Example sentences of "what [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What impresses more about this Nissan is its handling ability . |
| 2 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 3 | This evaluation highlighted one of the points made in Chapter 2 : what goes on between components is as important as what goes on within any component . |
| 4 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 5 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 6 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General . |
| 10 | Mexico apart ( and for domestic reasons no American government can ignore Mexico ) , the administration is not much bothered with what goes on in Latin America . |
| 11 | Nobody knows what goes on in these places . |
| 12 | And er , they are actually a good description of what goes on in those departments and those that relate to these procedures . |
| 13 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
| 14 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 15 | I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’ |
| 16 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 17 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 18 | Much of what matters most in religious experience and belief is personal and private . |
| 19 | Conversation , comparing what happens today with earlier times helps to focus on the present . |
| 20 | What happens eventually in eastern Europe will also present just as much difficulty for our farmers . |
| 21 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 22 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 23 | What leads up to this actualization is not specified , the very fact of something having led to it constituting that which is judged negatively by the speaker . |
| 24 | But having it dished up twice in just 19 days — in what seems suspiciously like identical form — seems to be going it a bit . |
| 25 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 26 | ‘ What shines out of this show is Dario Fo 's love of humanity and truth ’ Michael Billington , The Guardian |
| 27 | What shines out of these photographs is her bravery . |
| 28 | For what remains throughout of central interest and importance are the ontological claims expressed in such propositions , and to say that such propositions communicate certain characteristics of relevant concepts does little to explain the meaning of such claims . |
| 29 | What does all of this ferment mean for multimedia development ? |
| 30 | What comes out of those films is his willingness to do films . |