Example sentences of "[verb] what be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As people can not buy what is n't on sale it is often important to tell " the trade " , like retailers , first about a new product or an impending advertising campaign . |
| 2 | But California has what is probably the highest suicide rate in the world . |
| 3 | It is certainly the case that Stirling Council has what is probably one of the most progressive same-sex-sharing tenancy policies in the country . |
| 4 | This curious animal has what was probably a gut and a set of tubules arising from it ; below this are curious pointed structures . |
| 5 | There are some pointers to this being an accurate judgement , although the period for which wool and corn prices have been studied in detail does not go further back than 1490 , and therefore does not include what are probably the most serious years of enclosure ( 58 , p.183 ) . |
| 6 | It was first given precision by Robert Hooke , a contemporary of Newton , who proposed what is now called Hooke 's law , namely that stress is proportional to strain . |
| 7 | By ‘ placing ’ exorcism in such a zone , state institutions ( which Greenblatt equates with Harsnett 's text ) can attempt to contain what is potentially disruptive to the state ; eliminating , in this case , charismatic religious groups as a potential threat to the established Church . |
| 8 | Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility . |
| 9 | Indeed , one important function of research is to indicate what is not relevant , a particularly important contribution in view of commonly held views on matters such as the causes of delinquency-is it ‘ latch-key ’ children or television violence ? — and prevailing stereotypes about single parents and ethnic minorities . |
| 10 | Weekly budgets also do n't describe what is n't bought — a television licence , a holiday , a night out , trips to the swimming baths , roller skates , the Radio Times , a pound of plums . |
| 11 | Pointing to the easy pickings and careless pleasures of newspaper sellers , flower sellers , barrel-organ boys and other youthful street traders , a government report of 1910 provided what was perhaps the most extravagant version of these common Edwardian fears : |
| 12 | This general description of the countryside oversimplifies what is really a very complicated pattern of soils and climate . |
| 13 | Why try to rewrite what 's already mapped out for us ? ’ |
| 14 | One , Levers Water Level , was put in to try what was probably the South Vein , with a branch taken off to try other lodes . |
| 15 | She gave him a hunted look and began to burrow in its depths to extract what was obviously going to be his present . |
| 16 | Instead , conjunction signals the way the writer wants the reader to relate what is about to be said to what has been said before . |
| 17 | Instead there is an attempt to consolidate what is already known . |
| 18 | In November 1 172 he had met his father-in-law on the Norman border and it was believed that Louis VII had urged him to demand what was rightfully his . |
| 19 | If we have decided on a moderate degree of modulation , it is well to know what is most effective and what subsequent progressions ( to return to the tonic ) are good . |
| 20 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 21 | People at the USTA and LTA are too far removed to know what is really required — Glenn William |
| 22 | To be successful at meetings you need to know what is really going on , or in other words what is below the surface . |
| 23 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 24 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 25 | Comparison can also be important when the researcher is trying to establish what is not an independent variable . |
| 26 | SUMMERCHILD : You want what are sometimes called ‘ ordinary people ’ ? |
| 27 | Vladimir described the difference as ‘ white washing ’ and ‘ washing white ’ : white washing is quick and relatively easy , just covering up what was there , but there is always the danger of it chipping off and revealing what is underneath . |
| 28 | Revealing what was much better hid , |
| 29 | At the same school I also recognised the importance of freedom of choice , when I approached what was then the equivalent of O-levels . |
| 30 | You seen what 's on tonight ? |