Example sentences of "[det] [prep] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 2 | They know little about what they are being asked to invest in , but they do believe that the Government 's determination to make the privatisation succeed will ensure that the water authorities are presented as a steal . |
| 3 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 4 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 5 | Can I ask you Professor Lock to say a little about what you consider the housing implications of such a policy might be ? |
| 6 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 7 | a nap is that about what you wanted ? |
| 8 | I mean this is I er er there , there is a , a fundamental problem here I think th that i if you do the calculations in terms of how many calories per amount of grain it does seem that , that for what we regard as being an adequate diet and then again it 's a diet which is not being supplemented by meat okay there will be some vegetables but basically it 's grain , you , you do need somewhere between six and seven hundred . |
| 9 | They could turn out that for what it 'd cost us to tile them ! |
| 10 | How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ? |
| 11 | It may be more honest to face this for what it is . |
| 12 | He recognises this for what it is — solid confirmation of the Government 's determination to invest in the defence of our country . |
| 13 | ‘ And I 'll take this for what I 'm owed , ’ I said , and picked up the cloth of papers . |
| 14 | Erm and that is not half as what it was last year . |
| 15 | put erm all this about what you think force is |
| 16 | Erm and you know and I the thing that erm used to worry me maybe sometimes , was the acceptance of this as what they should be having . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm ashamed carrying on like this after what you 've been through , ’ she began , but suddenly there was another tremendous crash and roar . |
| 18 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 19 | She does n't understand half of what we say but she listens all the time . |
| 20 | We have n't used or worn half of what we have brought . |
| 21 | But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have . |
| 22 | Well that is n't bloody half of what we paid . |
| 23 | As credit is now so central to people 's lives — financing as it does something approaching half of what they buy , other than day-to-day necessities — and as choice of credit arrangements is increasingly diverse and complex , people by the time they leave school should be equipped to deal sensibly with it . |
| 24 | Do n't listen to half of what they say . |
| 25 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 26 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
| 27 | Taking into account both the virtual disappearance of explicit commissions and the shrinking of spreads , it is evident that dealing costs , for the most part , are now appreciably less than half of what they were prior to the reforms of October 1986 . |
| 28 | And that , said the advertiser , was ‘ almost certainly around half of what you pay now ( the total cost of £17,469.12 Will be reduced on early settlement ) . |
| 29 | So virtually half of what you produced would go to the landlord . |
| 30 | ‘ You can live free in my house , and give me half of what you earn . ’ |