Example sentences of "[conj] what [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVER wondered what sounds influence our local bands , or what they think of the national and local music scenes ? |
| 2 | The intent can best be proved by an admission from the accused or what he said to the female to whom he exposed himself . |
| 3 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |
| 4 | Or what you found about the conversation , but your completion is mainly about the insights of doing this erm , transcription . |
| 5 | Could you give me some idea of what you 've found out , or what you feel on the subject . |
| 6 | ‘ Soul ’ is established as a category containing phenomena as disparate as Professor Paul Davies ' conviction that what we know of the universe points to a grand design , Miriam Rothschild 's delight in the beauty of her biological subject matter , and Oliver Sacks ' realisation that his patients ' brains do not resemble computers . |
| 7 | They would have failed to recognize and acknowledge that what we have on the basis of sense-experience is worth having , and worthy of the name of knowledge . |
| 8 | The point is that what we have in the life business is a cash flow statement , and no p&l account . |
| 9 | It would be an interminable occupation were it not for the fact that what one learns about the landscape of one town often throws a flash of light upon a topographical puzzle in another . |
| 10 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 11 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 12 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 13 | Do you not know that what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which — no , I can see you do not . |
| 14 | But there 's no there 's guarantee that what you buy in the bottle complies to that analysis . |
| 15 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 16 | To the coming generation of performers , pop was no longer expected to mean anything other than what it represented on the surface ; it was as if pop music 's aspirations towards deeper meanings and truths had been exhausted ; social realism was distanced by irony and a conscious manipulation of artifice . |
| 17 | But I 've been in the wood for many years and there is a lot more to read than what I keep in the shaman 's lodge . |
| 18 | Yeah but she 's got more hair than what I got in the front . |
| 19 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that there is much to be commended in general in his decision to reduce the infantry battalions by only 12 , 13 or 14 per cent. , which is a great deal better than what he did for the Regular Army ? |
| 20 | The writer works at the impossible task of creating a poem , a narrative , which tries to narrow the gap between the signal and what is signalled : tries to reverse the separation between the world and what we write about the world . |
| 21 | From this , and what we know of the demise of the mosaic craft in the mid-late third century , it has been customary -and reasonable — to infer that the Barton mosaic and the comparable mosaic from Woodchester are of the early fourth century , probably before 325 . |
| 22 | On occasion , the Minister has criticised the lack of detail in our overall defence expenditure proposals and what we propose for the Territorial Army and the reserve forces . |
| 23 | And what we do with the eyebrows , we do n't just use a pair of tweezers we actually use wax , so if you 've got quite a lot of hair underneath your brow , we never take from above the brow , just below , if you 've got quite a lot of hair , it can be painful if you 're just using tweezers , so what we do now we use a little bit of hot wax , which is pink , so we put some wax under the brow , either side , let the wax erm , cool and set , and then pull the wax off . |
| 24 | Nursing includes ‘ caring ’ about the family and what they mean to the patient . |
| 25 | We we 've asked I M R O if they actually got those accounts and what they learnt from the er from the Liechtenstein company and they 've told us they ca n't , they ca n't tell us it 's er it 's private correspondence . |
| 26 | The first omission was regarded by some of his ministerial colleagues as an eccentricity bordering on the provocative , especially after the injunctions from Michael Heseltine and Sir Geoffrey Howe to take more seriously the balance of payments figures and what they said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |
| 27 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 28 | But all the time we 're earwiggin' to Lee and his mates and what they thought of the show . |
| 29 | Huntley , a burly 51-yearold , has created a constant reminder of who they are and what they want in the form of glossy profiles , complete with pictures , inserted beneath a glass plate on the leather topped table in his office . |
| 30 | Traditionally it is a peaceful event , without confrontation between police and what they describe as the hippy convoy . |