Example sentences of "[prep] what [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has done brilliantly , considering what a bad injury he had and he has set a lot of people talking . |
| 2 | Kate borrows a copy of What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know , by Gail Sforza Brewer and Tom Brewer , MD . |
| 3 | Decides to hide copy of What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know . |
| 4 | In other words , in the contrast between a humanities and a science and technological education , there was an underlying gulf in the conceptions of what a higher education stood for ; and it was Snow 's failure to recognize that that lay at the heart of Leavis ' attack on Snow 's association of the two cultures . ’ |
| 5 | An accomplished traveller , linguist , and student of natives ways , unmasker ( in 1924 ) of a Mahdist plot to eject the British from Northern Nigeria , Palmer was in every way Clifford 's idea of what a colonial administrator ought to be . |
| 6 | ‘ In either case it is important to realize that the anthropologist 's academic and cultural expectations determine in part his notions of what a rounded view of a way of life is . |
| 7 | They want to get on with the job , and are afraid of what a former Archbishop of York , Stuart Blanch , has described as ‘ analysis paralysis ’ setting in . |
| 8 | During election night itself , we were reminded of what a splendid performer Robin Day is . |
| 9 | It reminds me of what a decorative caterer can do with a carrot . |
| 10 | There is no clear , positive , and agreed definition of what a comprehensive school is . |
| 11 | There never has en one simple view of what a comprehensive school is or should be , nor was there any single ideological thrust behind even the rapid development of the 1960s . |
| 12 | Their work radically challenged the very definition of what a finished picture could be . |
| 13 | ‘ He is the model of what a retired cricketer should be — a white haired , white whiskered , florid country gentlemen , close upon his three score years and ten , comfortably off , well-informed , and interested in and full of information about cricket in general , his own shire and town in particular where he is much respected . ’ |
| 14 | But most was not at such a high level , was concentrated within the last six or seven generations which ( as Peters notably argues ) was the limit of what a contemporary grandfather could tell as ‘ what my grandfather told me ’ , or ‘ what my father told me about his grandfather ’ ( Peters , 1970 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ We must never lose sight of what a tremendous weapon being cost competitive is for ensuring the survival of jobs and businesses . ’ |
| 16 | The nearest , the Queen 's Head , was very much a brewery 's idea of what a traditional English pub should look like . |
| 17 | But defining the basic nature of the managerial role reveals only part of what a managerial layer means . |
| 18 | The judge clearly adopted the right test — was this mother 's decision in the circumstances of the case within the bank of what a reasonable mother would do — and he was entitled to say ‘ No , it was not ’ . |
| 19 | The court has to decide whether the mother 's refusal was outside the band of what a reasonable mother might do . |
| 20 | He adopted the right test and asked whether in the circumstances this mother 's decision was within the band of what a reasonable mother would do . |
| 21 | And should be chucked by those who still have some idea of what a good society should be . |
| 22 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 23 | Yet in Roman law discretion is regularly interpreted not on the subjective criterion of an individual 's own opinion but on the objective standard of what a good man would think in the circumstances . |
| 24 | Annabelle is a beautiful bride , Steven is a handsome husband , and both come from secure family homes where their parents have set examples of what a good marriage should be . |
| 25 | They will disagree in some cases because they disagree about the likely consequences of a particular rule , and in others because they have different visions of what a good community is like . |
| 26 | Here , too , Nazi propaganda had succeeded in good measure in inculcating into large sections of the population the fear of what a new defeat would bring . |
| 27 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 28 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 29 | We 've also developed some sense of patterns of timing — a sense of what a typical week and a typical term might look like for the learner . |
| 30 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |