Example sentences of "[prep] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen 's broadcast has traditionally been a closely guarded secret — and it was seen as more sensitive than usual this year after what the Queen has termed her ‘ annus horribilis ’ or horrible year . |
| 2 | The Baker Plan of 1986 was a move in the right direction but came only after what the IMF called the painful adjustment phase of 1983–4 was over . |
| 3 | He died in Wirksworth after what the Derby Mercury described as a ‘ severe illness ’ , and was buried 9 May 1799 . |
| 4 | Three days ago , a 400lb bomb which destroyed the Stewarts supermarket in Derriaghy went off just 15 minutes after what the terrorists had claimed was a 45-minute warning . |
| 5 | Col. Eduardo Herrera Hassan , a former chief of police , was arrested by United States troops on Dec. 5 following what the government of President Guillermo Endara Galimany described as an " attempted coup " . |
| 6 | And ( b ) rigged prices lead to the dumped surpluses that distort world trade ; so the goal is to move the EC 's intervention prices down towards world-market ones — down , as a minimum , towards what a truly efficient European farmer can survive on . |
| 7 | Business Monitor : Management backing the Union Andrew Griffiths looks north of the border and towards what the future might hold for Scotland |
| 8 | Having said that , the Arts Council proposes a number of significant shifts in the allocation of funds , in which the trend is to move away from income-support schemes for artists towards what the Council has vaguely described as ‘ upgrading quality ’ . |
| 9 | Alfieri 's obsession with this case and his genuine concern towards what the outcome might be show a compassionate , and perhaps emotional , streak in the man . |
| 10 | ‘ He has done brilliantly , considering what a bad injury he had and he has set a lot of people talking . |
| 11 | That 's it for the back , which is surprising really , considering what the Quad-FX is capable of doing . |
| 12 | Land has been released to developers for residential and commercial prices well below what the market would bear ( Klausner , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | The sale of the state-owned airline Aerolíneas Argentinas , was finally agreed after a year of negotiations in Buenos Aires on July 4 , at a price well below what the government had predicted [ see pp. 37608 ; 37773 for background ] . |
| 14 | It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) . |
| 15 | In nineteen ninety one the S S A was introduced as the measure for assessing local authority needs and in that year our spending , instead of being one or two percent below what the government thought , it shot up to forty nine point nine five percent above the S S A figures . |
| 16 | Kate borrows a copy of What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know , by Gail Sforza Brewer and Tom Brewer , MD . |
| 17 | Decides to hide copy of What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know . |
| 18 | The bright new layout of the Wexford shop is a fare-runner of what every branch nationwide will look like in due course . |
| 19 | Work on it is like a dream , or like thoughts of what a work would be like . |
| 20 | I suddenly became aware of what a mess I looked . |
| 21 | I quickly became aware of what a ‘ real polis ’ was and more importantly what boundaries one had to cross to cease being real and in effect become unreal , inauspicious , and inhuman . |
| 22 | And should be chucked by those who still have some idea of what a good society should be . |
| 23 | It 's all a question of what a writer can use , what the work in hand will let him use . |
| 24 | The critical reader of a poem needs to have some idea of what a poem is , which need not be a theoretically sophisticated idea , and some acquaintance with poetry already . |
| 25 | To express such thoughts is to feel oneself uncomfortably situated between opposed concepts of what a university is . |
| 26 | It is , rather , the example of what a robust and subtle mind can do when it comes to shifting British planning policy around the table a bit . |
| 27 | The judge clearly adopted the right test — was this mother 's decision in the circumstances of the case within the bank of what a reasonable mother would do — and he was entitled to say ‘ No , it was not ’ . |
| 28 | Benjamin remarked , tellingly , that it is less a question of what a man 's beliefs are than the kind of man those beliefs make of him . |
| 29 | I am fully aware of what a disengaged starter motor sounds like , Mr Warwick . |
| 30 | Five great Magdalen men who enlarged my very idea of what a learned life should be — P. V. M. Benecke , C. C. J. Webb , J. A. Smith , F. E. Brightman and C. T. Onions … |