Example sentences of "[prep] what [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After what happened last night ? |
| 2 | ‘ After what happened last time , ’ she replied . |
| 3 | The question of what constitutes confidential information was addressed by Lord Greene MR in Saltman Engineering Co Ltd v. |
| 4 | Its documentation is very idiosyncratic , and clearly reflects Crew 's own ideas of what constitutes good text . |
| 5 | Teachers often feel they have a wider view of what constitutes good education than do many parents , who are stereotyped as being over-concerned with ‘ uniform , discipline and exam results ’ . |
| 6 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 7 | Instead , comparison of progress with a checklist of internationally agreed good practice would be more helpful , though of course , knowledge of what constitutes good practice can only emerge after experience has accumulated . |
| 8 | This is a personal perspective which is a considered opinion drawn from eighteen months of researches and over a hundred interviews , and built upon my own experiences over twenty years of what constitutes good science . |
| 9 | The first is that the question of what constitutes great creativity , at least , is still left open to debate . |
| 10 | Some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour . |
| 11 | The restraint of trade doctrine is , therefore , an aspect of public policy and before relying on older authorities it must be remembered that the perception of what constitutes public policy may change . |
| 12 | One correspondent , however , sees little evidence today of an agreed understanding of what constitutes monastic music or even that the music of the monastic tradition is above all the vehicle for its prayer . |
| 13 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 14 | Within these limits , of what does parliamentary privilege consist ? |
| 15 | The answer lies in the provision of a structured Church and in the definition of what constituted heretical belief . |
| 16 | The legal concept of what constituted riotous assembly had proved utterly inadequate to the complexities of modem politics . |
| 17 | This discussion if we may call it that — was part of a wider , on-going debate of what constituted true nobility . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman is really behaving disgracefully — — when he accuses British Rail of negligence before an inquiry has even begun , and when he has not the slightest idea of what caused that accident . |
| 19 | Within minutes of the prime ministers sitting down at 4.15 p.m. , we had constructed the wording of what became Early Day Motion number 174 , and which read as follows : |
| 20 | There there was the message of Marcus Garvey , whose writings and activities before and after the First World War laid the foundations of what became Black Power . |
| 21 | He finished up as Programme controller and deputy managing director of ATV , laying the foundations for much of what became Central Television . |
| 22 | Once he saw a great swirling mass of gulls and rooks over a messy area of what seemed upturned soil and rubbish . |
| 23 | Our experience of what happens one earth when very superior culture groups meet very inferior culture groups is rather alarming . |
| 24 | Is this flying in the face of what makes good cinema ? ’ |
| 25 | When we consider the dominance of collectivism as an explanation of what makes Japanese experience unique , we do need to emphasize that this is not simply a characteristic of Western or American writing , but many Japanese social scientists have echoed this explanation in their attempts to identify the sources of consensus in Japanese society . |
| 26 | Fourth , and lastly , feminist psychologists try to get a more balanced picture of what established psychological sex differences mean . |
| 27 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 28 | After it , says Hobbes , our thoughts should turn to what is , in effect , mechanics : ‘ the consideration of what effects one body moved worketh upon another . ’ |
| 29 | Does not this inclination arise from his believing in the goodness , the worth , of what has this property and from his belief that its goodness is an important ethical truth ? |
| 30 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |