Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We — that is you and 1 — as well as the Yek , ought to know what lies beyond the Great Sea . |
| 2 | Here we talk to former teachers , old friends and relatives in a special TODAY investigation to discover what lies inside the tortured soul of Sinead . |
| 3 | There is a concerted desire to destroy what remains of the referential illusion : what seems ‘ real ’ is immediately transformed into another representation in the form of a painting , a postcard or a film . |
| 4 | It is about people coming to identify and express personal feelings , wishes and circumstances and coming to understand what contributes to the positive and negative of their existence . |
| 5 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 6 | You 'll have to wait to see what happens to the Famous Five until he can read it to you in his own inept fashion . |
| 7 | They are : ( 1 ) the relationship between psychology and biology and the possibility of dispensing with psychology altogether once physiology has been developed sufficiently ; ( 2 ) the value of studies on non-human species ; ( 3 ) the degree of functional specialization in the sub-areas of the brain and the ways of analysing and describing those functions ; ( 4 ) the way we are responding to the challenges of cognitive psychology ; and ( 5 ) the importance of being able to explain what happens in the real world , rather than just the laboratory . |
| 8 | Indeed , for most of human history we have tended to do the reverse , to use the analogy of the human mind to explain what happens in the physical world , an approach known as ‘ animism ’ . |