Example sentences of "of what [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Moore the ‘ science ’ of ethics is concerned with the property or quality good — with what it is , with what possesses it , and with how to produce as much of what possesses it as possible . |
| 2 | But in recognizing the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ as absolute we run up against that imbalance of the organism in the direction of what pleases it , by which it spontaneously expands awareness in one direction by contracting it in others . |
| 3 | Certain types of groups only have one way of viewing problems as the right way to look at problems you don if any of you have been in the R C P , Revolutionary Communist Party , you might find that 's a fairly similar sort of thing there 's a party line and dimensions of what constitutes it . |
| 4 | The dashing cavalier , er the , Locke tells a story about someone who in their youth was a k a cavalry officer erm and how this person in later life , their memory of being a cavally off cavalry officer is part of what individuates them . |
| 5 | Most departments will select their supplementary study units with due regard to their existing resources and from their experience of what motivates their pupils . |
| 6 | You will also understand yourself more , you will have a better idea of what motivates you . |
| 7 | Depending upon what view of human nature we take then we will arrive at different explanations of what motivates us . |
| 8 | The starting point of the process is an evaluation of what documents your organisation produces , how it currently produces them and in what quantities . |
| 9 | Of what does one have to be aware ? |
| 10 | Everybody needs a bit of what does you good . |
| 11 | When Nausicaa meets Polypheme mythology is cut up and reassembled to offer a shocking explanation of what underlies it , a parenthetical explanation which throws a provoking light on the relations between men and women , between civilization and savagery , between present and past . |
| 12 | Because , because Councillor do n't take my advice tonight , and I never thought I 'd be thankful to but take advantage of what says what you should do . |
| 13 | Hilton is aware that ultimately the lord will be best judge of what helps him most , but he suggests that every day should start with an effort to discipline his whole attention to God . |
| 14 | That is something of what haunts me . |
| 15 | The technology is not a neutral determining force , but is itself subject to human choice which is made by the powerful on the basis of what suits their interests . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're finding that women have a very clear idea of what suits them , ’ she says . |
| 17 | I think when you 're a carer , caring for a disabled person , in my own case it 's child , you 're not just erm it 's not just a disabled child , you 've got a disabled family , because the whole family 's disabled because of what holds you back with this one child . |
| 18 | No , this issue is one of the er , of what affects our County . |
| 19 | The endurance of rivers , which is part of what makes them such a potent symbol in our culture , is also precisely the reason why they matter so much to ecologists and scientists . |
| 20 | It therefore gives little hint of what makes its author so extraordinary a figure . |
| 21 | Erm , that sounds very persuasive to all of us nowadays and I fully believe it , that part of what makes me me is in fact er the fact that I 'm this shape and this size |
| 22 | The boys , Gary ( Paul Darnell ) with his cocksure swagger , the so-funny slob Eddie ( Peter Hepplethwaite ) , and shy Rick ( Andrew Kennedy ) agonizing about his feelings , present different views of what makes their Saturday night . |
| 23 | The former has the difficulty of selection of what is relevant , for which Blake offers no rationale ; the latter has the difficulty of what makes one decide to investigate a particular feature . |
| 24 | This is part of what makes his eventual faith in God ( which he reaches for other reasons ) a radical reliance on God alone . |
| 25 | Repeat the above exercise with a list of what makes you ‘ less than ’ others . |
| 26 | Perhaps what was most lacking in the left 's criticism of A Very British Coup was any general discussion of the distinct importance of television as a medium and , more specifically , the question of what makes it such a potentially politically effective medium . |
| 27 | This is a very central issue for any sociology of the global system in so far as it makes the difference between a dismal chronicle of inevitability , which is absolutely not my intention , and an attempt to illuminate what is happening by a theory of what makes it happen and , by implication , what could make other things happen in other ways . |
| 28 | The detailed explanation of what makes us feel alert is not known , but it is certain to be some function of brain activity , and brain activity increases with body temperature . |
| 29 | But yeah , certainly that 's one of the things that we think , is that our , er it 's our memory of our own historical life events is part of what makes us who we are . |
| 30 | If rest and relaxation are purely passive — from flopping in front of a TV to meditation on emptying the mind — we are no longer in control of what enters our minds or unconscious . |