Example sentences of "what [be] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |
| 2 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 3 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 4 | Whatever the temptation to make films with what Robert Wagner called ‘ a strong sociological punch ’ there was never any danger that the studios would move away from what were regarded as the essentials of a Hollywood film . |
| 5 | The I was n't talking about what were included in the calculations , what I was talking about and we may be at cross purposes for that reason is what the policy provides for . |
| 6 | I 've never felt threatened by these images and certainly never felt compelled to buy what 's represented in the advertisements . |
| 7 | Portraiture has a namby-pamby ‘ not-quite- serious-art ’ reputation , because of what 's wanted of the painters . ’ |
| 8 | We can use the technique of spotlighting , focusing attention on one group 's work : " Look what 's happening on the farms . " |
| 9 | what 's happening with the tomatoes is that tomatoes where they gone ? |
| 10 | ‘ What 's happening with the negotiations , Mahmoud ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I say what 's happening with the Bloods and the Crips is the same thing that 's happening with the protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland , which is the same thing that 's happening in South Africa where different tribes fight each other . |
| 12 | Neil could you tell me what 's happening to the apprentices in P S A as work staff been put out to grass I hope they are n't . |
| 13 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 14 | It 's best run full screen , as well , since running it in a window seems only to give you a partial view of the full-screen image , and no scroll bars appear to allow you to see what 's happening in the bits that are n't shown . |
| 15 | My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism . |
| 16 | ‘ There will be a special magazine programme on what 's happening behind the scenes , ’ said Tim . |
| 17 | What 's needed on the railways is real competition , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Staying on the coastal highway , you come in turn to what 's left of the cities of Philadelphia , Baltimore and Washington DC . |
| 19 | There is more to a meal than what 's put on the plates . |
| 20 | And they stare , ca n't stop , they know what is said of the claws , the biting words from her jaws , and a shiver tightens the pores of their hairless flesh . |
| 21 | Labour Members should consider what is said in the parents charter about inspection of schools in Wales . |
| 22 | In Britain , the verbatim parliamentary record of what is said in the Lords and the Commons is possibly the most trusted document one could find . |
| 23 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 24 | There is obviously a complicated relationship between what is printed in the newspapers and what people come to believe , and we would not wish to suggest that people passively and uncritically absorb all that they read there . |
| 25 | The second , by contrast , is a striking use of ministerial authority to influence what is taught in the schools and is indicative of the assertive pursuit of government policy to wield such influence . |
| 26 | If its editors can elicit combative prose from a wider range of directors , future editions could yet provide an antidote to the star-struck hype that makes up most of what is written about the movies . |
| 27 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 28 | I go to many different supermarkets to do my shopping , because you never know what is going through the cashiers ' minds . |
| 29 | What is striking about the refusals in the two extracts above is that both are given immediately , without any pause , and both are met with following laughter . |
| 30 | What is won on the swings is lost on the roundabouts . |