Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 2 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |
| 3 | JC : What I remember about the first night was an uncomfortable feeling that the piece was under-rehearsed musically . |
| 4 | Let me describe what I regard as the best conditions of all for bream fishing . |
| 5 | Various other lines of defence to this action were raised by Mr. Ashworth and I will now consider those in case I am wrong on what I regard as the central issue . |
| 6 | I refer to what I regard as the Labour party 's organised disruption of yesterday 's debate . |
| 7 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 8 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 9 | ‘ What I like about the three guys is that they actually care about that . |
| 10 | While I could not afford to buy new books , I get what I like from the local library . |
| 11 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 12 | " From what I know of the previous accounts the Winter Marsh investment — or error of judgment — is one of the main causes of the group 's present financial difficulties . " |
| 13 | ‘ My experience at The Dorchester and what I know from the Four Seasons Inn on the Park ( Four Seasons recently acquired the Regent Group ) , shows me that there is a market which appreciates the best service and is prepared to pay £200 a night and more for it . ’ |
| 14 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 15 | Did you hear what I said about the tall fair man , dear ? " |
| 16 | What I said to the other group , partly because they had a , an hour before the lecture is that I 'll use next week with them , as , as an introduction to the poetry of this period . |
| 17 | What I said to the Prime Minister was that he should answer that part of the question to him that was in order . |
| 18 | What I said at the last committee was I merely advised the committee that if they went ahead in this current financial year that the grant would not be available . |
| 19 | If there were nothing more to it than this , I would only be repeating what I said in the previous chapter about the persistence of facies . |
| 20 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 21 | This is an important part of what I intend by the transnational capitalist class ( TCC ) , but with two important differences . |
| 22 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 23 | Just a means to get what I want with the least amount of trouble . ’ |
| 24 | Well I thought well I 'll , just think about what I want with the last five pounds . |
| 25 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 26 | Figure 1.1 represents what I see as the equivalent for teaching RE and shows how these qualities are related to the attitude of five-fold respect discussed above ( p. 2 ) . |
| 27 | I shall set out what I see as the main objectives and the minefields that lie ahead . |
| 28 | And er what I see of the modern teacher I 'm probably looking out with three different eyes , they do n't seem to come up to the same standing as those men were , at all because one thing that I I remember very vividly about them all , and they were family men , what I call family men . |
| 29 | Eric , I reported to the C E C on Saturday night when presenting the , the Health Service Conference report , that I would be making a detailed report to the next er , meeting of the Public Services Section Committee on resources er , on what I see in the first five month of my er , ten year of office er , what , what we need to do , to play our part in the public service , to extend ourselves within the er , the Health Service . |
| 30 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |