Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb -s] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has sought to highlight the positive ethical and aesthetic implications of Victorian science as they appear in literature ( rather than looking for further ammunition for what she calls the sterile and artificial battle of literature against science ) . |
| 2 | Dido does n't claim to have got to the bottom of what she calls the Canine Predicament . |
| 3 | President Aquino has urged village leaders to fight what she calls the psychological terror spread by right wing rebels . |
| 4 | Is what he feels the same as what we would feel were we holding him ? |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he estimates the public sector borrowing requirement will be for 1992-93 . |
| 6 | I tell you what he does a bloody lot for |
| 7 | The Secretary of State repeated several times that we need such a scale of weaponry to provide what he calls a credible deterrent . |
| 8 | Now he works from what he calls a glorified shed . |
| 9 | Perez says Open Interface will evolve into what he calls a comprehensive universal development environment . |
| 10 | Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues . |
| 11 | Moore says that those who try to identify good with some complex property are committing what he calls the naturalistic fallacy . |
| 12 | Pearse identifies the same process as the Kulak path when he shows how the incorporative drive draws out what he calls the progressive element among the peasantry ( Pearse 1975 ) . |
| 13 | Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle . |
| 14 | And in his book , er , The Age of the Crowd , Moscavisi refers to what he calls the black books of Dr Freud . |
| 15 | In a very timely book , Israel 's Fateful Decisions , published shortly before the Intifada broke out , the Israeli scholar , General Yehoshavat Harkabi , wrote that for a settlement to be possible , both sides must first renounce their respective dreams or ‘ grand designs ’ — for the Zionists , the ‘ redemption ’ of all the Land of Israel , for the Palestinians , the ‘ liberation ’ of all the territory that once was theirs — and thereby end what he calls the absolute , ‘ existential ’ nature of the struggle . |
| 16 | We conclude by noting that Young ( 1987 ) , in a paper which attacks the one-sided partiality of much criminological theory , is rightly critical of what he calls the adversarial positivism which characterises the debate over unemployment and crime . |
| 17 | This is the context of Foucault 's critique of what he calls the sovereign model of power , of the idea that power has a single source in a master , king , or class — and can thus easily be reversed . |
| 18 | Barthes 's commentary represents what he calls the step-by-step approach which affirms the text 's plurality by the attempt to ‘ star [ étoiler ] the text instead of assembling it ’ ( p. 13 ) , to fragment and disperse it , instead of unifying it . |
| 19 | Expressive behaviour , according to Tormey ( and not to be confused with the way Harré is using the term ) points in two directions simultaneously : towards some state of emotional arousal in the person ( say , anger or wonder or pleasure ) ; and towards what he calls an intentional object , something outside the person to which the state of arousal is prepositionally related . |
| 20 | Mr Stern has not flinched from talking to buyers , sellers , advisers , consultants , accountants , friends , farmers and agents in his determination to buy at what he considers a reasonable price . |
| 21 | As some of Mr. Gould 's descriptions appeared to me brief , I have enlarged them , but have always endeavoured to retain his specific character ; so that , by this means , I trust I shall not throw any obscurity on what he considers the essential character in each case ; but at the same time , I hope , that these additional remarks may render the work more complete . |
| 22 | But Cureton then groups clitic phrases into what he considers the intonational structure to be . |
| 23 | Whatever the right labels , the attitudinist agrees that no properly ethical expression can be adequately defined in purely naturalistic or even metaphysical terms but offers what he thinks a better explanation of this fact than the invocation of non-natural properties , namely that such definitions ignore valuational or emotive meaning . |
| 24 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 25 | Interrupted by what he terms a second wave of moral regeneration and repression in the nineteenth century , it resumes its onward march from the 1860s , to the present . |
| 26 | For the purpose of this paper he ignores what he terms the pre-influence stage . |
| 27 | In 1982 the company gave what it calls a QI award , and preferential treatment , to suppliers that scored 85 or above . |
| 28 | The General Assembly has stressed the need for what it calls a new economic order . |
| 29 | Roger Sippl 's latest venture is now official : ProActive Software Inc has been created to develop and market what it calls a new generation of enterprise-wide customer information resource management systems . |
| 30 | Roger Sippl 's latest venture , ProActive Software Inc , Mountain View , California ( UX No 394 ) , has now launched its first product — what it calls a new generation of enterprise-wide Customer Information Resource management systems . |