Example sentences of "what [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are at stake in the Harrods affair are ethics and the standards of behaviour required of people in business and public life in Britain . |
| 2 | Er , looking through the officer workload ratios in paragraph four , it shows that using what are in honesty fairly crude Home Office measures , we 're really quite well to the national average , that we carry out approximately four hundred and thirty three inspections per officer in a year as opposed to the expected four hundred and eighty two . |
| 3 | Political parties are formally banned , but under the right of association there is no bar on the formation of what are in effect political organizations . |
| 4 | Erm the element of control side of it , is extremely frustrating and have have been hinted at by previous speakers to see what are in effect regular and truly massive retail operations going on without development control , without the development of any kind of highway controls which is a county council matter is fully my argue frustrating . |
| 5 | Rather , they present as an individual property , following from the impact of impairment on the ‘ self ’ , what are in fact learnt behaviours . |
| 6 | I will not therefore take the time of the House with the conventional lengthy explanation of the detail of what are in fact relatively routine pieces of annual business , such as the guaranteed minimum pensions order and the draft contributions rerating order , which are very much in line with their predecessors over a number of years . |
| 7 | ‘ Twopence for those what are in uniform , ’ he was told with undisguised disdain . |
| 8 | We used to get , we used to get newspaper , look what were on television |
| 9 | It will consider , first of all , the state of the finance function as it stood at the end of 1988 , and assess what changes had recently taken place , what were in progress and what further developments could logically have been anticipated . |
| 10 | In 1851 he used what were in effect vectors in deriving magnetic equations without using Poisson 's theory of magnetic fluid . |
| 11 | By 1980 , market-related interest rates were payable on ‘ retail ’ time deposits and in 1983 the first ‘ high-interest cheque accounts ’ appeared , offering market interest rates on what were in effect sight deposits subject to a high minimum credit balance . |
| 12 | Do we see any difficulty in er in what were in effect saying , that the base says , we have no objection to the proposed wording from either the extra duties recognized in outline above , and they 're not going to be . |
| 13 | He ushered in a new era in the study of religion and of theology ; he brought a new conception of what the disciplined and ordered study of both could be ; he underlined in epoch-making fashion the importance of the subjective aspect of religious awareness , pointing to what lies deeper than intellectual formulations , yet is not reducible to inchoate and diffuse ‘ feelings ’ ; he attempted to grasp and express in an original and modern way the abiding significance of Jesus , and to uncover the living and personal meaning of what were in danger of being dismissed as merely the fossilised accretions of doctrine . |
| 14 | What 's up love ? |
| 15 | What 's up Christopher ? |
| 16 | ‘ What 's up Doyle ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What 's up Moll ? ’ he asked breathlessly . |
| 18 | What 's up Hel ? |
| 19 | I suppose I ought to start by saying , what 's up doc ? |
| 20 | What 's up Doc ! |
| 21 | What 's up darling ? |
| 22 | What 's up Michael ? |
| 23 | ‘ What 's up Jackie , ’ Yanto shouted as the first boy jumped the fence into the pub yard . |
| 24 | What 's up Teresa ? |
| 25 | Both women and men have a surge of testosterone in the early morning , but as women have a lower level to surge to , they are more likely to be overwhelmed by thoughts like ‘ What 's for breakfast ? ’ or ‘ Did I ring the plumber ? ’ than by passion . |
| 26 | Wonder what 's for breakfast this morning . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's for breakfast , or should I say brunch ? ’ |
| 28 | What 's for breakfast ? |
| 29 | " What 's for afters ? " he asked . |
| 30 | For a resident , little things become so big when your whole life can revolve round what 's for lunch and can you sit in your usual place or has someone pinched it ? |