Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] what [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This phenomenon is entirely due to what I would call ‘ battery stamina ’ . |
| 2 | They are only interested in what they can make out of it . ’ |
| 3 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 4 | Th that , that message is entirely opposite from what you would |
| 5 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 6 | This book is much concerned with what I shall call ‘ extrapolation theory ’ ; that is to say the drawing of inferences regarding the sequence of changes whereby one psychobiological state has shifted to another — from chimp-like language , say , to human speech . |
| 7 | It has even led in extreme cases to a few excavators being so certain of what they would find before they put a spade into the ground , that evidence was selected and rejected in accordance with their predetermined thinking . |
| 8 | Cardiff turned to see that Rohmer was the only one apparently unaffected by what they 'd all just heard . |
| 9 | It is just different from what it would be had Gloriana been intended as a Grand Opera in the A ida sense . |
| 10 | Yet , the medicalization of health within our society has left people generally unaware of what they can do to maintain their own health . |
| 11 | You can buy a number of products which will allow your fish to feed while you are away , including automatic feeders and holiday blocks , but for a normal two week vacation your adult fish will do just fine on what they can find in the tank . |
| 12 | If you 're not sure about what you should do when , contact your local Agricultural Development Advisory Service ( ADAS ) office : you 'll find it in the phone book under the section devoted to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Foods . |
| 13 | Its activities have grown with every year , but public financing has not , so it is more and more dependent on what it can extract through planning regulations from the developers and industrialists themselves . |
| 14 | While you 're still a lifer you 're generally more interested in what it would be like to see a ghost . |
| 15 | ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can . |
| 16 | Er looking at this , if it 's actually a lot more central to what we ought to be doing . |
| 17 | Rangers manager Walter Smith still believes that Marseilles have a slight edge as they have to face Rangers at home on April 7 but he said : ‘ I 'm still optimistic about what we can do in our home games . ’ |
| 18 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 19 | And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover . |
| 20 | He did n't use to like ti , never , he was always terrified at what I would n't do next . |
| 21 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 22 | Between these two pieces of legislation directed against " cottagers " and " paupers " — in other words against squatters — there occurred the most famous of what we would now call " ideologically-inspired " squats , that of Winstanley and the Diggers at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey in 1649 . |
| 23 | I 'm as interested in what you can discover about Heather 's state of mind as you are yourself , so it 's only fair I should contribute to your expenses . |
| 24 | It showed that our formal control and planning mechanisms fell far short of what we would like . |
| 25 | Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ? |
| 26 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |
| 27 | But the membership was still far short of what it should have been . |
| 28 | ‘ They are really choosy about what they will and will not buy — or rather , have their parents buy for them ! ’ he added . |
| 29 | if I do that you 've all got to scatter and we were really worried about what we might find . |
| 30 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |