Example sentences of "of what he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No indication is given of what he meant by the ‘ educational situation ’ , and there is no evidence that he undertook any systematic comparison of the educational quality of the two schools . |
| 2 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 3 | Paddy Ashdown advocated a ’ Citizens ' Britain ’ of free , participating , secure individuals in place of what he saw as a ‘ Citadel Britain ’ of oppressed , stressed people and a closed political system . |
| 4 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 5 | Jozef Pinior , a member of the party 's 10-member council elected at the meeting , said that the PPS-RD opposed the Mazowiecki government 's imposition of what he saw as a dependent capitalist system on Poland . |
| 6 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 7 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 8 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 9 | He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method : |
| 10 | Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them . |
| 11 | Nizan is clearly dismissive of what he considers as the ill-informed and frankly false perceptions of the USSR based on liberal prejudices : " I am not impressed by accounts of a " new " bourgeoisie . |
| 12 | In an entertaining and revealing note which prefaces this recording , the clarinettist Murray Khouri laments the passing of what he describes as the ‘ lyric ’ school of British clarinet playing , the origins of which , he suggests , may be traced to the vocal traditions of our great cathedrals . |
| 13 | The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " . |
| 14 | All these groups can think that Mr Clinton is their man because of what he said during the mesmerising presidential campaign of 1992 . |
| 15 | In response to his anxiety , perhaps he will send me quotations of what he said during the period of the last Labour Government when 30,980 jobs were lost in the mining industry in Wales . |
| 16 | He 's been quick to make capital out of what he regards as the A N C's incomplete suspension . |
| 17 | Reid developed a rather more interesting objection , one made earlier by Berkeley , which puts the case of a general who is conscious of things he did as an officer , but no longer conscious , as he was when an officer , of what he did as a boy . |
| 18 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 19 | Only these little bits of bogus power enable him to think he is in control of what he sees as the correct father-son relationship . |
| 20 | it is a clear statement of what he sees as the group 's essential mission — to construct and operate a customer-driven enterprise . |
| 21 | He is critical not only of what he views as the aesthetic escapism of modernism , but also of the crude and facile schematisation of Stalinist socialist realism . |
| 22 | Moore 's account of what he means by a natural property is none too clear , but in effect it means something like detectable by the senses or by scientific instruments . |
| 23 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 24 | President Chissano was critical of what he described as the MNR 's " delaying tactics " . |
| 25 | Habash stated that the PFLP 's decision was a result of what he described as the " erroneous political line " being pursued by the PLO leadership in accepting conditions set by the United States for the formation of a Palestinian delegation to the Madrid conference . |
| 26 | Mr Hall 's comments came in the wake of what he described as the ‘ sham consultation ’ by Mersey regional health bosses on trust status . |