Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge , Dr John Cummings has built his reputation on the importance of dietary fibre ( or what he calls non-starch polysaccharides ) . |
| 2 | He draws attention to what he calls multiple estates , that is large areas of land made up of smaller units — the territories referred to later . |
| 3 | George Brown in Human Teaching for Human Learning describes a project based on what he calls Confluent Education . |
| 4 | Quine takes his start not from the familiar case but from what he calls radical translation ( see Quine , 1960 , ch. 2 ) . |
| 5 | Mixing these two mediums , he has created what he calls Big Beat Poetry — thoughtful lyrics , dynamic raps , soulful melodies , harmonicas , flutes , much-favoured acoustic guitars and hints of reggae . |
| 6 | First of all he contrasts representative democracy with what he calls enlightened despotism which is really something like places guardianship . |
| 7 | Distinguishing between what he calls natural meaning ( as in Those black clouds mean rain ) , and non-natural meaning or meaning.nn ( equivalent to the notion of intentional communication ) , Grice gives the following characterization of meaning-nn ( 10 ) S meant-nn z by uttering U if and only if : ( i ) S intended U to cause some effect z in recipient H ( ii ) S intended ( i ) to be achieved simply by H recognizing that intention ( i ) Here , S stands for speaker ( in the case of spoken communication ; for sender or communicator in other cases ) ; H for hearer , or more accurately , the intended recipient ; " uttering U " for utterance of a linguistic token , i.e. a sentence part , sentence , or string of sentences or sentence parts ( or the production of non-linguistic communicative acts ) ; and z for ( roughly ) some belief or volition invoked in H. |
| 8 | SHL Systemhouse , the new owner of the remains of Interactive Systems Corp — now minus the Lachman technology piece ( see front page ) — is targeting client/server computing and what it calls transformational outsourcing through its new buy , thinking competitor Anderson Consulting may be asleep at the switch . |
| 9 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 10 | In the enterprise of seeking to understand consciousness as something more manageable and decently scientific than what it calls ghostly stuff , it is understood as yet less than ghostly stuff . |
| 11 | The League , in a report on the KKK , cites what it calls secret meetings in North Carolina and Arkansas of the two most powerful Klans , the Invisible Empire and the KKK Knights , where leaders , including Thomas Robb , Slater 's mentor , told members to begin lowering the racist rhetoric and avoid lawsuits . |
| 12 | InfoNow Corp , Boulder , Colorado pioneer of what it calls electronic commerce , using digital technology such as CD-ROM , new media , security , encryption , digital transmission to deliver products , has completed a private placing of stock , raising gross proceeds of $1.65m . |
| 13 | Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another . |
| 14 | If the BBC review degenerated into Tory revenge for what it considers long-standing bias ( a particular hobby-horse of Heseltine ) , then he will have failed . |