Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] what [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the recognition that what is said about Jesus in the New Testament is the expression of faith in him , and that this side of the matter , though not the only one , can not be left out of account , has also become a basic axiom of much modern New Testament study . |
| 2 | We had arrived in Indonesia speaking very little of the language , with 20,000 feet of film stock and what was left of Ringo 's £2,000 , intending to film our search for the Bird of Paradise with the Bugis pirates aboard the schooners which Alfred Wallace himself had sailed in 125 years before us . |
| 3 | There are , no doubt , many reasons , historical and intellectual , for this distinctive disjointedness between methods and what is regarded as the substance of sociology itself . |
| 4 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 5 | Moreover , just as there are general references to Salic law in the Pactus Legis Salicae , so too there are broad allusions to Ripuarian law in the Lex Ribvaria , suggesting once again that there was more to the law than what is contained in the code . |
| 6 | Blinkered and self-serving as this picture may appear ( it entirely ignores the gains which the USSR has achieved through war ) , it will be clear on reflection that what is meant by ‘ peace ’ is conflict without war : or , to invert these terms , ‘ a form of warfare which permits the settlement of unavoidable clashes between Socialism and Capitalism without having recourse to general armed conflict , ( author 's italics ) . |
| 7 | The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery . |
| 8 | This is the general population and as you will see this , this er patches on the whole issue of sex ratios and what is known as the Trivers Woolard effect and I 'll explain that later cos it 's so important . |
| 9 | There is growing concern in the Government about unemployment in the south-east of England and what is seen as discrimination in favour of Scotland and other areas through regional aid . |
| 10 | There is growing concern within the Government about the level of unemployment in the south-east of England and what is seen as discrimination in favour of Scotland and other areas through regional aid . |
| 11 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 12 | Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ? |
| 13 | Sales are split roughly 60:40 between financial printing and what is known as quality commercial . |
| 14 | His cohorts fell upon the champagne and what was left of the shepherd 's pie . |
| 15 | So it promises to bridge the gap that still in fact exists in many if not most organizations between what happens at the local and individual level and what 's happening at the corporate level . |
| 16 | The initial one-to-one meeting , held with one of the two group leaders , serves to clarify what participants can expect from the course and what is expected of them . |
| 17 | By taking into account , not only the meaning of U , but also the precise mechanisms ( like irony , or general assumptions of a certain level of implicitness ) which may cause a divergence between the meaning of U and what is communicated by the utterance of U in a particular context . |
| 18 | I still do not know [ September 1992 ] who briefed this court , when the briefings took place or what was told to this court during those briefings . ’ |
| 19 | no , no , it was just a bound to be a cos you see , let me explain something to you until you gave evidence today , certainly I did n't and maybe others did n't realize in this court room that what were looking at is that one edition of the brochure which may of had several editions , do you understand ? |
| 20 | But oh we were told about the war and what was happening between the Germans and whatnot . |
| 21 | It is best to make these shelves as close together as possible — say , around 10″ , and depending on the depth of shelf and what 's stored on it . |
| 22 | If you go to Consett in County Durham you come along the road and there 's the town and what was left of the old steel works because the steel works was built there because of its easy access to the iron ore deposits . |
| 23 | We do not know what was paid in cash and what was received in cash by the Post Office ; all we know in this regard is the opening and closing cash figure . |
| 24 | The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went . |
| 25 | Although the Bill is principally about the council tax , the new clause relates to the community charge and what is known as the student gap . |
| 26 | Being gripped by a narrative is an altogether wider notion than what is presaged by the two-in-one of being outside yet inside Raskolnikov 's ‘ strange smile ’ : the rehearsal of the murder , the murder sequence itself , the three long duels with the detective Porfiry , the suffering , the hesitation , the final climb up the police-station stairs . |
| 27 | Despite the serious limitations to a general theory equating anomaly and mystical danger , there is respectable if sometimes ambiguous psychological evidence that what is perceived to be unclassifiable ( and this is perhaps the crucial thing ) is cognitively and emotionally disturbing . |
| 28 | This provides an outline of the purpose of each module and what is expected from students . |
| 29 | I am not clear about what was made available in the report last night and what was published in newspapers earlier . |
| 30 | Perhaps it oversimplifies the situation to treat these as two quite different uses of such expressions as ‘ I believe that seems , rather , that it is built into the meaning of ‘ I believe that … ’ that it hovers between expressing tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , and expressing belief or awareness that the speaker believes that it is so . |