Example sentences of "of what [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be one example of what we call teleological explanation . |
| 2 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 3 | Everything was very legitimate and above board , but we had very specific requirements of what we wanted this representation to be , because it is life size . |
| 4 | But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be . |
| 5 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 6 | The problem is as they know in their heart of hearts much of what they propose this year is not sustainable in future years . |
| 7 | Psychologists have also found that gradation facilitates the prevention of what they call retroactive inhibition , whereby new material is confused with old material in such a way that neither can be remembered . |
| 8 | In terms of what you write these days , are you thinking of a style ? |
| 9 | Keep the details of what you did last night the same . |
| 10 | It 's because , it 's because , no it 's because of what you did last week . |
| 11 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 12 | It was a sort of what you call public council grounds I suppose you know . |
| 13 | Bank credit card ( Access , Barclaycard , Trustcard ) Flexible credit facility up to an agreed limit averaging £400 ) , for cash loans or credit purchases from the 100,000-plus shops etc. taking the cards ; must pay at least ( say ) five per cent of what you owe each month , but can choose to pay more ; no interest if you pay in full within 25 days of monthly statement ( except for cash drawings ) , interest on rest of debt changes periodically if bank base rate changes much . |
| 14 | I think that discussion is more usefully conducted in terms of what you called normal vacancies . |
| 15 | I kept a notebook of what I made each day . |
| 16 | Because , I suddenly , oh that was even funnier because I was I suddenly went Angie I think we 've got a leak , and it was like all on the , all in my windowsill and sort of like came down and then , luckily , she said she only realized because of what I did last year , leaving my sink on , that it goes through the floor , otherwise , none of what , we would n't have realized . |
| 17 | I see that in American television now there are a lot of what I call reality-based shows which are doing that also . |
| 18 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 19 | An author named Henri Martin , who wrote under the name of Barzun , published a ‘ Manifeste sur le simultanisme poétique ’ , and disputed with Apollinaire the invention of what he called literary Simultaneism . |
| 20 | InfoNow Corp , Boulder , Colorado pioneer of what it calls electronic commerce , using digital technology such as CD-ROM , new media , security , encryption , digital transmission to deliver products , has completed a private placing of stock , raising gross proceeds of $1.65m . |
| 21 | ft was wrong , one Kufran Islamic socialist explained , that a man who owned a drilling machine should keep 80 per cent of what it earned each month while those who worked it should share only 20 per cent . |
| 22 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |