Example sentences of "[vb -s] what [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He studies what other culture-vultures wrote about what ‘ war ’ signified , up to the mid-1930s . |
| 2 | Very often one sees schedules which have never been taken beyond the question-asking stage and one wonders what terrible time and effort must be expended on forcing all sorts of answers into categories later on , especially when electronic means of analysis , such as computers , are to be used . |
| 3 | One wonders what young library users would make of such an unnaturally placid , unearthly character . |
| 4 | For if they are able to communicate danger ( what greater danger to a plant can there be that something destroying its leaves or roots ? ) , one wonders what other signals are they able to pass between themselves ? |
| 5 | But Daedalus wonders what breathable foam would be like as a total environment . |
| 6 | The CCSCE report thus underlines what wise men have said all along : California 's problems are political and social , not economic . |
| 7 | During fitting out , provision was made for the whole floor ( which includes What Personal Computer 's sister titles — PC User and Which Computer ? ) to be properly cabled up , ready to be networked . |
| 8 | The gentility of Harrogate shows what upper-class people thought suitable in the early nineteenth century , as Basingstoke , with its urban carriageways and new industries , shows our demands today . |
| 9 | Just shows what modern medicine can do . ’ |
| 10 | It is our own species that really shows what cultural evolution can do . |
| 11 | Banderas is holding off making a decision until he sees what juicy roles Hollywood has to offer . |
| 12 | Crime , then , has to be seen as a socially variable phenomenon : it reflects what particular societies and governments , at particular times , include within their criminal laws and practices . |
| 13 | Normative positivism asserts what legal positivists deny , namely that there is a necessary connection between law and positive morality . |
| 14 | A minimal extension is to a labour market approach , which concentrates on the market productive role of human capital and asks what personal budget allows for a growing economy . |
| 15 | It is important also that awareness of this argument informs what primary school teachers do concerning RE . |
| 16 | He says we 've actually made it clear on our planning application that we 're prepared to look very carefully at the mix and size and type of housing to ensure it fits what local people need in the area . |
| 17 | This not only determines what central government will spend itself , but also influences what other public agencies , including local authorities , will spend . |
| 18 | And all of your performance all the performance of the sales consultants determines what other people are earning themselves . |
| 19 | It can seem to offer a completely adequate explanation of religion which bypasses what religious believers have always insisted upon as the truth . |
| 20 | It rejects what other conceptions of law accept : that people can have distinctly legal rights as trumps over what would otherwise be the best future properly understood . |
| 21 | ‘ Love 's Theme ’ live , now 18 years old and hopelessly dated , does what pop music is supposed to do , which is to make you feel good about yourself and momentarily released from the impossible contradictions , demands and sadness of life . |
| 22 | ( Who knows what personal skeletons may now be discovered in Mr Krenz 's private cupboard ? ) |
| 23 | Lord only knows what mysterious kind of cargo it was carrying . ’ |
| 24 | Everybody knows what weaning is mm ? |
| 25 | WHO KNOWS what petty grievances fester in the dark recesses of Martin Willis ' imagination , but on ‘ Au Fou ’ there seems an endless stream of negative subjects he can roar and screech about in snivelling , tired and emotional voice , rather like the Incredible Hulk moaning ‘ I do n't wan na go to school ’ . |
| 26 | J was when she got all jittery , thinking that perhaps she should have washed the apple before eating because who knows what toxic chemicals it might have been sprayed with ? |
| 27 | Down Royal appear to be on a ‘ high ’ these days and after having been voted ‘ Racecourse of the Year ’ by the Racing Club of Ireland , who knows what new horizons are in sight . |
| 28 | ‘ They 've got three ships in there , and God knows what other generators and so on , all of which generates quite a bit of heat . |
| 29 | They are custodians of a vast variety of potatoes — hundreds of genetically differing kinds , no doubt containing between them the secrets of natural disease resistance , tolerance of climate change , chemical-free extended shelf-life , frying without fat absorption and who knows what other desirable characteristics . |
| 30 | God knows what other injuries he suffered . ’ |