Example sentences of "of what [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other examples of what van Dijk ( 1977 : 150 ) terms macro-structure connectives are ‘ furthermore ’ , ‘ however ’ , and ‘ so ’ . |
| 2 | If this suggests that there are other sorts of English people than the sort Auden has in his sights , on the other hand it lends point and force to his censure of Beerbohm , and of what Beerbohm stands for in English life . |
| 3 | He was now frightened of what Newton might do . |
| 4 | A review of the procedure demands an assessment of whether these objectives are achieved , and , if they are not , a consideration of what reforms of the present procedure are necessary or whether a more radical approach is required . |
| 5 | In the first place , if you are being seen in a hospital out-patient department , the doctor who sees you should write to your GP to inform him of what treatment has been given . |
| 6 | As the demographic balance shifts against the Russian population , the Armed Forces have also become a critical instrument of what Westerners often term ‘ national integration ’ , but what the Soviet authorities , with their characteristic mixture of Socialist and Great Russian chauvinism , prefer to term ‘ the elimination of national conceit ’ . |
| 7 | He held out his ID ; it showed nothing of what unit or corps he belonged to . |
| 8 | The artwork needs to offer the greatest possible contrast to the camera , so it is best to use a very black ink on a very white paper ( equally true , of course , for photocopying regardless of what colour paper you want to print on ) . |
| 9 | You 'll soon find yourself developing a pretty sure grasp of what colour is all about . |
| 10 | Of what colour . |
| 11 | The baton-wielder is left in charge of what Dr Mathews calls the music 's expressive part . |
| 12 | This denotes a quality or characteristic and answers the question Of what king ? |
| 13 | This is because , owing to the existence of what Paul Willis calls the ‘ objective possibilities ’ ( and limitations ) of material and ideological structures , it is easier to find links and analogies between them in some cases than in others ( Willis 1978 : 198–201 ) . |
| 14 | The growth of what Paul Addison has called ‘ Attlee consensus ’ clearly drew upon the kind of ideas represented in the Picture Post issue . |
| 15 | The use of forms helps to standardize the recording procedures , and also serves as a reminder of what observations to make and what to look for . |
| 16 | I would support er , most of what Councillor has said . |
| 17 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 18 | In any case the San Diego Chamber gives a winning account , full of high spirits , of what Hugo Cole rightly describes in his excellent study of Arnold 's music ( Faber : 1989 ) as ‘ one of the most delightful of Arnold 's lighter works ’ . |
| 19 | Figure 8.1 , using the shape of a circle containing equal segments , gives an example of what religions have in common : they all teach very high ethical standards and ideals which are seen as intimately related to the metaphysical reality behind the world — a reality which in most religions is called " God " . |
| 20 | Clearly , they can be seen to have a particular self-concept , a sense of what Weber termed social honour ( Wallis , Bruce , and Taylor 1986 ) . |
| 21 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 22 | Professor Miller , for such he has to be called for identification purposes , was first asked to give a definition of what psychology was , though the other Miller probably knew what the answer would be . |
| 23 | Since the falsification of one hypothesis of similarity leads to the formation and testing of another , these differences are never settled , and so ‘ difference ’ is the sign of what psychology does not , as well as of what it does , know . |
| 24 | The reasons for this seem to fall into three categories : ignorance of what solicitors can do on the part of potential clients and a lack of preparedness in pursuing legal action , that is apathy ; the public image of lawyers ; and barriers against use , in particular cost and accessibility . |
| 25 | Dostoyevsky , for instance , raises the devices of what Shklovsky calls the boulevard novel to the status of a literary norm , and Chekhov transfers features from comic magazines into Russian literary prose . |
| 26 | ‘ He told me , ’ said Roland , neutrally , watching for a sign of her consciousness of what Fergus might have said , of how he might have spoken . |
| 27 | Everyone has their idea of what Chancellor Norman Lamont should bring the motorist on Tuesday . |
| 28 | Now he has thrown caution to the wind in his forecast of what Chancellor Lamont may tell the House of Commons this afternoon , by revealing that : ‘ this Budget is likely to highlight proposals which would be implemented by the Conservatives following an Election victory . ’ |
| 29 | The criticisms were not specific : British people were not well enough trained in comparison with people from some other countries , their training did not take sufficient account of what employers wanted , there was too little emphasis on the connection between the launching of new enterprises and the training of people in readiness for and in order to follow the consequences of those launches — and the absence of collaborative management in the past had led to poorly organized training . |
| 30 | Statement of objectives : clear statements of what departments were setting out to do were required . |