Example sentences of "[prep] what [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if you take the example of the Western , and key Western icons like Clint Eastwood , ’ Wood says , ‘ you can see the films responding to social attitudes in the movement from the early spaghetti westerns to last year 's Unforgiven , where you still have the recognisable Clint Eastwood character , but he 's much more complex , more uncertain about things — about killing , about his motives , the whole notion of what constitutes a hero . ’ |
| 2 | It needs to be acknowledged that Hoyle takes a very wide view of what constitutes a school 's ‘ organisational character ’ or ‘ deep structure ’ . |
| 3 | If there is any standard criterion today of what constitutes a nation with a claim to self-determination , meaning to setting up an independent territorial nation-state , it is ethnic-linguistic , since language is taken , wherever possible , to express and symbolise ethnicity . |
| 4 | Intangible movable property includes a charge on the book debts of the company or those assigned to it but the Act contains no definition of what constitutes a book debt . |
| 5 | The above is a very compressed survey of what constitutes a security interest . |
| 6 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
| 7 | Section 395 contains a generic definition of what constitutes a charge and a partial definition of what constitutes property . |
| 8 | The title of the volume attempts on the one hand to avoid the major archival issue of what constitutes a record , and on the other to broaden the issue of debate from electronic records to include digital information resources generally . |
| 9 | And what living or organic forms of data such as continuous updated accounts , or records of employment or social benefit are preserved Not only does their documentation create a problem , but the intellectual definition of what constitutes a record is clearly troublesome . |
| 10 | So far as the definition of what constitutes a breach of the peace is concerned , however , the decision is less satisfactory . |
| 11 | 4 Breach of the duty The question of what constitutes a breach of the duty of confidentiality falls into two parts . |
| 12 | Their definition of what constitutes a husband , a wife , and a marital relationship will be negotiated . |
| 13 | Together with this unequivocal equivocation Mr Roberts did argue support for positive images , for freedom of the individual , for a wide definition of what constitutes a family , for civilised society ; and he opposed discrimination in schools , the promotion of any kind of sexuality , and the introduction of paedophilia into the debate . |
| 14 | New instructions this year are encouraging umpires to be strict in their interpretation of what constitutes a shot when playing against the spinners . |
| 15 | A more satisfactory theory of what determines a country 's ability to carry foreign debt should be developed allowing for interactions between economic growth , political stability and debt-servicing capacity , and distinguishing between permanent and transitory states of the relevant variables . |
| 16 | The first is that there was a concept of what constituted a trust wording . |
| 17 | Early in the fifteenth century , the problem of what constituted a nation arose as a practical issue at the Council of Constance , and , as might be expected in an assembly which contained many distinguished academics , the issue was debated in theoretical terms , although the original cause of the debate was essentially political . |
| 18 | Lenders were exempt from this legislation if their basic business was banking , insurance , or primarily unconnected with lending ; friendly societies and building societies were subject to other laws ; various other lenders falling outside a commonsense view of what constituted a moneylender were given exemption by the Board of Trade . |
| 19 | Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere . |
| 20 | Then you evaluate it against your own particular conception of what makes a DTP package . |
| 21 | Here then , cutting through all the waffle , is a concise run-down of what makes a board work . |
| 22 | The existence of other gods who turn out to be mere ‘ pretenders ’ to divinity raises the question of what makes a god a God . |
| 23 | There is a much published photograph , taken by the pilot of a small aeroplane , of what looks a bit like the face of Jesus , staring out of the sky . |
| 24 | ONLY by breaking the habit of what seems a lifetime will England this evening jeopardise their hopes of reaching the World Cup in Italy next summer . |
| 25 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 26 | We are not yet in a position , therefore , to replace Marx 's and Engels 's view with a clear alternative specifying under what conditions a society based on slavery is likely to occur , but similarly we can not accept Marx 's and Engels 's theory fully . |
| 27 | This specifies whether the result of an operation is to be shifted , how any carry is to be dealt with , whether the storing of the result is to be suppressed , and under what conditions a skip is to be executed . |
| 28 | She said reluctantly , ‘ Well , very like it , perhaps , ’ and looked up at Carrie with what seemed a kind of apology . |
| 29 | The way I 'm looking at it , either there 's some connection with what happened a couple of hundred years ago or there is n't . |
| 30 | Irina was not crying , but her face was contorted in what seemed a paroxysm of extreme embarrassment , even of fear or revulsion . |