Example sentences of "[det] [prep] what the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel tried to slot this into what the new death was all about ; she was deeply troubled . |
| 2 | For he suggests that parliamentary democracy is an egalitarian way of deciding certain policy issues , such as what the criminal laws of a community should be ( Dworkin , 1978a , p. 258 ) , and elsewhere , in respect of a more restricted class of ( moral ) policy issues , he has this to say : ‘ Under certain circumstances that issue should be left to democratic institutions to decide , not because a legislature or parliament will necessarily be correct , but because that is a fair way , in these circumstances , to decide moral issues about which reasonable and fair people disagree ’ ( Dworkin , 1981 , p. 208 ) . |
| 3 | Much of what the latter says about information theory , feedback and signal detection is old hat , but he generously leaves us one or two bones to pick . |
| 4 | However , much of what the new Scottish Festival Singers did was disappointing . |
| 5 | I agreed with much of what the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) said at the beginning of his speech , but I did not go along with his closing remarks . |
| 6 | I do not dissent from much of what the hon. Member for Wakefield said about members of the Prison Officers Association . |
| 7 | We on this side of the House agree with much of what the hon. Member for Oxford , East ( Mr. Smith ) said . |
| 8 | It is true that contractual accountability may be viewed as an alternative to political accountability , but much of what the voluntary sector does is not capable of precise measurement for inclusion in a contract . |
| 9 | I agree very much with what the hon. Gentleman says . |
| 10 | So it 's actually all about what the English did |
| 11 | Brown & Levinson point out the importance for social relationships of establishing common ground and agreeing on points of view , and illustrate the lengths to which speakers in different cultures will go to maintain an appearance of agreement , and they remark ‘ agreement may also be stressed by repeating part or all of what the preceding speaker has said ’ ( 1978:117 ) |
| 12 | The place has a minimum of things , nearly nothing new , but enough of what the 200 women and about 400 children , who pass through the refuge every year , might need . |
| 13 | Most of what the first Europeans saw as original vegetation in north-eastern North America was manipulated regrowth . |
| 14 | Third , and less depressing than the first two , Corinth is not completely excavated ( most of what the modern visitor sees is Roman ) and there is still hope that the classical agora may produce evidence of the kind we want ; though to get it , the excavators ( the American School in Athens ) will need permission to dig under the main square of the modern town . |
| 15 | Once it was felt not to be reliable as evidence for Jesus ' own history and teaching , however , most of what the psychological biographies had chiefly depended upon was removed along with it . |