Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] what [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Cubitt who noted that ‘ artistic knowledge and cultured tastes are not now confined to what are sometimes called the upper classes ’ and the German historian , Muthesius , saw that ‘ within Nonconformity , each individual layman 's romanticism has begun to show itself — as seen in the architectural achievements of the Congregationalists ’ . |
| 2 | Conventionally the rules should be confined to what are conceived as the exchange 's affairs . |
| 3 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 , but it seems to me that the court regarded the powers as being capable of legitimate exercise after charge , but only if ( a ) the questions put were limited to those permitted by what are now the concluding words of what is now paragraph 16.5 of Code C , and ( b ) they were preceded by a caution . |
| 4 | The only English team in Scottish football has had a dramatic season , not least because a former chairman best not named for what are darkly known as legal reasons faces charges of stealing over £60,000 from club coffers . |
| 5 | It is very common to find that the combination of the adverbal adjective and its preceding verb can be matched by a single verb , without any change at all in the overall syntactic pattern or in the meaning : 14 ( a ) you should make the string longer you should lengthen the string ( b ) his sister wanted to set the owl free his sister wanted to release the owl or his sister wanted to free the owl ( c ) Liz had knocked her fiancè unconscious Liz had stunned her fiancè ( The same remark can be made of what are plainly close relatives of this construction , namely separable verbs where the second part is an adverb , or " particle " , as with put up ( = accommodate ) , or pull off ( = achieve . ) |
| 6 | Accordingly , he considers that individuals have no procedural rights to participate in what are plainly policy decisions , beyond their right to participate periodically in the election of governments — unless , of course , such rights are specifically conferred on them by some statute . |
| 7 | An analysis of their replies showed clearly that the great majority of them came from what are traditionally considered ‘ middle class ’ occupational groups , and that academics , students , and retired people ( the majority of whom were retired professionals ) accounted for just under half of all visitors . |
| 8 | Within such an approach , objects may not be reducible to the workings of a central hierarchical principle , or be directly related to what are otherwise considered the most important social divisions . |
| 9 | This means that express terms are interpreted according to what are known as the " rules of construction " applied to contracts , and these contractual rules apply when attempts are made to imply terms which are needed to make sense of a contract . |
| 10 | Yeah , hold on what am I , yeah he 's coming up to fifty yeah , forty nine |
| 11 | It allows a relationship between professionals to develop which is unlikely to be disrupted by what are seen as more ephemeral shifts within local electoral politics . |
| 12 | Procedures is sometimes used for what are here called routines and sometimes to indicate all the operator 's information support except software . |
| 13 | Finally , the benefits to be achieved from clarity of roles and greater accountability which accompany the separation of purchasing from provision may be achieved at the cost of much higher transaction costs between what are now separate organisations . |
| 14 | The patient ends up not knowing how to differentiate between what are her own thoughts , and those which have been implanted . |
| 15 | All the appellants seek orders that , because of the Secretary of State 's failure to comply with what are said to be the requirements as I have set them out , the decisions made in relation to each of the appellants as to their respective tariffs should be quashed . |
| 16 | and then they say , Are you going to what are you gon na do now for for next cup ? |
| 17 | Using Egan 's approach to problem management described above , Sally 's case may be used to demonstrate that she will benefit more if she can be helped to focus on what are , in her opinion , the most pressing problems . |
| 18 | The structure of the igfet leads to what are known as surface states . |
| 19 | Legitimacy … does not deal so much with whether activities of government are lawful as whether they accord with what are generally perceived to be or what have for long been held up to be , the fundamental principles of the constitution according to which government is or ought to be conducted . |
| 20 | Since the Stockholm Conference of 1971 first highlighted the issues , the international community has been slow to develop appropriate diplomatic machinery to cope with what are increasingly international environmental problems . |
| 21 | This will recall our discussion in Chapter 2 , where Frey extended needs ( understood as what are ‘ in the interests ’ of something ) to plants and machines . |
| 22 | Care should be taken in ensuring that any funds not immediately required for either the building of a new church or other charitable purposes are invested in what are known as qualifying investments as prescribed in Sch 20 Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 23 | And this is related , for example , to Daly 's scorn for ‘ tokenism ’ — for those women who participate in what are seen as patriarchal institutions . |
| 24 | Calculations of the total numbers are thus very approximate , and mainly based on what are termed ‘ prevalence ’ rates . |
| 25 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 26 | ‘ For example , What are their affiliations is in the grammar , but no other sentences starting with What are their are possible . |
| 27 | The only two sentences starting with What are the are What are the titles of the recent ARPA surnotes and What are the key phrases . |
| 28 | The reason for this , however , is that almost all the references are found in what are intended to be exhaustive lists of ways of acquiring property : heretics , for instance , are debarred from acquiring under any title including legacy and trust ; curial property received in any way ( including legacy and trust ) is taxable . |
| 29 | There we are told that , amidst the collapsing standards of the comprehensive school system , successful reading standards were now only attained in what are described as ‘ traditional ’ schools , whereas ‘ such standards were usual in the 1930s ’ . |
| 30 | So in migrating to architecture we 're very much focused on what are the real world problems and the real challenges that we need to face to deliver effective and workable solutions . |