Example sentences of "what [be] [verb] [prep] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A secretly-filmed video details what are claimed to be breaches of regulations meant to protect animals . |
| 2 | The stones consist of a pair of burr stones for corn grinding and a set of what are thought to be Peak stones used for animal feed . |
| 3 | He accepts as issues what are reputed to be issues . |
| 4 | Rational techniques were introduced to try to solve what were perceived to be problems at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ Often , what 's perceived to be aggression is simply fear or nervousness , ’ Joanne added , recalling the first dog they rescued . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Technological capability is of great interest to the customer but above all he wants a quality product at what is perceived to be value for money . |
| 9 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 10 | Including that holding , Owners was last night claiming the support of holders of more than 25 per cent of its shares , while Airtours , despite purchases in the market and the assent of what is thought to be Mercury Asset Management 's 15 per cent stake , claimed control of just 22.8 per cent . |
| 11 | Detectives and uniformed officers went to an address in Victor Road on Friday evening and seized a quantity of what is thought to be cannabis resin . |
| 12 | Nevertheless he was suspicious of international competition , especially the Olympic movement , fearing it would turn what was intended to be pleasure into too serious a business . |
| 13 | The third stage ( 1946 ) was to increase the pension to what was intended to be subsistence level , but render it conditional on retirement and make contribution compulsory for virtually all . |
| 14 | Throughout the 1960s there was increasing analysis of and comment on what was seen to be Britain 's flagging economic performance . |
| 15 | Precisely they drew on what was common knowledge ( that is to say what was believed to be knowledge ) in their day . |
| 16 | The three were arrested allegedly in possession of what was believed to be cannabis on December 15 . |
| 17 | The investigators had also come into possession of what was said to be Fhimah 's personal diary , improbable though it must have seemed to them that a trained intelligence agent would keep one or put anything in writing , let alone the incriminating English word ‘ taggs ’ ( sic ) in the middle of an entry in Arabic and then , according to media reports , leave the diary behind for the investigators to find . |
| 18 | P1344 never made it , being forced down in what was thought to be Finland on the night of the 4th/5th . |
| 19 | There was excitement the night before the Sale opened , when what was thought to be Winston Churchill 's autograph was found on the flyleaf of an old maggot-eaten book , which had found its way to Edinburgh , from a North-West frontier War early this century . |
| 20 | I do n't think you will be surprised to learn that that in fact shows a very clear divergence between what was considered to be girls ' training and boys ' training and the most stark statistic was in relation to who was going into government training centres . |
| 21 | One report described observers in Baghdad as surprised that what was expected to be Iran 's final offensive , taking in the Shatt island of Bovarian , began as a frontal assault against earthworks and water barriers east of Basrah where Iraq 's defences were at their most formidable . |