Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what he does a bloody lot for |
| 2 | The Secretary of State repeated several times that we need such a scale of weaponry to provide what he calls a credible deterrent . |
| 3 | Now he works from what he calls a glorified shed . |
| 4 | Mr Stern has not flinched from talking to buyers , sellers , advisers , consultants , accountants , friends , farmers and agents in his determination to buy at what he considers a reasonable price . |
| 5 | Whatever the right labels , the attitudinist agrees that no properly ethical expression can be adequately defined in purely naturalistic or even metaphysical terms but offers what he thinks a better explanation of this fact than the invocation of non-natural properties , namely that such definitions ignore valuational or emotive meaning . |
| 6 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 7 | Interrupted by what he terms a second wave of moral regeneration and repression in the nineteenth century , it resumes its onward march from the 1860s , to the present . |
| 8 | In 1982 the company gave what it calls a QI award , and preferential treatment , to suppliers that scored 85 or above . |
| 9 | Roger Sippl 's latest venture is now official : ProActive Software Inc has been created to develop and market what it calls a new generation of enterprise-wide customer information resource management systems . |
| 10 | Roger Sippl 's latest venture , ProActive Software Inc , Mountain View , California ( UX No 394 ) , has now launched its first product — what it calls a new generation of enterprise-wide Customer Information Resource management systems . |
| 11 | It is interesting that the Labour party proposes to return to what it calls a fair rates policy . |
| 12 | I tell you what we have n't got onto at all yet , and it 's something I said we would try and talk about wh which is what what makes a good parent ? |