Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [prep] what [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the instrument and listened to Sandy 's heart for what seemed a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ People 's ideas of what constitutes a ‘ few ’ differ greatly ! ’ she shot back , consumed by jealousy at the thought of Luke and other women . |
| 3 | Marx 's theory about what causes the historical process has been very widely discussed and we shall return to it again and again in this book , but even at this stage a simple account of it must be given . |
| 4 | They are nevertheless couched in the rhetoric of democracy : they invoke the people and the people 's will as what legitimates the regime , or the policy or the action — which may even be something as arbitrary as a coup d'etat . |
| 5 | The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to . |
| 6 | These responses are based specifically upon native speakers ' intuitions about what constitutes a well-formed , coherent narrative . |
| 7 | Estimation questions bring into focus the problems of decimals , the range of answers regarded as correct , the role of practice in effective estimation and the pupils ' perceptions of what constitutes an acceptable answer in mathematics . |