Example sentences of "what this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to find out more of what this writer thinks about imitation , we are in a position to consult a work by him where a treatise on the subject is developed at intervals and where he writes in propria persona . |
| 2 | Look mate , what this country needs is someone to look up to . |
| 3 | Have to get to grips with what this does to the image . |
| 4 | Do you know what this could be ? |
| 5 | You 've no idea what this means to me . |
| 6 | What this adds up to , then , is the claim that if there existed an organism which either could not act or whose actions made no difference to its perceptions then not only would that organism not be cognisant , it could never become cognisant . |
| 7 | What this means , of course , is that functionalists do not see consciousness as a defining feature of the mental . |
| 8 | However Skinner ( 1957 ) writes of verbal behaviour as being ‘ under the control of extremely subtle properties ’ of a stimulus , but never clarifies what this might mean . |
| 9 | People of my generation were brought up to admire the sacrifice of life and happiness for others , the hope that we can live up to what this means in ordinary , dull practice . |
| 10 | It 's a good enough excuse that you need to check for gaffs , but the real reason for dry-assembly is to see what this hitherto fictitious table looks like . |
| 11 | I think I know what this might mean , or what it might be made to mean . |
| 12 | In short , what this has to do with modern poetry is very clear ; what it has to do with modern criticism is not clear at all , since that criticism has , as we have seen , no vocabulary for dealing with it , and moves further and further from finding such a vocabulary , the more it takes its lead from linguisticians like Saussure and Jakobson . |
| 13 | However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 14 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |
| 15 | What this really means is a fixed exchange rate system without capital controls . |
| 16 | Thus Tony Benn , in June 1975 and three months into his tenure as Secretary of State for Industry , summed up what this volume is all about — his vain attempt to persuade government and Civil Service to implement Labour Party policy and bring about an irreversible shift of power and wealth to the working class . |
| 17 | What this power has meant to the scientific and industrial users involved in the ECSP was made apparent during the project 's second annual seminar last month . |
| 18 | Mr Ford has shown an absence of leadership and an absence of grasp of what this country is and what it ought to be . ’ |
| 19 | What this suggests is that if the demonizing of the deviant other leads to suppression and even extermination , the colonizing of the deviant involves an assimilation which re-forms , ethically and literally , even as it re-presents . |
| 20 | That 's what this Government is all about . ' |
| 21 | What this rejection consists in , however , is less than clear . |
| 22 | What this difference meant was that , according to the earlier works , the same complex relation between ideas , institutions , relations of productions , and technology applied to all societies , while , according to The Origin , a different theory applied to primitive societies . |
| 23 | A clue as to what this might be comes from our personal experience if we attempt to miss a night 's sleep and stay up all night ( fig 1.2 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I regard your book as practically the only one that I have ever come across , since Dante , that shows the slightest understanding of what this very peculiar identity of love and religion means , ’ Williams wrote , signing himself ‘ Very gratefully yours ’ . |
| 25 | Different books of the New Testament have different ways of describing the indescribable , that is , the nature of Christ , and the first three centuries of Christendom are a history of ceaseless dispute among the most learned doctors of the Church as to what this nature was , and how it was made manifest during the period of the Incarnation . |
| 26 | Hepworth justified poaching from literature because of ‘ the advantage of a well-made plot , which was not at all easy to come by in original film scenarios ’ , but what this ignores is the responsibility of producers like him to foster the writing skills which would end British cinema 's reliance on the novel or play , and novelistic or theatrical styles of storytelling . |
| 27 | What this means is that good old fashioned self-reliance could become a new health vogue of the Nineties . |
| 28 | But his shadow , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ The fact is that what this Government has adopted is the policy of the three o'clock knock by police . ’ |
| 29 | Indeed , at root , that is what this dismal affair is all about . |
| 30 | Indeed , at root , that is what this dismal affair is all about . |