Example sentences of "what [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus there developed what became to be known as the War of the Roses , which raged on and off from 1455 to 1485 . |
| 2 | With that lovely sated feeling inside me , I packed the War Bag and went wearily home , thinking what had happened over in my mind , trying to figure out the whys and wherefores , see what lessons were to be learned , what signs to be read in it all . |
| 3 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 4 | What you need to do is to involve people so they know what has to be done and plan it as far ahead as possible to minimise the impact . |
| 5 | In practical terms an experienced camper is obvious ; there is no need to issue orders , each knows what has to be done and when , without debate . |
| 6 | No mention of what has to be taken out to make the bubbles ‘ natural ’ . |
| 7 | We do not really have to think about what has to be done . |
| 8 | They had made the more usually British mistake of asking ‘ What shall we do ? ’ rather than the standard American approach of ‘ What has to be done to achieve our objectives ? ’ |
| 9 | The suppression of the truth is always a serious matter because what has to be substituted in its place can do even more damage . |
| 10 | Ludens , I 'm in love , I 'm desperate with love , I 'm sunk in it , I 'm ruthless , I feel as fierce as hell about this , I could kill anyone who stands in the way , I must have both of them , and I will , all right it may look like a battlefield , but what has to be done has to be done now and like this . |
| 11 | How far is too far is what has to be decided . |
| 12 | Contained in the DNA are ‘ library rules ’ dictating what has to be done for the instructions for a particular protein to be taken out and ‘ read ’ . |
| 13 | What has to be examined is transferable expertise , both in the practical and the theoretical senses of the term . |
| 14 | ‘ IF you liked Planes , Trains and Automobiles — you 'll love this , ’ says the cover of what has to be the most banal video of the month . |
| 15 | A good application form can be helpful but what has to be considered is whether it stops the candidate from expressing him/herself . |
| 16 | What has to be considered is whether this is really in everyone 's interest . |
| 17 | The domestic empiricist is not concerned with the generalities or principles underlying the cooker or the car ; he or she sees what has to be done to achieve a desired end and that is that . |
| 18 | What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place . |
| 19 | What has to be , has to be . |
| 20 | I accept that this is quite a basic and simplistic way of expressing what has to be a deep and complex theory , but the story of Martin may provide more clues . |
| 21 | It ultimately means helping counsellees to look at their current self-image , and deciding how this can be improved or modified , and what has to be done in order to do so . |
| 22 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 23 | What has to be described is the sort of thing which Europeans took for granted as they went about their daily lives . |
| 24 | The difficulty , then , with all the cases I have discussed — and with a large number of other disputes of a like kind — is that each side argues past the other by assuming the truth of what has to be proved . |
| 25 | The prime minister , Constantine Mitsotakis , almost certainly understands what has to be done . |
| 26 | As Wittgenstein put it : ‘ What has to be accepted , the given , is — so one could say — forms of life . ’ |
| 27 | What has to be recognized , though , is that to a large extent , consumers select the stimuli to which they will respond . |
| 28 | What has to be done , then , to discover whether the advertisement is in line with the strategy , almost inevitably involves a form of cheating . |
| 29 | I take it that these are essential to capitalist society and that what has to be explained are their precise bases , their degree of effectivity and their often largely unintended consequences . |
| 30 | What has to be determined here is — to whom did this order refer ? |