Example sentences of "what it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voters , so far as you can judge from Greek opinion polls , would like to choose an economically responsible government in the coming election , and may even be willing to react responsibly to what it asks of them . |
| 2 | That 's what it tastes of is n't it ? |
| 3 | Not only do we not enjoy what we eat ; in many instances we do not even notice what it tastes like . |
| 4 | ‘ You know what it tastes like ? ’ she asks dreamily . |
| 5 | Yet part of her aim is to ‘ invent a fictional language which will be as invisible , as transparent , as close as possible to what it speaks of ’ . |
| 6 | ( a ) in what it selects from or assumes about an historical problem . |
| 7 | Can they tell you , when they use it , what it expresses for them ? |
| 8 | If statements by Ministers as to the intent or effect of an Act were allowed to prevail , this would contravene the constitutional rule that Parliament is ‘ sovereign only in respect of what it expresses by the words used in the legislation it has passed : ’ per Lord Diplock in Black-Clawson [ 1975 ] A.C. 591 , 638e . |
| 9 | Whatever the merits of this argument , what it points to is the way in which the complexities of these tensions found their focus in the questions of sexuality . |
| 10 | The term reference is traditionally used in semantics for the relationship which holds between a word and what it points to in the real world . |
| 11 | It is a while since the BCU have been involved with making films but the comeback is well handled and is a quality film , making up in the information supplied on what it lacks on the American squirt films . |
| 12 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 13 | The volume is really little more than a set of expanded notes ; but what it lacks in inspiration on that score , it more than makes up by its sheer usefulness , not least as an examination primer . |
| 14 | Concerto Köln may not be the most polished of today 's period instrument groups , but their playing of Handel 's miraculously varied score makes up in commitment what it lacks in finesse . |
| 15 | Perhaps this is why it sleeps twice as long as we do , making up in length of slumber what it lacks in depth . |
| 16 | What it lacks in aim , it makes up for with persistence and it too usually manages to break open one of the eggs . |
| 17 | PLAYER : Well , it 's a device , really — it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible ; you understand , we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style . |
| 18 | But what it lacks in size it compensates for in quality . |
| 19 | No no no well it 's always it was then like a team of pygmies beating Liverpool today that 's what it ranks with . |
| 20 | Creators of film and documentaries sometimes drew upon stock shots , and the actual sequence shown is not always what it purports to be . |
| 21 | The Government can do what it likes with such sites and protests are too small to take into calculation . |
| 22 | So if you do your nought to hundred , and draw your graph and just read off , what it gets on twenty . |
| 23 | As for what it gets in return , Spain gets little farm money , as it has few rich farmers ( who get most from Europe 's upside-down farm policy ) and little research and development money , as it lacks high-class laboratories . |
| 24 | Westminster faces tough state of play A significant contributor to the Government purse , sport is looking hard at what it gets in return . |
| 25 | The point is this , after a general election the party that 's won , it 's share of the vote in the most , in , in the , in the opinion poll taken most immediately after the election it goes up , it 's higher than actually what it gets in the general election . |
| 26 | Give the children a simple message and ask them to pass it along and see what it becomes at the end . |
| 27 | Myself and Parco Polo seeks meaning in what it does to us , and it left me thinking that the late Italo Calvino has a lot to answer for . |
| 28 | But I 'm still not over what it does to people and what they think of me because of it . |
| 29 | I apologize ; I tend to eat too fast — you ca n't imagine what it does to my liver . ’ |
| 30 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |