Example sentences of "what [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should always ask the questions , and that is another way that people will understand that you know what goes on the other side of the microphone . |
| 2 | Rockboots and stone sliver axes give access to what turns into a classic mountain route . |
| 3 | It is about people coming to identify and express personal feelings , wishes and circumstances and coming to understand what contributes to the positive and negative of their existence . |
| 4 | I shall now go some of the way up this valley , as far as the Col du Tourmalet at the end of it — what lies on the far side of the col must wait for the section of this chapter on the valley of the Adour . |
| 5 | We — that is you and 1 — as well as the Yek , ought to know what lies beyond the Great Sea . |
| 6 | What lies within the published guidelines is very relevant to the actions taken by Orkney Islands Social Work Department . |
| 7 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 8 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 9 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 10 | What lies behind the different views of the books is , of course , social and economic changes . |
| 11 | For the rest of the book I turn to the second and in particular to what lies behind the mounting opposition to the Treaty , away from the fug and the isolation of Cabinet rooms , palaces and Chancelleries . |
| 12 | Here we talk to former teachers , old friends and relatives in a special TODAY investigation to discover what lies inside the tortured soul of Sinead . |
| 13 | This is not simply an alternative or complementary perspective , since it raises directly the issue that what counts as a philosophical problem is itself an issue for critical inquiry . |
| 14 | The conventions about what counts as a convincing argument vary with time and place . |
| 15 | Since people who ask questions about the world vary in their interests , curiosity and knowledge , what counts as a successful explanation is also likely to vary greatly . |
| 16 | It is clear , I think , from these examples that if the principle of induction is to be a guide to what counts as a legitimate scientific inference , then the ‘ large number ’ clause will need to be qualified in some detail . |
| 17 | What counts as a low income depends on how much money you and your partner have left each week after you 've paid for things like rates or Community Charge , rent or mortgage . |
| 18 | Alternatively , the industry could be in the hands of a private firm which would have its prices regulated by the state in such a way as to earn what approximates to a normal rate of return on capital employed . |
| 19 | I have to remember we spent her first ten years together and hope that this will be what matters in the long run . |
| 20 | What matters from the functional point of view is analogy : carrying out comparable functions . |
| 21 | There 's a half-open hatch there leading into what looks like a deep , oddly cube-shaped cupboard ; it 's a dumb waiter . |
| 22 | If you look beneath the carriage , you can see that it has what looks like a shortened needle . |
| 23 | Now , in the courtship of many species of ducks ( see Figure 1.8 , p. 16 ) , the male points his bill towards his back feathers in what looks like a stylized modification of preening . |
| 24 | Singer Nick Jarvis , resplendent in what looks like a blonde Beatle wig , wrenches tunes from his Rickenbacker that tell of an adolescence spent listening to The Beatles and The Byrds . |
| 25 | Singer Nick Jarvis , resplendent in what looks like a blonde Beatle wig , wrenches tunes from his Rickenbacker that tell of an adolescence spent listening to The Beatles and The Byrds . |
| 26 | Massey 's realism is implicit rather than explicit but she remains committed to what looks like a traditional and reflective , rather than revolutionary and transformational , conception of explanation . |
| 27 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 28 | The other is a slim footbridge carried on the piers of what looks like a former railway viaduct . |
| 29 | In county cricket it is rare enough , happening only once last summer when Warwickshire played Hampshire in the NatWest semi-final and both teams had two Smiths on their side , but in Test cricket , the Christchurch match chalked up what looks like a first . |
| 30 | Theta ( 4.3 ) is in the same field with Alpha ( 4.1 ) , making up what looks like a wide pair ; Alpha is white , Theta decidedly orange . |