Example sentences of "[vb past] what is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was first given precision by Robert Hooke , a contemporary of Newton , who proposed what is now called Hooke 's law , namely that stress is proportional to strain . |
| 2 | The latest CBI distributive trades survey , published today , underlined what is expected to be confirmed in tomorrow 's retail sales figures for January , namely that there was quite a good bounce-back from the unexpected fall in December . |
| 3 | The introduction of inflationary expectations into the Phillips relationship created what is known as the expectations-augmented Phillips curve and this plays an important role in the monetarist approach to inflation . |
| 4 | At the meeting the VHPB reviewed what is actually happening in different countries against what is recommended . |
| 5 | I shall not enter into a detailed discussion of this Labour government , its programme and effects , but it should be noted that over the years to 1951 , as more and more of the party 's electoral pledges were realised , there occurred what is often interpreted as a ‘ weakening of commitment ’ of both party and people to ‘ socialism ’ , and a progressive exhaustion of the political impetus for social and economic change . |
| 6 | But the most surprising difference was that their axes of preferential response were clearly not lined up with the axes of the on-off directionally selective type , and when Clyde Oyster and I analysed this in more detail we found what is shown in Figure 5 . |
| 7 | Through Ezra I found what is known in these parts as a ‘ room and kitchen ’ flat . |
| 8 | Philip told what is , in fact , an extraordinary tale beginning as the not uncommon ( for those times ) attempt to rescue a poor but talented boy from his circumstances and ending as some sort of love story . |
| 9 | Twenty thousand years ago , at the end of the Pleistocene , the melting of North America 's last great ice sheet engorged what is now the Susquehanna River , which then enlarged the Chesapeake Valley . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a cheer as we lifted what is the country 's highest award in industrial journalism . |
| 11 | New York collector Leonard Lauder paid what is said to have been $25 million for some of the finest remaining works , including Braque 's ‘ Still life with mandoline and metronome ’ ( 1909–10 ) and Gris 's ‘ Portrait of the artist 's mother ’ ( 1912 ) . |
| 12 | King George III ( 1760–1820 ) collected what is now the King 's Library in the British Library , and Queen Mary herself had a library of nearly five thousand volumes by the end of her life . |
| 13 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |
| 14 | Between 1168 and 1174 , Barbarossa spent what is often termed the middle period of his reign in Germany . |
| 15 | In 1757 Mr Murdoch died , John Leacock married his widowed daughter , Mrs Durban , and founded what is now Leacock & Company Lda . |
| 16 | 3.1 In the last chapter , we examined what is , in a certain sense , a side-issue since it dealt mainly with a particular variation of value found within a single one of the constructions open to adjectives in English . |
| 17 | The media believed it knew what to give audiences just as academics believed they knew what is right to teach people and the way to teach them . |
| 18 | That 's good actually because I saw that from a long way off and I thought what is it ? |
| 19 | Paul says in I Corinthians 1.27 that ‘ God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise ’ . |
| 20 | Cecil chose what is generally believed to be safe stock . |
| 21 | In reply , Soviet generals grumbled that Kutuzov 's troops on their return from the Napoleonic wars did not have to pay for forage as they crossed what is now Poland ; the Poles , they said , were showing scant gratitude for their liberation in 1945 . |
| 22 | Their detour to Fort George crossed what is how the main road from Nairn to Inverness , and they arrived some time in the late morning . |
| 23 | So you too would assume quoick transformation we 've got a geometric progression in here that goes off to infinity alright which is equivalent to that , that little thing alright , we 've got three parameters here this one , that one and that one , alright , so we converted what is an infinite stream into a finite stream using this er , quoick transformation . |
| 24 | It is , therefore , with a sense of mounting horror that one listens to Acheson sounding the knell of US policy in China in the letter which accompanied what is usually known as the China White paper , oblivious to the possibility that the bell was tolling for the same policy that was being reborn in Vietnam . |
| 25 | In 1969 Mr Walker performed what is believed to be Teesside 's first successful aortic graft , the replacement of the body 's main blood vessel with a false vessel . |
| 26 | In 1969 , Mr Walker performed what is believed to be Teesside 's first successful aortic graft the replacement of the body 's main blood vessel with a false vessel . |
| 27 | SIR — Lisberger and Sejnowski , and Judge in News and Views , discussed what is known about the cerebellar control of the vestibulo-ocular reflex ( VOR ) . |
| 28 | Shortly before the joint statement was issued , Coopers & Lybrand became what is thought to be only the second US firm to file a countersuit against a former client . |
| 29 | And er then , of course , when I was about eighteen , er I became what is what be what was called as an improver . |
| 30 | A YEAR after the European Community 's central-bank governors produced what is known as the Delors report on economic and monetary union , the European Commission has at last written its own credo on EMU . |