Example sentences of "what [verb] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has to happen is this . |
| 2 | Basically , what has happened is that progress in technology , allied with rising affluence , has transformed availability of media and made personal choice both possible and affordable . |
| 3 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 4 | Er the situation is that what has happened is that government has lowered the mandatory ceiling from fifty thousand to twenty thousand . |
| 5 | Mr Dickinson said : ‘ From what I understand what has happened is that last year the county championships were held the week after the Spring Bank Holiday and some counties have automatically presumed that this would be the case this year Cleveland and Northumberland included . |
| 6 | So what tends to happen is that world , world agricultural prices fall , right , and that trend has been observed erm , er , it 's an im empiric empirically , agricultural product prices tend to have fallen in general sort of , over the last sort of , eighteen hundred years . |
| 7 | What tends to happen is that domestic agricultural production has already been subsidized , alright , it 's subsidized again , only to , to be sold on the world market . |
| 8 | And so what tends to happen is that at the end of a groined bit of beach the area immediately down-drift , that is to the east on the Sussex coast , starts to suffer from very serious erosion . |
| 9 | Before we do that we must see what we can glimpse of what seems to have been another major achievement of the seventh century , the revival of the art of painting . |
| 10 | The men , aged 21 and 25 , were each injured in both legs in what appears to have been another loyalist paramilitary attack . |
| 11 | What had occurred was this . |
| 12 | In other words what had happened is that legal doctrine had drawn upon conflicting conceptions of the company to legitimate limited liability and to endorse the power conferred upon directors to manage the company . |
| 13 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 14 | What had happened was that Syl had , one evening , flushed with wine , remarked that he thought it would be a good idea if we got married . |
| 15 | What had happened was this . |
| 16 | But what does matter is that relegation of drama to the same order of non-seriousness as game , revellings and disportings , permitted an ‘ it 's only a game ’ attitude — both dismissive and tolerant — to creep in . |
| 17 | What 's happened is that policy makers 've shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs they 're protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er , to G A T T do n't come under erm G A T T regulations , what those tariffs do nevertheless , tariffs have , have come down in manufactured goods right , erm , since the second world war when G A T T was er , was established . |
| 18 | No , what 's happened is this . |
| 19 | What 's happened is this . |
| 20 | I suppose what 's happened is this : he has gone on staring out of the window , thinking , and she has gone on staring at him , waiting , with such absorption that neither of them noticed the tape had run out . |
| 21 | I shall say to him , what 's happened is this this week 's or last week 's ? |
| 22 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |