Example sentences of "as [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for what the head contains , well , yes , Johnny needs some of the things that live in there : will , desire , perversity . |
| 2 | Example 4:8 Definition of rent linked to head rent " the reviewed rent " means the highest of ( 1 ) the rent contractually payable immediately before the relevant review date ( 2 ) the market rent and ( 3 ) per cent of the rent payable under the headlease ( assuming if it is not the fact that the headlease is in existence on the relevant review date ) Example 4:9 Alternative definition if at any time the rent payable under the headlease is increased the payable under this lease shall be increased with effect from the date as from which the rent payable under the headlease is increased so as to equal per cent of that rent |
| 3 | One useful result established there is that eqn ( 7.4 ) can be written as in which the anticipated dependence of curvature on the second derivatives of the metric coefficients is made explicit . |
| 4 | Instead of using It ( a cleft structure ) , an identifying theme places an element in theme position by turning it into a nominalization using a wh-structure ( called a pseudo-cleft structure ) , as in What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity , or What was received by the book in China was a great deal of publicity . |
| 5 | The book is prefaced by a quotation from William Faulkner 's The Bear , in which McCaslin says ( in response to uncertainty as to what the poem they were discussing meant ) , ‘ He had to talk about something . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 7 | The ‘ catch ’ is that , even though the time when something is done is decided by the volunteer , he has no cues from clocks , television , or other humans as to what the time really is . |
| 8 | Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ? |
| 9 | There is clearly no general agreement within the education system as to what the functions of the headteacher are ; it therefore becomes difficult , if not impossible , to generate criteria for effectiveness . |
| 10 | He had the look of an old man waiting outside the doctor 's office in a paupers ' hospital ; sent for , rather than there by choice ; content to wait ; apathetic as to what the doctor would tell him , because good news no longer existed and bad news was no longer bad , but merely an essential ingredient of his condition . |
| 11 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 12 | If one activity needs to be very closely content-focused ( maybe , for example , at the opening of the topic where the children are put clearly in the picture as to what the topic is to be about ) , another needs to be constructed to allow pupil exploratory work . |
| 13 | In countries where the practice is officially , if apologetically , accepted , as in Sierra Leone , Zambia or Botswana , revised timings are provided in the official syllabus , but there exists no guide as to what the teacher is to leave out from an already overloaded syllabus . |
| 14 | Although she had no suspicions of Tamar 's interest in Gareth Davis , she had noticed a suppressed excitement in her mistress of late and worried as to what the cause could be . |
| 15 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
| 16 | This is not to essay any argument as to what the ultimate future of Northern Ireland should be . |
| 17 | The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services . |
| 18 | Among these will be the definitions held by the people involved as to what the primary task of the enterprise is , how its relationships to its environment are conceived by the people in their roles , what uses they make of technologies ‘ and the needs of the members for social and psychological satisfaction , and , above all , for support in the task of dealing with anxiety ’ ( Menzies , 1970 ) . |
| 19 | Nobody in Pearl was left in any doubt as to what the OLAS system was expected to do . |
| 20 | Very often I fail to see that something is on its way to birth , and tax myself with totally useless questions as to what the matter might be . |
| 21 | He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant . |
| 22 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 23 | While Birtwell , who is a fisheries research scientist with the Canadian government in Vancouver , has still to decide whether or not he can continue to devote the time needed to coach the national team , he has no doubts as to what the future holds . |
| 24 | Even though we should now have reached beyond this view there is still lingering uncertainty as to what the world of experience and thought is when perceived through a language such as BSL . |
| 25 | despite television being overwhelmingly the major source of news for the general public , audience perceptions of the news and as to what the strike was all about differed considerably . |
| 26 | Secondly , there was very considerable diversity of view as to what the ‘ essential elements ’ of the curriculum should be , many authorities regarding such matters as being the concern of the schools themselves . |
| 27 | The question therefore arises as to what the implications of this contradiction might be . |
| 28 | Again , it is not easy to be dogmatic in answer to the question whether a court is exercising a judicial function when it entertains a reference from the Attorney-General as to what the law is on a particular point . |
| 29 | A further corollary which has figured largely in our studies is the idea that the best , though not necessarily the ultimate , authorities as to what the action ‘ actually ’ is , are the actors themselves . |
| 30 | To understand the force of these interpretations of what has been happening we must be clear as to what the contrasting but implicit concept of order is supposed to comprise . |