Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one investor found the nerve to find fault with what the vast majority considered to be an excellent performance in 1991 . |
| 2 | Though it would certainly be in keeping with his media image if he were to use Seawitch for what the tabloids liked to call a ‘ love nest ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ We want to draw attention to what the police have been doing , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They want to have confidence in what the professionals are doing for their children . |
| 5 | Being aware of the ( external ) divergence between these cultures and ‘ mainstream ’ culture , they are anxious to avoid imposing what they call ‘ crude mainstream stereotypes ’ on to the interpretation of these internal systems : they want to get access to what the patterns of behaviour mean internally and how these are perceived by in-group members . |
| 6 | We have to add value to what the clients have already got . |
| 7 | In the " Lady Chatterley " case , Mr Justice Byrne directed that " as far as literary merit or other matters which can be considered under s4 are concerned , I think one has to have regard to what the author was trying to do , what his message may have been , and what his general scope was " . |
| 8 | As a result ‘ we have not been able to take advantage of what the City has to offer . ’ |
| 9 | They don do n't seem to take notice of what the teachers said . |
| 10 | About 189 B.C. the Roman general Publius became mad in the panhellenic sanctuary of Naupactus and began to utter oracles in good Greek about the end of Roman rule : a king would come from Asia to take revenge for what the Romans had done to the Greeks . |
| 11 | He urged everyone concerned to take note of what the Lord President had said . |
| 12 | 522 , the plaintiff sued the defendant , a Member of Parliament , for an alleged libel on television and sought to introduce evidence of what the defendant had said in the House of Commons as proof of malice . |
| 13 | In international law generally the duty to exhaust domestic remedies is to protect the interests of States but , in the context of the protection of human rights , also because the institutions in Strasbourg regard the development of effective domestic mechanisms for their protection as a necessary concomitant of the international procedures : individuals are required to make use of what the national systems provide before invoking the international jurisdiction . |