Example sentences of "[prep] what be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sort of what 's the approximate number of people on it ? |
| 2 | Though definitions of what is the appropriate methodology for a subject tend to shift over time , at present , teachers of certain subjects — modern languages in particular — seem strongly inclined to a transmission approach to teaching . |
| 3 | It would certainly include : the physical lay-out of the houses we live in and of the settlements of which they form a part ; the general pattern of conventional procedures by which foodstuffs and other necessities of life are produced and distributed and finally consumed ; the way children are brought up ; the way tasks are allocated to different members of the household ; the ideas we have about the nature of reality and of the cosmos , our sense of what is the proper way to behave towards kin and neighbours and persons in authority ; the kinds of clothes and the styles of language which are appropriate to different occasions , etc . |
| 4 | We 've got really two things in play here , one is the role of individuals who administer and the other is the role of the people , so we have a question of what is the proper role of the people and what is the proper role of the individual administrators . |
| 5 | Thus , the definition of what is the national culture is the result of a preemptive strike by only one group of people . |
| 6 | However , judicial opinion has varied in its view of what is the dominant ingredient of public policy . |
| 7 | Now a question of what are the industrial and employment needs of the Harrogate District ? |
| 8 | That is where Britain , China , France , the United States and the components of what was the Soviet Union have a clear responsibility . |
| 9 | a more detached view of what was the right thing or the wrong thing to do , a tradition of what national life was like , and what it ought to continue to be like . |
| 10 | The private Bodmer collection in Geneva is now the home of what was the only surviving Russian example of the 1455 Gutenburg Bible , bought for the Imperial library in the middle of the last century . |
| 11 | The Tu–144 part of the story includes some rare air-to-air shots of what was the first supersonic passenger aircraft to fly ( it flew almost three months before Concorde , on the last day of 1968 ) as well as a brief history of Tupolev and his early aircraft . |
| 12 | That will raise a number of new question marks throughout what was the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Like what 's the bleeding difference between fag smoke and josh sticks , eh ? |
| 14 | South of Berlin , near what was the old East-West border . |
| 15 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
| 16 | They had a house in Broomie Knowe at the bottom : it faces onto what is the public park now , the big hill . |
| 17 | They 're pursuing a different tack — they are less concerned with what is the economic connection than what ought to be " . |
| 18 | My Lord it will be helped in that situation in my submission by evidence from which is dealing with what is the accepted and standard practice in that solicitors in handling these forms of transactions and what advice is given my Lord undoubtedly that must be of benefit to the courts . |
| 19 | In what is the accepted and , in-deed , only acceptable view , the underclass is deemed the source of its own succour and well-being ; in the extreme view , it requires the spur of its own poverty , and it will be damaged by any social assistance and support . |
| 20 | Is it a sensible planning strategy to take all this land between the city boundary and the inner boundary of the greenbelt , in what is the current structure plan period , I wonder ? |
| 21 | Dolphins of all ages and humans intermingle daily in knee-deep water in what is the longest human/dolphin encounter on record . |
| 22 | The elderly are terrified to cross the road in what is the main shopping centre . |
| 23 | He said yesterday : ‘ We are putting some of our best people out there to build up operations in what are the fastest growth areas in the world . ’ |
| 24 | But when the electorate went yet again to the polls on 19 May , this time to elect their local government representatives , the DUP did quite well in what was the first genuine free-for-all among unionist parties . |
| 25 | Dogs were used to put down a land reform demonstration outside the National Congress in Asunción on June 23 , 1989 ; 10 people were injured in what was the first major use of force since Rodríguez had seized power . |
| 26 | There were many pluses in what was the best performance of the season so far , home or away . |
| 27 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 28 | It is vital that we preserve our own independent nuclear deterrent as protection against nuclear blackmail ; it is equally important that we take every possible step — as we are doing — to ensure that the process of rapid political change , and the change of authority that has taken place in what was the Soviet Union , do not lead to a more dangerous situation in regard to the present control and authority over nuclear weapons . |
| 29 | About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air . |
| 30 | A bookcase was set alight in what was the latest in a series of death threats and vandalism aimed at the Mossley Hill MP . |