Example sentences of "[prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen 's broadcast has traditionally been a closely guarded secret — and it was seen as more sensitive than usual this year after what the Queen has termed her ‘ annus horribilis ’ or horrible year . |
| 2 | The Baker Plan of 1986 was a move in the right direction but came only after what the IMF called the painful adjustment phase of 1983–4 was over . |
| 3 | He died in Wirksworth after what the Derby Mercury described as a ‘ severe illness ’ , and was buried 9 May 1799 . |
| 4 | Three days ago , a 400lb bomb which destroyed the Stewarts supermarket in Derriaghy went off just 15 minutes after what the terrorists had claimed was a 45-minute warning . |
| 5 | Col. Eduardo Herrera Hassan , a former chief of police , was arrested by United States troops on Dec. 5 following what the government of President Guillermo Endara Galimany described as an " attempted coup " . |
| 6 | Business Monitor : Management backing the Union Andrew Griffiths looks north of the border and towards what the future might hold for Scotland |
| 7 | Having said that , the Arts Council proposes a number of significant shifts in the allocation of funds , in which the trend is to move away from income-support schemes for artists towards what the Council has vaguely described as ‘ upgrading quality ’ . |
| 8 | Alfieri 's obsession with this case and his genuine concern towards what the outcome might be show a compassionate , and perhaps emotional , streak in the man . |
| 9 | That 's it for the back , which is surprising really , considering what the Quad-FX is capable of doing . |
| 10 | Land has been released to developers for residential and commercial prices well below what the market would bear ( Klausner , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | The sale of the state-owned airline Aerolíneas Argentinas , was finally agreed after a year of negotiations in Buenos Aires on July 4 , at a price well below what the government had predicted [ see pp. 37608 ; 37773 for background ] . |
| 12 | It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) . |
| 13 | In nineteen ninety one the S S A was introduced as the measure for assessing local authority needs and in that year our spending , instead of being one or two percent below what the government thought , it shot up to forty nine point nine five percent above the S S A figures . |
| 14 | The virtue of artists ' writings for the reader of criticism is that it can often serve as a touchstone for judging the worth of mediators , particularly those presenting views of what the artist intended ; what the artist said may be more to the point . |
| 15 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 16 | This may prove more effective if the girl playing the wife has no idea of what the scene is going to be about . |
| 17 | It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) . |
| 18 | But that , he wrote , is part of what the big glass itself will try to explore , with its notion of delay . |
| 19 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 20 | That I avoided such a course of action is because of my own understanding of what the institution would allow before it swung into action . |
| 21 | We were well aware of our limitations long before David Steer ( 1980 ) pointed out that ‘ the great majority of crime detections involve little of what the public would perceive as real detective ability ’ . |
| 22 | By contrast , the metaphysical question of what the preconditions are for the world 's being accessible to thought was uppermost for Plato and Aristotle . |
| 23 | So , if he abstracts from his knowledge of what the brain state actually is , he can form the same conception of experience as that had by the subject of the experience . |
| 24 | Moreover in other kinds of false belief experiment ( by Henry Wellman ) where three-year-olds watch a puppet make a mistake in searching , the children are quite capable of explaining the failure in terms of what the puppet is wrongly thinking . |
| 25 | Although we could n't speak the language , there were enough ‘ … issimos ’ attached to the adjectives to give a good idea of what the locals thought of the route , and the frequent appearance of numbers like VIII , VII+ , A4 and A3 on the topo seemed more in keeping with our previous experience than the more modest gradings given by Ron James . |
| 26 | Much of what the novelist wanted to say lay outside the murderer 's ken , and , as we shall see , Raskolnikov 's consciousness was in other , subtler ways too confining . |
| 27 | One elderly man said : ‘ We were all very frightened of what the police would do , but they behaved sensibly . ’ |
| 28 | You bring us news of what the public prints Think fit to say upon our royal performance ? |
| 29 | In a patron 's letter delivered by video to the Trust 's annual general meeting and repeated in full in the recent newsletter , Prince Charles said ‘ The recent purchase of the Torrin estate is the best possible demonstration of what the Trust is all about . |
| 30 | By the mid-1980s , this became increasingly the accepted view of what the Thatcher years had meant for Britain as a society and a polity . |