Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me describe what I regard as the best conditions of all for bream fishing . |
| 2 | I do what I do to the best of my ability and hope that people will hear about it and come and visit . |
| 3 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 4 | Despite using expensive state-of-the-art machinery , the pitch staff have been defeated by what they describe as the wettest season in living memory . |
| 5 | What becomes clear is that a parent must listen to the individual school 's advice on what they see as the best sort of homework to give and in what amounts . |
| 6 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |
| 7 | He criticised the attitude of Scottish Office ministers to what he described as the gravest crisis in employment Scotland has faced since the war . |
| 8 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 9 | The modern school must , to my mind , stand or full by what it does for the worst-equipped children . |
| 10 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 11 | Early on , the RCM tried hard to play down differences with policy statements which leaned some way towards orthodoxy without limiting the freedom of the RCM to act in what it regarded as the best interests of individual children . |