Example sentences of "what [adj] [noun pl] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What specific lessons have been learnt which could result in a reduction of air pollution ? |
| 2 | Intense artillery and mortar bombardments claimed 14 lives in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek in what Croatian officials said was the heaviest onslaught by Serbian forces since a ceasefire accord was signed last January . |
| 3 | This confusion about what social workers do is important . |
| 4 | What different approaches have been developed to teach this important skill ? |
| 5 | What explanatory surveys require are cases which possess characteristics relevant to the problem of the research . |
| 6 | What little sneaks do is they hang about near the nest . |
| 7 | What these sewers carried was not sanitary ordure — that continued to be collected or even — illegally — dumped in cesspits : for the cost of separating out the effluent so frightened the Municipal Council of the city that even by 1870 nothing much had been done . |
| 8 | What these answers demonstrate is that the verb may be part of either Theme or Rheme proper . |
| 9 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
| 10 | ‘ It was all about finding how far people can go and what these crews achieved was amazing . |
| 11 | What these cities shared was fast growth and great prosperity in the second half of the nineteenth century , leading to extremes of poverty and wealth and the establishment of a large number of hospitals , either as a result of private philanthropy or of government intervention . |
| 12 | Trelawny Of The Wells boasts Michael Hordern , Sarah Brightman , Helena Bonham Carter and Jason Connery , but what these glitterati produce is dullness itself . |
| 13 | Alan Wilson examines the core of the broadcasters ' unease Changing channels ‘ What these figures mean is that less than one third of the Scottish licence fees was spent north of the Border , while the comparable figure for England was over 90 per cent' |
| 14 | ‘ What these figures mean is that less than one third of the Scottish licence fees were spent here that year , while the comparable figure for England was over 90 per cent , ’ said one disgruntled producer . |
| 15 | What these figures illustrate is the underlying explanatory and predictive thesis of the Marxist account of power and change . |
| 16 | What these filmmakers miss is the level of emotional intensity that both the realist filmmakers , whom the critics approved of , and those of a more melodramatic or fantastic disposition , whom they did n't , seem able to conjure , for almost the first time , in the films they produced during the war . |
| 17 | What these scholars did was to place their own ( negative ) evaluations of [ h ] -loss on to the speech communities of earlier centuries in which evaluations of this phenomenon were not necessarily the same . |
| 18 | His case had rested in part on forged documents , though what these documents contained was not without authority , and the pope 's arguments concerned prescription or the power conferred by ancient right . |
| 19 | What these children face is a kind of colonial experience which they are far too young to fight against . |
| 20 | What these anomalies mean is that within one and the same constituency the price paid in first-preference votes for the election of a TD varies greatly . |
| 21 | What these examples illustrate is an attempt by black sportsmen to convey an impression of themselves as cool : they like people to believe they are always relaxed and unflustered . |
| 22 | What the results from these single channel techniques demonstrate , that is the patch clamp or the bilayer techniques , what these results demonstrate is that the factors enhancing macroscopic channel currents invariably act at the level of gating . |
| 23 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 24 | What many islanders claim is less poetic , but more to the point . |
| 25 | John Major summoned the President of the Eurpean Commission to Downing Street for what many MPs assumed was a carpeting following the breakdown of the EC-United States GATT trade talks and the walkout by Euroagriculture commissioner , Ray MacSharry . |
| 26 | No matter what great advances have been made in the last 12–18 months , there is still an awful lot of blood being shed in the country . |
| 27 | The information gained from visiting another school can be used in answering questions not just on the technical aspects of microcomputer hardware and software , but its actual use — how it links with the information skills programme ; what curricular areas have been involved in other schools ; will the microcomputer cause any problems in terms of security or pupil discipline ? ; will the school librarian be involved in training teachers in the use of the microcomputer for information handling ? |
| 28 | ‘ What those ladies said is n't evidence , ’ said Ivy trenchantly , to the delight of Donald , who was fond of the Law . |
| 29 | What small companies need is relevant advice |
| 30 | Precisely what particular forms symbolized is often in doubt . |