Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 2 | Advice on Savings — how best to look after what you can afford to save . |
| 3 | I expected it to be either genetics or haematology , after what you must have seen this morning . ’ |
| 4 | How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ? |
| 5 | It had been a convenient fiction to smooth the path towards what he must have seen as their inevitable destiny in that great , soft bed . |
| 6 | It is also considering what it can do to meet the demand for more information by such measures as explanatory videos , evening classes or workplace clinics . |
| 7 | In fact this difference is not usually of much consequence because in both cases the practical strengths are well below what they ought to be . |
| 8 | This has the effect of reducing both public expenditure and the budget deficit below what they would otherwise have been . |
| 9 | Interruptions in her employment experience , reductions in her mobility and labour market bargaining power are all ways in which family responsibilities reduce women 's pay below what it might have been . |
| 10 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 11 | This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly . |
| 12 | The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed . |
| 13 | below what it should be and that we are asking single-person households , on average , to subsidise households of two or more persons in the payment of the council tax . |
| 14 | And as you 'd expect from Enterprise , all these prices are well below what you would pay in resort anyway . |
| 15 | To gain that knowledge means we must not be afraid of what we may uncover within our nature in this process of self-analysis . |
| 16 | Thus we have the impression of what we may call a ‘ sacred history ’ , threaded through history : the history of the liberation of people . |
| 17 | This exodus was mainly caused by the anti-Communist attitude of their priests : and most of all by the new premier of what we may now call South Vietnam , Ngo Dinh Diem . |
| 18 | But many interviews carried out in social research are of samples of what we might call ‘ ordinary ’ people — people who have characteristics , opinions and knowledge of a much more general nature . |
| 19 | It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary . |
| 20 | Originally 254cm ( 100in ) and since made at 3/4 size 198cm ( 78in ) , the Spinoff also contributed to the arrival of what we might call third generation stunters by its eventual introduction of stand-off struts . |
| 21 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
| 22 | In this respect , however , Reynolds 's Newspaper had devised an interesting prototype of what we might nowadays call ‘ anomie theory ’ , arguing that crime was an inevitable result of the system of distribution of wealth and opportunity . |
| 23 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 24 | He , too , is constrained in his interpretation by past similar experience , by interpreting in the light of what we might call the principle of analogy . |
| 25 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 26 | We certainly do n't want to do without it if others have it , for fear of what we might be missing , but if we all gave it up — Mr Vansitart , because the human race has invented TV does n't mean we have to put up with it . |
| 27 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that , if my account of neoteny in man is correct , even the relatively ego-less citizen of the totalitarian state is the possessor of what we might term the neurophysiological substrate of the ego and the superego , which almost certainly comprises some of the most recently acquired elements of the human brain . |
| 28 | I 'd be much more impressed by some positive suggestions of what we might do cos I th you know , months ago I was browbeaten outside church over a lot of similar issues and I said then , you know |
| 29 | Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification . |
| 30 | Hall and Davidoff have studied Victorian domestic ideology ; they have shown the importance of that ideology to an understanding of what we might now consider to be a " natural " division between public and private spheres based on a supposedly " natural " division between the sexes . |