Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [Wh det] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another casualty of Thatcherism has been what Whitehall calls The Great and the Good' , those who often staffed the Royal Commissions and committees of inquiry . |
| 2 | and she 's , all she can do is what Alex 's doing |
| 3 | BIGGER , brighter premises and a service to match are what Halifax Property Services in Finaghy are offering . |
| 4 | That society should have a two-tier membership , with only property-owners possessing full political rights , as C. B. Macpherson has suggested , may or may not have been what Locke believed . |
| 5 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 6 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
| 7 | This may have been what WEU was originally intended to do , but nevertheless its belated reincarnation in the 1980s could not disguise the fact that its role in the process of European integration has been rather marginal . |
| 8 | Now in order to understand this and not to misunderstand terms , we 've got to unders the first thing we have to understand is what Darwin 's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is all about and the problem with this , and in some ways this is analogous to the problem with Freud , and I 'll be talking about this later , is that er when Darwin put forward his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection in eighteen fifty nine it was confused and misunderstood because of the ideas of other people like Herbert Spencer and the so-called Social Darwinists , who coined slogans like , for example , survival of the fittest . |
| 9 | But what I want to echo is what Elean said about respecting each others work and respecting each others visions . |
| 10 | But all she got were what Foucard would have called stereotype Frenchmen , and Denis was not there to laugh . |
| 11 | And that I think is what Locke had in mind to be a full member of a civil society erm you 've got to erm give your express consent for example in the form of an oath of allegiance . |
| 12 | A beautiful face in a photograph , a few misty memories , a haunting perfume tugging at her senses , and Paula had been whatever Harriet wanted her to be . |
| 13 | THERE have been what Jacques Delors calls ‘ European projects ’ before . |