Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 2 | On Feb. 18 after what he described as a " routine investigative hearing " a Libyan judge rejected extradition of the two men accused of the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 3 | Writing in 1900 , the German architect and critic Hermann Muthesius identified as one of the most significant developments in European architecture the tendency of certain British architects towards what he described as a ‘ modern ’ style , which referred to no tradition , and created a new architectural language of space and mass . |
| 4 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 5 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 6 | This argument , which amounts to a discussion of what we mean by a miracle , will occupy the rest of this chapter . |
| 7 | The Horses ' sequence ( of which Nos.1 to 49 are also illustrated here ) provided " a dictionary of what we do to an image " . |
| 8 | According to functionalism , it is useful to categorize environmental stimuli on the basis of what they mean to a subject rather than on the basis of their gross physical characteristics . |
| 9 | In the end they were committed , as he was , to the preservation of a Protestant Ulster , to the suppression of what they saw as a republican rebellion , and to the restoration of majority rule in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 11 | Police sources said the news was delayed to prevent a repeat of what they described as a media circus when police swooped on the home of a 12-year-old boy on Tuesday . |
| 12 | Some reserve a special anger for France , the Maghreb 's former colonial power , because of what they see as a betrayal of its politique Arabe . |
| 13 | Traders have hit back with a T shirt campaign , warning town shoppers and town planners alike of what they see as a threat to the very fabric of the town centre . |
| 14 | The policeman typed his version of what she said on an old manual Remington . |
| 15 | Kahlo 's adoption of Tehuana dress , while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body , asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position . |
| 16 | You can not do this without projecting the effect of what you write upon an imagined reader . |
| 17 | If you think of what you do on a holiday , it 's a totally different lifestyle to when you 're normally working and obviously people desire to have that sort of experience more and more , and you 've got the rise of things like short breaks . |
| 18 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 19 | Enough of what I regard as a premeditated incident at Lord 's . ’ |
| 20 | The next fallacy that causes some confusion in the discussion is the persistence of what I regard as a narrow outdated approach to the notion of sovereignty . |
| 21 | In particular , it is necessary to pay close attention to the relationship of civil society ( within which I will include much of what I mean by a specific urban culture ) and state forms and processes , in a context of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ . |
| 22 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 23 | Paddy Ashdown advocated a ’ Citizens ' Britain ’ of free , participating , secure individuals in place of what he saw as a ‘ Citadel Britain ’ of oppressed , stressed people and a closed political system . |
| 24 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 25 | Jozef Pinior , a member of the party 's 10-member council elected at the meeting , said that the PPS-RD opposed the Mazowiecki government 's imposition of what he saw as a dependent capitalist system on Poland . |
| 26 | Reid developed a rather more interesting objection , one made earlier by Berkeley , which puts the case of a general who is conscious of things he did as an officer , but no longer conscious , as he was when an officer , of what he did as a boy . |
| 27 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 28 | Moore 's account of what he means by a natural property is none too clear , but in effect it means something like detectable by the senses or by scientific instruments . |
| 29 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 30 | The multiplicity of utterance meanings does not mean that any linguistic expression can mean anything at all in complete disregard of what it means as a sentence . |