Example sentences of "of what [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God , I have to think of what to call these things . |
| 2 | The question of what constitutes confidential information was addressed by Lord Greene MR in Saltman Engineering Co Ltd v. |
| 3 | Its documentation is very idiosyncratic , and clearly reflects Crew 's own ideas of what constitutes good text . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first is that the question of what constitutes great creativity , at least , is still left open to debate . |
| 9 | Some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour . |
| 10 | The situation here is a familiar one in anthropology : the recognition of degrees of commonality of attitude and belief which provides for the variable definition of what constitutes cultural boundaries . |
| 11 | The concept of the ‘ vicious circle ’ theory is , of course , underlain by people 's expectations of what constitutes acceptable levels of service provision . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Both terms are representations of , but not solutions to , the problem of what constitutes sexual differences . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Within these limits , of what does parliamentary privilege consist ? |
| 17 | The answer lies in the provision of a structured Church and in the definition of what constituted heretical belief . |
| 18 | The legal concept of what constituted riotous assembly had proved utterly inadequate to the complexities of modem politics . |
| 19 | This discussion if we may call it that — was part of a wider , on-going debate of what constituted true nobility . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Sociologists , social psychologists , anthropologists and economists began to use and develop variable analysis in a series of what became classic studies . |
| 22 | 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 : |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He finished up as Programme controller and deputy managing director of ATV , laying the foundations for much of what became Central Television . |
| 25 | Once he saw a great swirling mass of gulls and rooks over a messy area of what seemed upturned soil and rubbish . |
| 26 | Our experience of what happens one earth when very superior culture groups meet very inferior culture groups is rather alarming . |
| 27 | Is this flying in the face of what makes good cinema ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Regardless of what returns Japanese investors are thought to require , the returns they have received were spectacular in 1980–89 . |
| 30 | Over the next five years San Jose will present a series of eighteen-month long exhibitions of works from the Whitney 's permanent collection , in exchange for a fee of $3 million — a high price for an art rental , but a fraction of what acquiring significant works costs these days . |