Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of the ‘ independent ’ director , though arguably reflecting what non-executives should always have been , is a new one . |
| 2 | The strategy effectively neutralised what the Conservatives had hoped would be a vote-winner with an electorate wary about an upsurge in union power under Labour if it could be made an issue . |
| 3 | After the mauling received from his dear colleagues , the designer eventually produces what he hopes will be a document which meets the internal criticisms . |
| 4 | For example , many of our social policies ‘ embody assumptions about the nature of families and thereby influence what families are expected to be ’ ( Parker , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | We knew very little about these last clients of the season except that they were two attorneys and a proctologist , all from Georgia and all vacationing with their wives , and we also knew that one of the wives was a vegetarian and that the proctologist hated pasta , but beyond that our guests were utter strangers and so we waited nervously to see what kind of people would be our companions and paymasters for the next week . |
| 6 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 7 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 8 | First and foremost , we have to understand that we rarely fear what we have found to be true . |
| 9 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 10 | We relaxed for an hour with a cup of tea and Otley switched the magic box on to see what the world was up to . |
| 11 | Five things to achieve may well seem a lot , but for encouragement read on to see what objectives other women have set themselves . |
| 12 | Her depleted tray cooling fast , she moved on to see what else she could find . |
| 13 | Marc had already admitted he had been leading her on to see what she would do . |
| 14 | Words rarely mean what they seem to say . |
| 15 | Since statistics rarely mean what they appear to at first glance , we should , however , look at these figures with caution . |
| 16 | Feminists were effectively articulating what had been implicit in much of moral purity — an opposition to the idea that the male sexual urge was uncontrollable , and that frequent intercourse was necessary for men 's health . |
| 17 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 18 | Another aspiring actress bitterly resented what she considered to be interference from Bloomsbury House . |
| 19 | But there is evidence that working class women bitterly resented what they regarded as middle class interference . |
| 20 | You effectively repeat what they have said , agreeing with them , and then tell them what you want and expect and why . |
| 21 | The study went on to estimate what fuels would have been used in electricity generation if there had been no nuclear power , concluding that the world 1987 total of 1660,800 million kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by nuclear power had displaced 1,790 million barrels of oil , 185 million tonnes of coal and 3,103,000 million cubic feet of natural gas , and had meant the avoidance of purchases of OPEC oil to the value of US$30,700 million in that year alone . |
| 22 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 23 | The Judicature Acts of 1873–75 created a single Supreme Court of Judicature , comprising courts of both law and equity and thereby fusing what had previously been two separate systems . |
| 24 | The effect of placing the short sentence at the end is powerful : whereas other sentences relate the setting to the observer , this one relates the observer to his setting , and thereby summarizes what has been implied in the rest of the paragraph . |
| 25 | Go on say what you |
| 26 | While she was ponderously explaining what an LOA presentation was , they could n't probe at him . |
| 27 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 28 | It 's inconceivable that Andrew did n't eventually know what was going on . |
| 29 | Secondly , they could further extend their provision of a mixture of courses , both academic and vocational , at non-advanced and advanced levels , thereby becoming what might more accurately be termed Colleges of Further and Higher Education . |
| 30 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |