Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man , back from Spain , addresses her in tones that approximate to what the Independent thought was the ‘ well-educated voice ’ , and to what the Guardian thought was the ‘ assured accent ’ , transmitted by the Intelligence chief responsible for the shooting of the IRA bombers in Gibraltar which preceded the arrival of the novel . |
| 2 | The initial check , Gilmont says , is designed to determine if the bill is coherent ; if in fact , it belongs to the bank , and if it shows an amount that corresponds to what the bank expected to be billed . |
| 3 | The campaign to achieve a healthy teeange nation calls on more guidance for teachers and parents to recognise the trouble signs and listen to what the teenagers say . |
| 4 | So a young man really has to get initiated and conform to what the elders expect if he 's going to have any reproductive success at all and that 's exactly what happens . |
| 5 | However , so insistent was the man , saying his message was a matter of life or death , that Meredith 's mother finally agreed to go to his room to see if he would emerge and listen to what the messenger had to say . |
| 6 | give 'em a go , let's go and sit and listen to what the bloke says |
| 7 | Firstly , there are the so-called pronouns of laziness ( Geach , 1962 : 125ff ) , as in Karttunen 's well-known sentence ( see Lyons , 1977a : 673ff ) : ( 93 ) The man who gave his paycheck to his wife was wiser than the man who gave it to his mistress where it is not co-referential with his paycheck , but refers to what a repetition of that NP would have referred to ( namely the paycheck of the man whose mistress got it ) if it had occurred in place of it . |
| 8 | It is worth noting that a number of subjects did not answer the b question in terms of truth or falsehood of fact , but according to what the speaker , in asking the preceding question , had appeared to presuppose . |
| 9 | Of course , by ‘ nation ’ Rousseau meant no more than the people in a locality as opposed to what the word came to mean , the inhabitants of an established State . |
| 10 | Well Mr er Deputy Speaker I er do n't wish to er follow the honourable member of one of my er neighbours but I actually think it 's really part of grown up politics to ensure that the political opinion of a nation is adequately represented in the forums of that nation whether it be in this place or in the European er parliament and to that extent I make no bones about it that erm I wish that we were debating a different electoral system and Mr Deputy Speaker going back to the minister 's introduction erm it is a fact , I did n't wish to intervene because I did n't , it 's a short debate and I did n't want to take up er extra time , but it is a fact is it not that our electoral system unique across Europe means that our deadline as opposed to what the French are going to do is different to all the other member states . |