Example sentences of "of what this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to find out more of what this writer thinks about imitation , we are in a position to consult a work by him where a treatise on the subject is developed at intervals and where he writes in propria persona . |
| 2 | A bare narrative of the details of what this man lived through , of their effect upon him , would alone deserve classic status . |
| 3 | You had to read the newspapers to understand the depth and thrust of what this campaign was all about . ’ |
| 4 | This article is concerned with the question of what this plan might be , or in other words , with the relevance of reformulations . |
| 5 | Now if we try and get some idea of what this distance may correspond to , light travels at what sort of speed ? |
| 6 | Thus one account of what this speaker is talking about would contain the following elements : a joke — the taw — smoke — into houses — out of houses — people get trolley — the use of the trolley . |
| 7 | I wan na put this er question of what this playhouse is about a back to a stage to the platform because I think that 's where it belongs er were here to criticize but not to initiate . |
| 8 | She had wanted to be strong to the end , give no evidence of what this overthrow was doing to her . |
| 9 | And then they get this terrible jolt and er they come out with a totally different perception of what this play is than than they went in with . |
| 10 | Mr Ford has shown an absence of leadership and an absence of grasp of what this country is and what it ought to be . ’ |
| 11 | By that time , we shall have a better idea of what this country wants its accountants to do . |
| 12 | I feel rivalry and anger at most groups but the cream of what this country has can co-exist quite amicably together . ’ |
| 13 | No mention in the Greater York Study , no mention in any plan before us of what this reserve might be required for , or where it might be located . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , let's send a copy of what this treaty means to every home in Britain , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Moving round the archways of Valencia 's bull-ring where , that night , Nirvana would give Spain its first in-the-flesh taste of what this nonsense was all about , it was almost a relief to greet Kurt Cobain once again , a paler , bleached-haired , bespectacled Kurt Cobain , but recognisably the same lovable scruff who late last year turned rock 'n' roll upside down with a song named after a deodorant . |
| 16 | Pluralist community power methods are held to assume a state of equilibrium in the society under investigation and , finding apathy and low participation , make a functional connection ; but no specification is made by pluralist writers of what this balance , harmony or equilibrium consists of ; though other elements of the model may be carefully defined and rigorously quantified , the conditions within which the equilibrium operates are generally neglected . |
| 17 | That was for the older girls , and they frightened us to death with tales of what this Fanny-Annie , as they said called her , had er had said to them , and how rude she was , terrible . |
| 18 | His mind busied itself with images of what this news could do to his investigation if it ever became public ; the newspaper headlines ; the half-amused speculation of the cynics ; the crowds of sightseers , the superstitious , the credulous , the genuine believers , thronging the church in search of … what ? |
| 19 | You asked the question of of what this criterion erm could mean and I 'd suggest that it means the following . |
| 20 | She had a good idea of what this revelation was going to be , and was even beginning to enjoy their discomfiture . |
| 21 | The major problem here is that their image of what this community consists of tends to be markedly different from that of the local population . |
| 22 | Where you think of what this week 's gimmick 's going to be . |
| 23 | In a situation such as this much of what this Report contains may seem to be irrelevant . |