Example sentences of "what they [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They give us their advice on what they know about the voluntary sector , and they give us guidance and help , in fact , the meeting took place er , only two days ago , and absolutely invaluable to be able to sit and listen to people who 've spent their life in the voluntary sector working with some of the difficulties we do n't appreciate . |
| 2 | The teacher asks the children what they know about the old man . |
| 3 | Suppliers are angry about what they discern as a consistent pattern of Brandmakers refusing to pay bills because , the company says , goods delivered have fallen below the required standard . |
| 4 | It 's what they mean by a mini- series . |
| 5 | of course it is , apparently say what they like about the Green Party but at least that 's one thing they 're doing something |
| 6 | The agency is in a belligerent mood , fighting off what they regard as a male backlash . |
| 7 | When they hear a battle is brewing they flock to the battle site , ready to cast themselves into what they regard as the final hopeless battle between good and evil . |
| 8 | Directly related to this theme is the second major concern of libertarian writers : the roots of what they regard as the élitist , coercive nature of the regime established by the Bolsheviks . |
| 9 | Poststructuralists aspire to remove what they regard as the arbitrary distinctions between literature , criticism , theory , and philosophy , and Geoffrey Hartman has made it clear that he believes what he writes to be worthy of the esteem and attention normally given to ‘ creative ’ writing . |
| 10 | While Robson 's view is , today , largely rejected by academic observers , the agency model is still widely adhered to by many practitioners at local level — both councillors and officers — who in the second half of the 1980s see central controls inhibiting their freedom to act in what they regard as the local interest . |
| 11 | Naturally , neoclassical economists will stand aghast at what they regard as an unwarranted political intrusion into the realm of positive economics . |
| 12 | This is a response from workers who are perhaps seeking a respite from a tedious job , or who wish to defy what they regard as an oppressive management . |
| 13 | In the next part , I describe Buid attitudes towards what they perceive as the intrinsic aggressiveness of their lowland Christian neighbours , before turning to the activity in which the symbolism of tranquillity and aggression receives its greatest elaboration : animal sacrifice . |
| 14 | Incidentally it is just at this point that I find many theologians who enter this field particularly weak ; mainly because what they deduce from a Biblical view is so general ( and sometimes even vague ) that it is of little practical help in choosing between the main alternatives of the world today . |
| 15 | The Russian President and the G7 leaders have forged what they describe as a long-term partnership . |
| 16 | The Wrights live in the village of Cleadon , 4 miles north of Sunderland , in what they describe as a 150 year old ‘ fun house ’ , complete with sea views . |
| 17 | Their home , an 1855 Quaker Meeting House at Garstang , near Preston , is furnished in what they describe as an eclectic ‘ mish-mash ’ of styles , from 16th century to late 19th and everything in between . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Pleasure was what Believers sought in their old god ; innocence and naturalness are what they buy in the new . |
| 20 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 21 | EVER wondered what sounds influence our local bands , or what they think of the national and local music scenes ? |
| 22 | Senior BBC executives in Scotland are now concerned at what they see as a crucial shift in the balance of power to London . |
| 23 | Many senior executives are now concerned at what they see as a crucial shift in the balance of power from Scotland to London . |
| 24 | Although sociologists try to go beyond working within what they see as a narrow ‘ social problem ’ framework , this does not mean that their research can not provide insights and suggestions potentially relevant to practitioners and policy-makers . |
| 25 | Some people would like to stop these changes and go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age . |
| 26 | So this opportunity depends on a difference of opinion : investors thinking that prices are going to carry on rising , while firms rush to exploit what they see as a temporary state of affairs . |
| 27 | As North 's tawdry tale unfolded one was reminded of the 1962 novel Seven Days in May — which tells how a group of disaffected American generals plan to overthrow what they see as a weak and ineffective president by a military coup . |
| 28 | But they also know that it need not achieve the sort of certainty that leads theologians to drive wedges between faith and reason , or faith and history , in a desperate attempt to achieve a level of conviction that is impossible in what they see as a hostile rather than a mature scientific environment . |
| 29 | Nineteen members of the Centre Scientifique des Recherches Archáeologiques , the thirty-nine member body which advises on archaeological research in France , have resigned in protest at what they see as the unsatisfactory behaviour of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 30 | In an essay on the early-music revival in Europe and America , Howard Mayer Brown noted that ‘ many English musicians … even today react strongly against what they see as the serious limitations of the English church music tradition … |