Example sentences of "what [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What damage had been done ? |
| 2 | The attack was over , but how on earth could Shelley know what damage had been done to the heart muscle ? |
| 3 | One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’ |
| 4 | The eyes must not linger to examine what damage has been caused . |
| 5 | What part of any contraction in the demand for elderly workers has been caused by state action over the setting of pension eligibility terms , and what part has been due to the autonomous decisions of employers , must for the moment remain an open question . |
| 6 | There has already been a switch of emphasis away from sheltered housing for the elderly to other groups in special need , and what money has been available has been targetted to those areas which have not been well served in the past ( peripheral housing estates , remote areas and less attractive small towns ) , or to developments offering very special facilities ( eg sheltered housing for the elderly deaf ) . |
| 7 | Politics in the Balkans always involved small interrelated élites : what communism did was to reinforce this tendency , and not just in the Balkans . |
| 8 | Its 11 November issue appropriately included features on what progress had been made towards war in space , following this with the other end of technology — all the facts on animal power — which proved that running horse transport could be cheaper than vans or lorries , though not mentioning that animal exhausts can be put to good use as well . |
| 9 | One afternoon in March when a north-westerly was sending catspaws across the estuary , Harry and Sam took their wives down to see what progress had been made . |
| 10 | He found it difficult to see what progress had been made since his time . |
| 11 | NEXT Monday ministers will spend the day with leaders of Britain 's new Engineering Council , asking what progress has been made in the reorganisation of Britain 's engineering profession . |
| 12 | Neither side will say what progress has been made . |
| 13 | It takes as its baseline the previous attainment of the pupil and indicates what progress has been subsequently made . |
| 14 | Table 2 shows for Lothian how the target breaks down by age group and what progress has been made to date . |
| 15 | Does the assessment and the way that results are reported accurately reflect what progress has been made ? |
| 16 | ‘ What progress has been made ? ’ |
| 17 | Given that we need to ensure that we should have as a priority the conservation of resources and energy efficiency , whatever the amount of reserves of oil and gas , what progress has been made by the Department and the Treasury in discussions with the European Community on the value added tax harmonisation talks with a view to the introduction of a lower level of VAT for environmentally friendly technologies which conserve resources ? |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made by his Department to prevent bullying in the services ; and how much money has been spent in dealing with this matter since June 1988 . |
| 19 | To ask the Lord President of the Council what progress has been made to improve catering facilities for Members ' parties visiting the Palace of Westminster . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what progress has been made in providing Rathlin island with mains electricity . |
| 21 | What progress has been made in bringing those roads up to condition ? |
| 22 | Finally , I should like to ask the Secretary of State what progress has been made in an area where I believe it would be sensible to take action . |
| 23 | Will the Minister tell us what progress has been made on the procurement of air-to-air missiles for the aircraft ? |
| 24 | And he said anyway according to mu dad 's suspicions , and from what mum 's been earwigging , erm that 's why he left her . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment has been made of the adverse effect on maintaining and upgrading hospitals of the amount being spent in preparing hospital trusts . |
| 26 | The result has been the stimulation of the perfectly natural reaction for those who rely on the priesthood for guidance in these matters , to become suspicious of the integrity of that hierarchy and , as more enlightened thinking proves to be less of a sin than is often implied , lose what faith had been generated . |
| 27 | Physics is interested only in those abstracted features of the world which its theories specify : one way of describing what physics does is " go beneath " how the world appears to us to uncover the " real " physical principles and processes which produce the ordered universe . |
| 28 | As the case of Italy indicates , even if there had been , researchers would have had to examine the activity of the local state very closely to establish what action had been taken upon the directive . |
| 29 | The only movement in UK law towards this concept is that companies with 250 or more employees are obliged to state in their directors ' report what action has been taken during the year on employee consultation and participation . |
| 30 | Will the hon. Gentleman say what action has been taken to explain why the missing material was left in the bags sent to Wandsworth prison ? |