Example sentences of "what it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In statistical terms by far the best predictor of what an authority will spend this year is what it spent last year ( Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the mean time , the company says it will continue to invest in product development — research costs amounted to 8% of its half year turnover — and is looking to branch out into what it calls new ‘ product identification ’ technologies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 9 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 10 | What it felt like to be on the receiving end of such operations and the hammering which the landscape endured in those early years of the nineteenth century are painfully conveyed by another poet whose roots were in the East Midlands . |
| 11 | With the money safe in his pocket , he felt a strange and most unfamiliar feeling of pleased anticipation stirring inside him ; he was really looking forward to his appointment with Nutty , to find out what it felt like to ride a horse . |
| 12 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
| 13 | Bradbury 's first novel , Eating People is Wrong ( 1959 ) , tells what it felt like to be a first-generation student in a civic university like Leicester in the 1950s , puzzled and intrigued as a humble newcomer by liberal values of knowledge-for-its-own-sake and a wholly unfamiliar style of life . |
| 14 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 15 | He lifted his wrist experimentally to see what it felt like without the support . |
| 16 | Of what it felt like to live in such a world we are , and must for ever remain , entirely ignorant . |
| 17 | But I was admiring him and remembering Francis ; how he had been , once ; what it felt like to touch and be touched by him . |
| 18 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 19 | But he remembered very clearly what it felt like to be followed . |
| 20 | What it felt like to be left out . |
| 21 | He was wonderful on things , on everyday smells and sounds , and what it felt like to work with your hands . |
| 22 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
| 23 | I wondered what it felt like to die . |
| 24 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 25 | This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war . |
| 26 | Even though the NSDAP was to achieve its majority in the Danzig Volkstag with a very clear mandate from the electorate to do what it thought necessary , most Danzigers were prepared to reap the benefits of being on the winning side without pondering too deeply the significance or morality of their own personal support for a party they did not entirely trust or like . |
| 27 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 28 | Among the nine member countries in 1985 the British pension came second to last in what it enabled older people to buy in their own countries . |
| 29 | To keep morale up , the ANC plans to do what it does best : organise ‘ mass action ’ , including demonstrations next Friday , when Mr de Klerk announces his latest reforms . |
| 30 | Sanctions and embargoes throw the Soviet regime back upon what it does best : enforcing a state of siege , imposing military discipline on production and mobilising society along wartime lines . |