Example sentences of "[det] [prep] what be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That left Mr Ishihara with just half of what was already a short book . |
| 2 | There is a nice example of this in what is perhaps the classic private-eye story of them all , Dashiell Hammett 's The Maltese Falcon . |
| 3 | Why restrict programmmes like this to what is still something of a ghetto channel ? |
| 4 | He also pointed out , though somewhat less convincingly , that some geological structures could be traced from one continent to another across what are now wide stretches of ocean . |
| 5 | The members of each set are distinguished one from another by what are fairly well known , the different theories of the nature of probability , all of them consistent with the Probability Calculus . |
| 6 | While Huntington has identified much of what is generally understood as conservative thought there is one aspect , which is of particular importance for our task , which he seems to underemphasize . |
| 7 | Much of what is often praised in broadcasting is there because of a regulatory structure which encourages diversity in programming . |
| 8 | However , so much of what is now being produced lacks these very qualities that it may be more useful to look at successful artists ' work to find an answer to this question . |
| 9 | His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) . |
| 10 | Much of what is now recognised as social work did not exist 30 or 40 years ago , and what did — child care work , work with mentally ill people and some other matters — was practised on a much smaller scale , away from the glare of the media . |
| 11 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
| 12 | The whole idea of this experiment , as I see it , is that everyone in it is going to decide , and carry out , much of what is now decided by experts and provided by big organisations . |
| 13 | Much of what is currently discussed in the media about schools and education in general is based on misinformation and ignorance . |
| 14 | In fact , this hypothesis makes much of what are fairly small differences in the functions of these cell types and , more importantly , ignores the fact that under most normal conditions visual perception operates well within the limits of resolution of the visual system . |
| 15 | Psychologists in the last 20 years have had to rediscover much of what was already known and practised by the 1860s . |
| 16 | Antoine Pecquet , a writer of the early eighteenth century who was also a senior official in the French foreign ministry , is typical of much of what was still being said on the subject . |
| 17 | Much later in the war Stoddard 's factory did have a major fire that destroyed much of what was then called Patrick Bank . |
| 18 | Behind it lies Lake Nasser , which stretches to the borders of Sudan , and beyond , covering all of what was once Egyptian Nubia . |
| 19 | He could have no idea at all of what was really wrong with her ; Sally-Anne was sure of that . |
| 20 | Although , with the elimination of Barbe and Celor from the leadership in August 1931 , and with the increasing prominence given by Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos in 1932 to a popular front approach , the ferocity of sectarian politics abated somewhat between 1931 and 1933 , nevertheless the period from 1927 to 1933 , during which Nizan was initiated into communist party politics , was characterised above all by what is perhaps most accurately described as " sectarian simplicity " . |
| 21 | that that it it is in fact something that ought to be shared more and people ought to benefit more from what 's here ? |
| 22 | At first the allies decided that the Kurds and the Armenians should be given states of their own in what is now eastern Turkey . |
| 23 | Most of what 's most interesting in life goes on below the belt . ’ |
| 24 | Most of what is now visible internally is important historically but would be covered or damaged if the building were to be reconstructed as a modern pastiche within an original veneer . |
| 25 | Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor . |
| 26 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 27 | Most of what is commonly called electronic spectroscopy is concerned with transfer of electrons between valence shell molecular orbitals . |
| 28 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 29 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |