Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taboo is distinguished from what the Polynesians call noa , that is , the common , or the generally accessible . |
| 2 | We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think . |
| 3 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 4 | The discussion is based on what the author calls the ‘ Boltzmann-Gibbs ’ entropy , but in the terminology used above it is just the Gibbs entropy . |
| 5 | It is based on what the speaker wants to announce as his/her starting point and what s/he goes on to say about it . |
| 6 | I think that what what she is in danger of doing is cutting across what the District Council 's doing , we , er and in East Hertfordshire we are running at a , a composting scheme in conjunction with the County at and I , I , I understand that looks to be very promising . |
| 7 | Perhaps the basic technique is relying on what the literary theorists call " stock responses . |
| 8 | Erm we which is actually putting forward a budget which is responding to what the Policy Committee asks us to do . |
| 9 | Rather , the young child 's response is determined by what the child thinks the adult 's question must mean . |
| 10 | Scottish football is pockmarked with what the Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin once described as ‘ the ego in the boardroom , ’ that irrepressible businessman in the size 48 club blazer who ca n't keep his fingers out of football . |
| 11 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |