Example sentences of "what [verb] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What matters from the functional point of view is analogy : carrying out comparable functions .
2 IF TASMANIA COULD BE REGARDED as a microcosm of what to expect from the great continent of Australia , Gould 's exhilaration as he sailed towards Sydney could not , understandably , have been higher .
3 They stood before it in perplexity , Edward banging his head against the plastic hood , and tried to work out what to do from the illustrative diagram shown , like foreign tourists .
4 Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants .
5 What follows from the normal range of experience depends very much on the effects produced by the child 's altered condition on the parents and , in turn , by the way in which their parental reaction impinges on the child .
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