Example sentences of "[adv] what [vb -s] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suddenly what seems to be at stake is the Britishness of being Britain' |
| 2 | Suddenly what seems to be at stake is not economic and material wellbeing , but the Britishness of being Britain … |
| 3 | ‘ Thus what appears to be a serious charge may prove in the end , ’ he wrote , ‘ to be a very harmless , rather exciting good game . ’ |
| 4 | Thus what appears to be a contradictory finding does not , in fact , negate the consistent findings of other studies . |
| 5 | An open question gives great freedom to respondents but we may get just what happens to be uppermost in their minds . |
| 6 | This " nature " is what is really there , not just what appears to be there . |
| 7 | The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 lays out in pretty tough terms exactly what has to be done in terms of assessing risks , appointing health & safety assistants , setting up emergency procedures , providing information and training to employees and so on . |
| 8 | Italian art dealer Marco Datrino who works from the Castello Canavese just outside Turin , has pulled off what seems to be an extraordinary coup . |
| 9 | Both teams won their second successive victory on Saturday , the PGL scraping home by nine shots against the Bowling League of Ireland and the NIBA beating the Provincials by 12 shots to line up what promises to be a cracker at the Ulster Transport Club on Thursday . |
| 10 | MARGARETE Buber-Neumann lived and suffered much in the eye of the storm of history that tore Europe apart , and died just as the world was watching incredulously what seems to be the great schism 's healing . |
| 11 | Many have written on testing prophecy and really what needs to be done is common sense . |
| 12 | Now what remains to be settled is the status of those claims for moral rights that do not enjoy the reflected sanction of the law ( examples of which I have already slighted as rhetoric ) , and those , perhaps more all-absorbing ones , that are thought meritorious enough by some to become laws . |
| 13 | Often what needs to be communicated is not fully conscious . |
| 14 | Well what needs to be cold that 's out there ? |
| 15 | Even what appears to be what Adam Smith called an " offensive " combination — one which " without any provocation … combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labour " — may turn out to have been workers taking advantage of a temporary shift in the labour market to restore previously enjoyed conditions of employment . |
| 16 | We give here what seems to be the simplest approach . |
| 17 | The county council believes that North Yorkshire , the character of it , er is a national asset , but there is a view that because the county is large and relatively sparsely populated , there should be almost what appears to be an open door policy for development . |
| 18 | Ed 's comment — Sometimes what appears to be an unholy mixture of fish can work . |
| 19 | Such a picture of the mind naturally lends itself to a James-type account of the localisation of bodily sensations : if the mind has its ‘ seat ’ in the head , and sensations are in the mind , then what appears to be the directly-kno-wn location of the sensation must really be the indirectly-known location of the source of the sensation . |
| 20 | These were initially in volume ( i.e. real opportunity cost ) terms , but since 1976 management techniques have increasingly been based on cash , i.e. what has to be paid out at current prices . |
| 21 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |