Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London , Eden fell sick and Churchill took over the Foreign Officer , He gave final permission for what the British called Operation Boot to proceed , ( To the CIA it was Operation Ajax ) Churchill sent an even stronger message encouraging the Shah to act against Mossadeq . |
| 2 | I have considerable sympathy for what the two new clauses seek to do . |
| 3 | This established client base for what the Taiwanese call the ‘ first generation ’ artists those who were first inspired by Western modern painting styles and methods , suggested the need for a Taiwan-based secondary market which we , as an auction house , could provide . |
| 4 | I think that there is a majority for what the hon. Gentleman refers to as reform within the United Kingdom when that case commands a majority in the House . |
| 5 | In 1904 , Dunlop paid Kilpatrick £250 for what the latter understood to be his half-share of the Baron 's stud-fee earnings for the season . |
| 6 | ‘ The public is treated with contempt by the art establishment , and there is a huge gap between what the public likes and wants and what is officially accepted as art . |
| 7 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 8 | Three errors involve the change of y to i : cryed , emptyness , tryed ; others show confusion about what the actual prefix or suffix is : full for ful , diss for dis , -d or -t for -ed ( see pages 37–8 ) are the kind of errors made . |
| 9 | As it was , people felt left in the dark about what the weighty causes of such an unusual step might have been , and remained worried about the seriousness of the situation in the east and that in the Reich itself ‘ something is not right ’ , suggesting conflict in the leading positions within the Wehrmacht and dissatisfaction of the Führer with prominent figures at home , whose life-style did not match the gravity of the times . |
| 10 | I shall table a parliamentary question about that and I look forward to confirmation of what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said . |
| 11 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 12 | Again , a clearer indication of what the right sentence in the Crown Court would have been without the discount for the fact that the case was a reference would make the decision more useful . |
| 13 | No indication of what the final result will look like is given as these codes are added , nor is there a preview capability . |
| 14 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 15 | Therefore , the apparent position of a click within a sentence is an indication of what the perceptual units of that sentence are . |
| 16 | Once you 've decided on the amount you need to borrow , you can get an indication of what the gross monthly repayments are likely to be from the tables provided in this booklet for amounts up to £5,000 . |
| 17 | It is even possible to conceive of holding your own in a conversation in which all you do is repeat aspects of what the other person has just said . |
| 18 | Such irony is , inevitably , part of the effect of what the fullest analysis of the narrative structure of the French fabliaux published to date , that of Mary Jane Stearns Schenk ( 1987 ) , finds to be an indispensable element in the fabliaux : a deception played by one or more characters on one or more other characters followed by a misdeed committed by the deceiver(s) . |
| 19 | In the light of what the right hon. Gentleman has just said , perhaps he will tell us two things : how much extra would he provide for health , and where does health come in Labour 's order of priorities ? |
| 20 | The detail of the Act and regulations made under it will be discussed later , in chapter 6 , in the light of what the main body of this report will show about how consumers think of and use credit . |
| 21 | He ushered in a new era in the study of religion and of theology ; he brought a new conception of what the disciplined and ordered study of both could be ; he underlined in epoch-making fashion the importance of the subjective aspect of religious awareness , pointing to what lies deeper than intellectual formulations , yet is not reducible to inchoate and diffuse ‘ feelings ’ ; he attempted to grasp and express in an original and modern way the abiding significance of Jesus , and to uncover the living and personal meaning of what were in danger of being dismissed as merely the fossilised accretions of doctrine . |
| 22 | Only one investor found the nerve to find fault with what the vast majority considered to be an excellent performance in 1991 . |
| 23 | In late April or early May rocket fuel leaked into the White Sea in the Soviet Arctic , killing 100,000 seals and millions of other marine animals in what the Soviet newspaper Izvestya called " an ecological tragedy of huge proportions " . |
| 24 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The Great Leader ’ was given the new title as 22 million North Koreans prepared to enjoy lavish birthday festivities in what the official media called ‘ the biggest national holiday ever ’ . |
| 26 | The young doctor learns a great deal from what the older doctor is , not simply what he says or does , and from the sub-culture of the little group of medical students to which he or she belongs . |
| 27 | But Mr Kilfoyle told the health boss : ‘ Your colleagues if not yourself will be well aware of my opposition to what the Regional Health Authority is doing on behalf of the most despised government in living memory . |
| 28 | Thanks to what the Chinese call ‘ connectology ’ , however , some have found ways round this and other restrictions . |
| 29 | Even as late as June 1990 , the Zimbabwean President publicly expressed his disbelief at what the ungrateful Romanians had done at Christmas 1989 to his former honoured guests — but then he was still bent on making his country into a one-party state according to the tried and trusted recipe . |
| 30 | There should be some monitoring of what the statutory agencies were doing in relation to West Belfast . |