Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope . |
| 2 | This conflict of interest may undermine our patients ' trust that our decisions on whether or not to treat , investigate , or refer are based solely on their needs rather than on what the fund can afford . |
| 3 | Because of what the news-reader was saying . |
| 4 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 5 | Endill was a little suspicious of Mould , not because of what the Headmaster had said , but because his eyes glowed with a life of their own , as if there was something burning inside his head . |
| 6 | But , the report took three years to publish because of what the unit calls ‘ political discussions ’ . |
| 7 | We have already discussed this in relation to the acute anxiety spiral but it is well worth repeating that avoidance , prior to encountering the full experience of the feared situation , occurs because of what the person believes is going to happen . |
| 8 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 9 | The exaction in this case was accordingly unlawful not because of what the corporation did but because of what the plaintiff did not do . |
| 10 | The exaction in this case was accordingly unlawful not because of what the corporation did but because of what the plaintiff did not do . |
| 11 | Do I want to teach after all ? ’ and this is because of what the others say to you , the more experienced teachers . |
| 12 | Those who may at some stage look at VSEL 's order books may care to consider that , even if the fourth submarine is constructed , the consequences for employment in such constituencies will remain severe because of what the Government have done in relation to naval and submarine construction . |
| 13 | In Bangkok , where he had served as governor , Chamlong was deeply respected because of what the Financial Times of May 8 described as " his uncompromising piety and idealism " . |
| 14 | Because of what the er effect is in the calculations and again we we could go into that in some detail if wanted to . |
| 15 | Oh Sarah is suggesting disapproval because because of what the baby in the photo if you like would be subjected to like a photograph album . |
| 16 | This domination eventually came more because of what the forwards were doing when they had not won possession as when they had . |
| 17 | Any true democracy of the sort that you might have in a university , if you do , is really impossible in schools and that one reason because of what the law says , the other reason of course is the age of the people you 're dealing with . |
| 18 | As for what the head contains , well , yes , Johnny needs some of the things that live in there : will , desire , perversity . |
| 19 | Instead of using It ( a cleft structure ) , an identifying theme places an element in theme position by turning it into a nominalization using a wh-structure ( called a pseudo-cleft structure ) , as in What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity , or What was received by the book in China was a great deal of publicity . |
| 20 | The book is prefaced by a quotation from William Faulkner 's The Bear , in which McCaslin says ( in response to uncertainty as to what the poem they were discussing meant ) , ‘ He had to talk about something . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 22 | The ‘ catch ’ is that , even though the time when something is done is decided by the volunteer , he has no cues from clocks , television , or other humans as to what the time really is . |
| 23 | Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ? |
| 24 | There is clearly no general agreement within the education system as to what the functions of the headteacher are ; it therefore becomes difficult , if not impossible , to generate criteria for effectiveness . |
| 25 | He had the look of an old man waiting outside the doctor 's office in a paupers ' hospital ; sent for , rather than there by choice ; content to wait ; apathetic as to what the doctor would tell him , because good news no longer existed and bad news was no longer bad , but merely an essential ingredient of his condition . |
| 26 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 27 | If one activity needs to be very closely content-focused ( maybe , for example , at the opening of the topic where the children are put clearly in the picture as to what the topic is to be about ) , another needs to be constructed to allow pupil exploratory work . |
| 28 | In countries where the practice is officially , if apologetically , accepted , as in Sierra Leone , Zambia or Botswana , revised timings are provided in the official syllabus , but there exists no guide as to what the teacher is to leave out from an already overloaded syllabus . |
| 29 | Although she had no suspicions of Tamar 's interest in Gareth Davis , she had noticed a suppressed excitement in her mistress of late and worried as to what the cause could be . |
| 30 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |