Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , and more importantly for what follows , there is a crisis of the political language , images and cultural symbols which this movement needs in order to develop its self consciousness and its political programme . |
| 2 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
| 3 | Fortunetellers make educated guesses too — mostly about what they think their ‘ subject ’ would like to hear . |
| 4 | After all , reckoned America 's lawmakers , these bosses know most about what needs to be done — never mind that they got the firm into trouble in the first place . |
| 5 | The two important , and possibly conflicting elements to be borne in mind are , who knows most about what the job involves and who is most skilled at the process of selection interviewing . |
| 6 | Certainly the most difficult ideas in statistics have little to do with mathematics but are rather about what is knowable and how it may be known . |
| 7 | In me the need to talk is a primary impulse , and I ca n't help saying right off what comes to my tongue . |
| 8 | I think we need to say , okay , in the future , what are we , the town , gon na do , to make this building right for what we want for the town . |
| 9 | Although a considerable amount of generalized research on use has been carried out , many librarians still know relatively little about what their users want . |
| 10 | But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook . |
| 11 | The Cockcroft Committee pointed out that , for pupils with very low scores in GCE and CSE examinations , much could be said about what they do n't know , but little about what they do know . |
| 12 | The real problem is , as the Carnegie Foundation has realized since establishing the Ageing Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1982 ( Pifer and Bronte , 1986 ) , that we know surprisingly little about what happens to a society and its economy when its age structure changes significantly . |
| 13 | It is fair to speculate a little about what kind of men these may be . |
| 14 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 15 | ‘ Right about what ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Right about what ? ’ |
| 17 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 18 | He presented it rather as what was left in tales that were not any of the supposed binary opposites of simple comedy , i.e. religious miracles , moralities or satire . |
| 19 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 20 | The first lecture was due to start in half an hour — time enough for what she had to do . |
| 21 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 22 | I ca n't thank him enough for what he is doing , ’ says Kim , of Romford , Essex . |
| 23 | Not enough to be a dealer , only enough for what the police termed ‘ personal use ’ . |
| 24 | BELVILLE ] The girl 's well enough for what she is . |
| 25 | ‘ Not enough for what ? ’ |
| 26 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no dance house in London which is big enough for what we want to do , ’ she said , looking admiringly at the spacious stage area being laid out to the rear of the former Empire Theatre . |
| 28 | They had n't thought about that do you know , I reckon that Sister Josephine erm behind all this , she wanted that hall and she and Father used to talk about this you see they want to extend the church back and do away with the car parking area as well , oh that 's alright , but erm sort of ca n't see any point in it , I mean congregations are going down , they 're not increasing , the church is big enough for what is necessary I would of thought would n't you ? |
| 29 | The judge told Levy no punishment was severe enough for what he did . |
| 30 | Birdwatchers had always worried terribly about what would happen to Brownsea after the owner , Mrs Bonham-Christie , died . |