Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] what be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or so ago I motored for the fun of it through Latvia and Estonia , from Riga to what was then still Leningrad , and never thought to encounter such ramshackle roads again . |
| 2 | There was also a smaller walled town two miles to the north called Gausennae at what is now Great Casterton , which acted as an extra garrison . |
| 3 | Markofdistinction ( 3.50 ) , who got even closer to Nashwan when fourth in the 2,000 Guineas , was beaten at Doncaster by what is probably an outstanding horse in Nashwan 's stable companion Gold Seam and should find compensation in the Supreme Stakes . |
| 4 | The growth of empires in Africa and Asia , and of Europe 's trade with the rest of the world , underlay a process which , by its later decades , had begun to bring China , Japan , Persia and even one or two independent or quasi-independent parts of Africa into what was now becoming a world system of diplomatic contacts . |
| 5 | Thus , ‘ mental illness ’ was seen as a label by which genuine human responses to oppressive social conditions were reduced to mental faults , requiring technical ( in this case medical ) solutions ; for a while the ‘ new deviance ’ attempted to incorporate writers as different as R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz from what was temporarily known as ‘ anti-psychiatry ’ . |
| 6 | To see the five early seventeenth-century working miniature firearms from the workshop of Michel Mann of Augsburg and Nuremberg , a rare mechanical calculator made by Johann Schuster in 1822 , a German Royal hunting knife made in Berlin in 1699 by Jaques Munier , and a pair of mid-eighteenth-century four-light candelabra ( attributed to Christian Heinrich Ingermann ) made for Augustus III , Elector of Saxony alongside what are traditionally regarded as archetypal ‘ German ’ and ‘ Austrian ’ works , such as paintings , watercolours and prints by the German Expressionists , does indeed focus the mind on the manifold contributions to the history of art made by artists of the German speaking countries . |
| 7 | The other ‘ new boys ’ are of a much latter epoch and include the Pitts S-1S that the late Neil Williams flew during the World Aerobatic Championships outside Moscow in what was then the USSR . |
| 8 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 9 | The Incas , on the other hand , were a short-lived civilisation of the fifteenth century which created an empire that extended some 3200 km along the Andes from what is now Ecuador to northern Chile . |
| 10 | Surprisingly , there 's a big demand in Britain for what 's traditionally seen as a French delicacy : |
| 11 | It was designed by F. W. Stevens in what is often described as the Gothic Saracenic style . |
| 12 | The hamlet of Castle , a mile South of Lostwithiel , has also been suggested as the site of the palace from which Iseult watched for her Tristan across what were then tidal waters but is now a small stream . |
| 13 | Tectonic plate movement may well have split the Ghat , cutting off Sri Lanka from what is now Travancore . |
| 14 | It appears the Romans had no defensive position on the Welland and the earliest settlement in the area was the Roman camp on the River Gwash at what is now Great Casterton . |
| 15 | Similarly , the London-based Free Belgian administration broadcast from Léopoldville in what was then the Belgian Congo to German-occupied Belgium as the voice of its country 's legitimate government . |
| 16 | The Allies , having revived Poland as part of their anti-German strategy in 1918 , had absolutely no intention of equipping Poland beyond what was strictly necessary to keep Germany occupied and at bay . |
| 17 | The Unix Forum ‘ 92 expo and conference is being held May 26–27 at the Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin in what is now a united Germany . |
| 18 | The Unix Forum ‘ 92 expo and conference is being held May 26–27 at the Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin in what is now a united Germany . |