Example sentences of "what have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems as though this is what has kept all those trekkies going for decades . |
| 2 | So this is what has kept him employed through these ‘ misspent ’ years : he has been learning to see , and to live . |
| 3 | What has turned its face that grey colour ? |
| 4 | She took her doctorate in the study of the UFO movement itself , and has worked with several British researchers on what has turned out to be an illuminating project . |
| 5 | Williams has emerged as the unrelenting villain as he patrols what has turned into Fortress Didcot , the race-team HQ , refusing to enlighten the enraged Mansell army on the reasons for their split . |
| 6 | ‘ He is a music influence and that 's what has turned them on . |
| 7 | What has affected the recent decline of entertaining more than anything else , of course , has been the change in the position of women . |
| 8 | Much of the impact of Joni 's major works lies in the delicate balance achieved between what appears worn with age and what has remained intact . |
| 9 | They share the conventional wisdom of the nuclear lobby that what has stopped America 's nuclear industry in its tracks is what the NES calls an ‘ impossibly cumbersome nuclear licensing process ’ — of a kind that pro-nuclear countries like France do not allow . |
| 10 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 11 | What has become a round of South African diplomacy in London began earlier this year when FW de Klerk visited London as President-in-waiting . |
| 12 | The UNHCR has been forced to abandon them , and no one knows what has become of their inhabitants . |
| 13 | What has become apparent is that the hype chorus has become counter-productive by its very volume . |
| 14 | It is precisely because black workers have been kept away from these structures that they are now at the forefront of what has become one of the most political dispute in industrial history . |
| 15 | Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 16 | So what has become of that other bulwark of partition , the unattractiveness of the republic to its Protestant neighbours ? |
| 17 | In what has become a classic description of this unpleasant and unstable world , in which peaceful planning and long-term effort is pointless , Hobbes says that : |
| 18 | Just twelve chapters later we hear them saying to Aaron , ‘ Up , make us gods , who shall go before us ; as for this Moses , the man who brought us up out of Egypt , we do not know what has become of him . ’ |
| 19 | It is instructive to see what has become of the role in the party of Britain 's most exclusive school . |
| 20 | This has opened the way for what has become the largest excavation of a medieval castle yet in Britain . |
| 21 | Nagy says Russia 's new young men are rebelling against what has become their characteristic style : muscular , virile men and pliant , slightly flowery women . |
| 22 | Director Adrian Noble shows us more of what has become his history-play trademark established with his Plantagenets trilogy : a sense of stylish organisation , a feel for the period , and a cinematic sweep of events . |
| 23 | Byrne , the Republic of Ireland striker who considered retiring from the game less than two years ago because his career had stagnated in France , maintained his record of scoring in every round of what has become a romantic Wearside success story . |
| 24 | Chinese leaders are keen to strengthen what has become an increasingly important relationship with Tokyo , and have sought to use the five-day visit to invite Emperor Akihito later in the year . |
| 25 | But the most serious element in Labour 's legacy , from Labour 's point of view , is what has become folk memories in voters ' minds . |
| 26 | Its main aim is to clarify , legalize and standardize what has become de facto social work practice with children and young people over the past decades . |
| 27 | Its demolition in 1962 , still the most wanton act of vandalic savagery in what has become a century of architectural barbarism , signalled conclusively the end of the age of giants and the arrival of the age of pygmies . |
| 28 | Jacko ( John Mills ) , Kathie 's father , and a committed trade unionist , is asked to give his opinion on what has become a contentious issue within the factory . |
| 29 | But what has become evident in the last couple of decades in particular is the scale and pace of agricultural developments which have , and continue to , reduce both the nature conservation and landscape values of many of our upland areas . |
| 30 | The results of these and other experiments fit in well with the predictions of what has become known as the standard electroweak model . |