Example sentences of "[prep] what we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is odd to reflect that the firmest objective record of what we experienced now lies in the films — themselves mere illusory genii of chemicals and light , bound to 400-foot reels of processed trees and silver . |
| 2 | It was much deeper and bigger than most of what we pick up on screens , our primary source of entertainment today . |
| 3 | But much of what we throw away can be recycled and used again . |
| 4 | By the year 2000 , local authorities must recycle 25 per cent of what we throw away . |
| 5 | Most of what we throw away goes into holes in the ground . |
| 6 | A lot of what we throw away has been made from raw materials which are not renewable . |
| 7 | In fact , eighty per cent of what we throw away could have been used again : that means that , out of every five dustbins of " rubbish " , four contain valuable recyclable materials . |
| 8 | Erm having produced that report and having erm er done the follow up on it , it does n't seem to me that it would be reasonable for the general assembly to expect that the Board would come back year after year with repetitions of what we 've already said , and that 's why the commissioner notices that erm we do n't report this year on child abuse . |
| 9 | I 'll try my best to respond to most of what we 've already heard this morning . |
| 10 | erm if we ca n't satisfy him in terms of what we 've already submitted to the panel satisfy him in in terms of our actions . |
| 11 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 12 | He sees consciousness as a more subtle form of matter and movement and the source of what we perceive both of the external world and of ourselves , our so-called inner processes lying in the non-manifest , pre-physical realm . |
| 13 | He believes it important to be seen to be a good community person and to put back in some of what we take out . |
| 14 | Three , four years ago the seeds of what we know today as desktop publishing were being sown by companies like Xerox , Interleaf , Sun and Apollo . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that it contains a remarkably comprehensive account of what we know now about the weather and its causes in these islands , including what can be done with satellite observations . |
| 16 | Er well er a l a lot of my time has been spent in another context er as Secretary of er Residents Against the Motorway which is er an all-party thing er but we 've er we 've also taken some action as er a political party as well in that er fairly early on sixth of July ninety two er we we wrote to er Nick Harvey who is er MP who is our Transport Spokesman er and we gave him some er initial details er of the scheme er to which he er replied erm reminding us of what we knew already which was the Lib Dems ' transport pali policy in application to roads . |
| 17 | Pocock 's method of ‘ shifting the belly band ’ or adjusting the bridle link position was not what we currently accept as a 2-line system.That described by J.Woodbridge Davis in Aeronautics of August 1894 for his method of steering a life-saving device undoubtedly was a progenitor of what we use today . |
| 18 | Of course , it is true that outside the small clearing of what we know lies the unexplored forest of what we do not know . |
| 19 | The deeper reason for our doubt — and faith — is that even what we know rests only on the foundations of what we do not know . |
| 20 | In modern times we have effectively eliminated possibility 3 by incorporating it within our scheme : Quantum mechanics is essentially a theory of what we do not know and can not predict . |
| 21 | of what we do not mean , up against the skin , |
| 22 | what I suggest is these procedures are , we briefly mentioned this this morning , are supposed to reflect the best practice of what we do now . |
| 23 | While I am all for buying British , very little of what we buy here today is entirely British . |
| 24 | Much of what we see today dates from their time : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers , two round and two square ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the might circular donjon surrounded by its own moat , and on the east side a great hall and chapel . |
| 25 | Smith disparages our claim to be printing material hitherto available only in medical literature , maintaining that much of what we print regularly appears in the national newspapers and magazines . |
| 26 | Talk to him , tell him all the details of what we have here and see what he says . |
| 27 | As one would expect , the reaction is in some ways likely to be the opposite of what we have just described . |
| 28 | Much of what we have just talked about may seem far beyond our reach or experience yet , but it comforts us to believe that no exigency of life can ever rob the believer of accepting its transcendence as well as its immanence . |
| 29 | One man completely self-assured ( in the psychological sense ) is not a contradiction of what we have just said any more than what we have just said about uncertainty ( in the epistemological sense ) reduces all men to the level of mumbling irresolution . |
| 30 | If the computer 's field of activity is limited to our planet , and if our fate depends on it alone , then we can not count on anything after death except some permutation of what we have already experienced in life ; we shall again encounter similar landscapes and beings . |