Example sentences of "what [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What goes for one player should also go for the other .
2 What goes into that file is up to you .
3 What , wh wh feeling slightly bigger , you get three and a half , but er what goes into conven what goes into conventional memory ?
4 Yeah I think we 're going to have a major say in what goes on this season .
5 Well it 's a verb phrase so erm they just , all that means is if you take a subject expression and well , what goes , what goes after such expression is a verb phrase , that my opinion not just you know .
6 What goes in this end column , here ?
7 What goes in this end column here ?
8 If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea .
9 What lies within this tradition ?
10 This research aims to identify what lies behind successful collaboration and to draw lessons about best practice in the formulation and management of collaboration .
11 Or rather not , but keep the odds of knowledge in my power without co-partner , so to add what wants in female sex the more to draw his love and render me more equal and perhaps a thing not undesirable sometimes superior , for inferior .
12 But these differences reflect different ideas of what counts as relevant evidence ; and much of the literature is a debate on evidence and the proper and improper uses of techniques for manipulating data .
13 This still leaves open the question of what counts as sound evidence , and this in turn leads to a central theme of this book : ‘ How can we collect sound evidence about the social world that can be used to increase our understanding of that world ? ’
14 Social networks within the estates furnish mutual aid such as babysitting , the companies look after the structural maintenance of the houses , and most residents have common ideas about what counts as enjoyable socialising which are not shared by Shetlanders ; for instance , it was often pointed out by incomers that dinner parties are a novelty to all Shetlanders except young professionals .
15 Such questions are not only perennially interesting ; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as human knowledge .
16 But I know , and you should know , that imagination is not what counts at this stage of a young man 's career ; what he needs is application , study , repetition , diligent imitation and sincere admiration of his peers .
17 Correctly feeling that Miranda thought she was being tiresome , she added , ‘ What counts in this tiff — as you call it — is the principle of the thing . ’
18 What matters for this purpose is that if it escapes it is likely to do mischief and this is the meaning to be given to ‘ dangerous thing ’ in this context .
19 What matters at this level is that the searcher clearly understands that if Christianity is true , his need , whatever it is , is met .
20 What matters at this point is to see the importance for faith and doubt which this claim implies .
21 All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers .
22 Layering suspense element upon suspense element , the episode builds up tension almost to breaking point as audiences ponder the big question : ‘ What lives in that city ? ’
23 Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity .
24 Now the peasants are bent over what looks like bare earth
25 The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years .
26 This split is n't perfect because it is possible for some complex types of software error to produce what looks like random failure because a particular set of rare events have to occur .
27 Well , to the casual observer , very little ; it 's a fairly straightforward 600 body style with what looks like standardish Rick hardware , the usual through neck construction and headstock design …
28 Those who operate according to total ignorance about the women 's movement also pay scant attention to social class and race as critical concerns in the content and teaching and provision of what passes as adult education .
29 What passes on either side of the boundary ‘ shall ’ , Kerr declares , ‘ be both invisible and inaudible on the other ’ ; even encounters in passages are to be avoided .
30 Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast .
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