Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Might there not be a case for putting the initial interview in the hands of an educational psychologist skilled in eliciting a history without being committed to what the social workers revealingly call ‘ disclosure ’ ? ' , he suggested . |
| 3 | But these descriptions should be confined to what the heroine sees after her adventure had begun , and in them you want to aim for reality without its customary tackiness . |
| 4 | We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think . |
| 5 | who can not be beguiled by what the world of desire can offer . |
| 6 | It is understandable that the public , disillusioned by what the system produces , find it easy to blame the producers . |
| 7 | Once TOPIC and SEAQ screens had been introduced into a firm , the dealer could check what approximate price he ought to be getting , to be varied by what the firm took off or added to quote its price " net " of commission . |
| 8 | That will eventually be superseded by what the company is positioning as an open , enterprise-wide repository embracing not only the Informix database , but its Hewlett-Packard Co-derived ToolBus Open CASE environment and 4GL products . |
| 9 | Therefore , in campaigns a party attempts less to attract these voters than to ensure that they are not repelled by what the party advocates . |
| 10 | The implication is that sovereignty is not worth having , since we are totally constrained by what the Germans do anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
| 12 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 13 | In contrast to a conventional revolutionary , Jesus must be seen as what the Gospels themselves acknowledge him to be — a claimant to the throne of David , a rightful king , whose sceptre , like David 's , implied both spiritual and temporal sovereignty . |
| 14 | They were deluged with what the French call le corbeau , poison-pen letters accusing neighbours , business competitors and colleagues of everything from listening to the BBC to being an active resistant ( of whom there were , in fact , very few indeed until the eve of the Liberation ) . |
| 15 | If you are to succeed as Chairman you must be well versed in what the committee 's task is supposed to be . |
| 16 | Kendall ( 1986 ) reminds us that accidents in infancy are related to what the child can do , so are related to stage of development , and quotes the relative incidence : |
| 17 | Occasionally a thin savage streak of wiry blue hinted at what the storm could really do if it tried . |
| 18 | Sylvie gazed at him queerly , thought about what the woman had said . |
| 19 | Here 's what I did : just at the moment the tears were about to gush out over the waterproof liner , taking the soft lenses in a Niagara-like descent towards the jawbone , I looked at a poster or a newspaper and thought about what the words meant . |
| 20 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 21 | However , because of the limitations in the design of the study it was not clear to what extent the link between subjective risk and recall was caused by less interesting factors such as the type of memory test used , the fact that risk ratings were previously given by the drivers , and the expectations subjects may have had of what the study was about . |
| 22 | There had been an inquest and the coroner had dwelt with what the family considered unnecessary emphasis on the theft of the car and the woman 's motives for driving recklessly about the countryside at the dead of night . |
| 23 | But there are other lessons to be drawn from what the war makes visible — in the image of a desert war bogged down in muddy trenches worthy of the Somme in the wettest Saudi winter in memory or in the prophetic footage of cormorants drowning in the worst oil disaster yet recorded . |
| 24 | These , taken together with inferences drawn from what the rebels did , go some way to explaining why the revolt took place . |
| 25 | The latter must give their departmental organisations purpose and direction but this must be rooted in what the authority as a whole is trying to do' ( 1988 , pp. 14 — 15 ) . |
| 26 | Mr Major refused to be drawn on what the two men had agreed but the US is expected to announce soon that a special envoy rather than a ‘ peace ’ envoy will be sent to Ulster . |
| 27 | It 's ‘ been hyped beyond what the company can deliver , ’ it says , pointing to the failure to produce 200MHz Alphas in volume . |
| 28 | The Conservatives handed out the Greens ' fairly innocuous version of the 1989 Queen 's Speech gratis , too , in the belief that it was time the public had their eyes opened to what the party was really about . |
| 29 | questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable . |
| 30 | Compared with what the humble pound sterling can buy in neighbouring English-speaking countries , like Ghana , prices border on the outrageous . |