Example sentences of "in what [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , there are people who choose not to live in ‘ conventional families ’ but by themselves or with others in what we might call ‘ alternative households ’ . |
| 2 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 3 | And so we were involved a great deal in what we would call ‘ protesting ’ but as far as political activity , that was never my thing . |
| 4 | They 'd just be in their underwear and er it 's er there 's certain evidence that they engaged in what we would call heavy petting nowadays . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that factors like these are important in what we may call the social ‘ life ’ of language , and they are implicated in many aspects of linguistic variation and change . |
| 6 | We are a relatively small group and therefore are limited in what we can do . |
| 7 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 8 | Piers asked Alyssia pleasantly , and she again felt as though they were both making an enormous effort to include her in what they would have preferred to be an intimate tête-à-tête . |
| 9 | ‘ That is something we asked for years ago which has not been implemented , particularly because Dublin is not prepared to co-operate with London in what they would see as interning Irish citizens on Irish soil . |
| 10 | They are only interested in what they can make out of it . ’ |
| 11 | The aim is to test children both in what they know and in what they can do . |
| 12 | ‘ I can see I shall have to tell you more about Brownies before you believe in what they can do and do do . |
| 13 | Individually , workers may feel that they are severely limited , even powerless , in what they can do . |
| 14 | So although agencies can now see what sort of approach they should be making in women 's development policy , and are looking at their lives in their entirety — not just as baby machines , the agencies are restricted by the IMF and World Bank conditions in what they can do . |
| 15 | Many people today only believe in what they can see and touch and so they do n't believe in spirits , demons , angels or even God ! |
| 16 | ‘ The problem with all these stars , ’ said Peter Fairley , ‘ was that the moment they started to know that we were interested in what they could do , and we started to investigate how they did things , it just went . |
| 17 | ‘ They had a wonderful pioneering style and pride both in what they had achieved and in what they could teach you . |
| 18 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 19 | ( iv ) In many sections , Nietzsche 's points are not presented in what one might take to be their natural order . |
| 20 | To reiterate the point , the main concern of this discussion has been to locate certain strategic possibilities , as well as constraints , in relation to the currently dominant structures of capitalist property , or in other words to argue the mutability of the economic class relations of possession and separation from the conditions of production in what one might call a ‘ non-millenarian , manner . |
| 21 | Where you might require specialist advice in what I might describe as ‘ stand alone ’ projects , which in themselves will generate a report , for example , the founder directors requiring a due diligence report on the target company or advice on establishing share option schemes or other suitable management incentives for the new company , I would expect , following a more detailed discussion to provide a separate terms of reference and fee estimate . |
| 22 | Do you believe in what I might call national characteristics ? |
| 23 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 24 | That was further back that was in what I would say my great grannie 's time . |
| 25 | Erm obviously we can er prepare a note for the committee setting out the main features in what I would call our commercial strategy . |
| 26 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 27 | From this perspective the nature of modern democratic regimes , and the setbacks and limitations which they experience , are intimately connected with the class structure and the relations between classes as they have developed both in capitalist and in what I shall call ( for the moment ) post-capitalist societies . |
| 28 | There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ . |
| 29 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 30 | ‘ I believe in what I can see , ’ he replied . |