In 1920 , what is now North Shields , consisted of the banksides , the bank tops , the industrial villages of Percy Main and East Howden , and the villages of Chirton and Preston . |
| 29 | There was also a single large northern continent called Laurasia consisting of what is now North America , Greenland , Europe and Asia ( apart from India ) . |
| 30 | Thus Mendel 's paper on the inherited characteristics of peas , published in an obscure journal in what is now part of Czechoslovakia , was uncited for many years , but the ideas contained within it are now an integral part of the genetics paradigm . |