Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the effect of reducing both public expenditure and the budget deficit below what they would otherwise have been . |
| 2 | This exodus was mainly caused by the anti-Communist attitude of their priests : and most of all by the new premier of what we may now call South Vietnam , Ngo Dinh Diem . |
| 3 | In this respect , however , Reynolds 's Newspaper had devised an interesting prototype of what we might nowadays call ‘ anomie theory ’ , arguing that crime was an inevitable result of the system of distribution of wealth and opportunity . |
| 4 | Hall and Davidoff have studied Victorian domestic ideology ; they have shown the importance of that ideology to an understanding of what we might now consider to be a " natural " division between public and private spheres based on a supposedly " natural " division between the sexes . |
| 5 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 6 | In the case of what we would now distinguish as ‘ arts ’ , an early example is the fourteenth-century Florentine guild , actually that of the surgeon apothecaries but including painters from an overlap of working materials . |
| 7 | A rather chilling symbol of what we would now regard as the male chauvinism of the times is furnished by the wording and the sentiments contained in an Act of Parliament passed in the year Charles and Elizabeth were married , 1770 : |
| 8 | Even so , Baden-Powell 's intriguing romanticisation of what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ was not an uncommon response in these years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That is they would really be the beginnings of what we would now call travelogues . |
| 11 | What he 's trying to do is always to get outside ideological systems , and to present arguments which are simply in terms of what we must all desire . |
| 12 | Work in a museum did not encourage the study of what we should now call ecological relationships . |
| 13 | This much more elaborated nervous system is associated with a much greater range of what we can recognizably call adaptive behaviour . |
| 14 | Lewis came to the faith by means of what one could loosely term Neo-Platonism . |
| 15 | Whether that would be in China or another country depended on the unknown factors of what they would actually find overseas and the outcome of developments in China . |
| 16 | The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) . |
| 17 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 18 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 19 | They 're very important , part of her background — of what you might almost call her mythology . |
| 20 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 21 | In the case of the B flat Concerto ( and this is the only major piano work of this type that comes to mind ) , Brahms sometimes simply wrote down too many notes — unrestrained by the practicality of what you can actually play . |
| 22 | Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game . |
| 23 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 24 | As part of what he would later call his ‘ quiet revolution ’ , Heath made detailed preparations for a new style of government , business-like , rational and free of Wilsonian gimmickry . |
| 25 | Nothing , that is , of what he could definitely state . |
| 26 | To attract those users who might otherwise be waylaid by clone vendors with their own Sparc 10 equivalents out soon , Mitsui 's sales director David Wallis promises an upgrade which could save the user up to $10,000 — but with no details of what it will actually cost them . |
| 27 | He looked at me , calmly threw his jacket into the car and then launched into what I can only describe as the most unbelievable martial arts display I have ever seen . |
| 28 | I found myself heading into what I can only describe as a ‘ ton-up ’ tide . |
| 29 | There is no room here for a highly technical debate about language , but what is clear is that Christianity can not possibly associate any view of God with what we would normally conceive a person to be . |
| 30 | Though she wanted to run , she forced herself to walk , with what she could only hope was regal grace , past Matthew and out of the confines of that cupboard . |