Example sentences of "to what it " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a Western eye is familiar with the process of looking , as it were , through an image to what it represents or means , an Eastern critic looks also at the surface of a painting or a drawing , in which a poem or other calligraphic element may form an integral part of the work . |
| 2 | Although the scores of The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker followed Petipa 's explicit orders that each item consisted of so many bars of one tempo and time signature and as to what it was supposed to represent , Tchaikovsky did demonstrate how ballet music could be developed symphonically by using the leitmotifs . |
| 3 | However , it will not provide the bumper take-out price implied by the recent performance of the Jaguar share price , offering instead some guidance as to what it might be in the future . |
| 4 | Yet part of her aim is to ‘ invent a fictional language which will be as invisible , as transparent , as close as possible to what it speaks of ’ . |
| 5 | The economic climate in Britain was very different then to what it is today . |
| 6 | Friends of the Earth proposes a dozen green taxes , three of which would directly affect the motorist , It calls for abolition of road tax , but for the price of petrol to be raised to what it was in real terms in 1975 . |
| 7 | The doubling of profits in Communications brings the level back only to what it was in the second half of last year . |
| 8 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
| 9 | Thus , the only way to understand Scripture is to submit to what it is saying at face value . |
| 10 | Mr Graham White , of the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust , said : ‘ It will take at least a year or 18 months of continuous rain to bring this river back to what it once was , and persuade the swans to stay . ’ |
| 11 | Having got his way for so long , he should now relax and let the chair revert to what it it was in the past : a part-time job . |
| 12 | For instance , what the Harlequins are doing with Troy Coker at the moment may be legal but it bears no relation to what the law should be or to what it should be seen to be . |
| 13 | Part of the ACOST review is devoted to what it should itself be looking at . |
| 14 | The dispute was only resolved in July 1986 when Senor Perez de Cuellar , Secretary General of the United Nations , arranged a package deal whereby France paid the New Zealand government £4.5 million in addition to what it had privately paid to Pereira 's family and the £5 million it also had to pay Greenpeace in October 1987 . |
| 15 | An NAS part 1 course is an ideal way to become involved in underwater archaeology or simply satisfy your curiosity as to what it 's all about . |
| 16 | In less emotive terms , the Daily Telegraph has devoted a page to what it called the ‘ cracks in the image of justice ’ which are being identified — ‘ and not only by predictable critics ’ . |
| 17 | cylindrical pierced metal candle shades which , placed in a shallow dish of water , steadied the flame and prevented the candle from setting light to what it was standing on . |
| 18 | At the second meeting of the judges , on Thursday , 21 st May , the atmosphere seems to have been very different to what it had been the previous week . |
| 19 | The proposal is to raise the level to what it was in the 1930s . |
| 20 | By contrast , the Labour party has been silent about new technology , preferring to mutter about unemployment without putting forward detailed proposals as to what it would do about the problem beyond throwing public money at the dole queues . |
| 21 | It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice . |
| 22 | It is not illegal to carry out development without permission but the planning authority ( and only they ) can , if they so wish , take action to put the position back physically to what it was before the development took place . |
| 23 | Let's get to what it means . ’ |
| 24 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 25 | As to what it would achieve … ’ |
| 26 | Her guess as to what it fundamentally was had been correct . |
| 27 | Contrary to what it is saying the problem is not in the belief but in the believer , not in the insufficiency of truth but in the self-sufficiency of the truster . |
| 28 | Other motivations may pull out of line this relationship between assuming and asking ; but at its purest , faith is strong or weak , advances or retreats in direct proportion to what it assumes . |
| 29 | But yes , after Lindsey and Stevie joined , the whole thing got back to what it was in terms of success , but in American terms , which was obviously bigger . |
| 30 | Why are n't they closer to what it is to be an actor ? |