Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 2 | As the couple turned away , the wife was grumbling that her husband had missed the chance of what they now considered to be the best prospect . |
| 3 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 4 | Fraser-Smith was a vigorous defender of the tribe 's right to live in the Serengeti national park , but deplored the moran system and worked hard in the face of what he repeatedly referred to as their ‘ stultifying conservatism ’ to make the Masai appreciate the benefits of modern ranching . |
| 5 | He began to run towards the car , but the ground heaved under him and he fell sprawling , a few centimetres from the head of what he now guessed to be the Worm . |
| 6 | His first book , War and Trade in the West Indies , 1739–1763 ( 1936 ) , a tour de force based on immense research , was infused throughout by his pursuit of what he once declared to be his prime interest in history — ‘ to find out how things worked ’ . |
| 7 | But in order to convince the public of what it really amounts to , I decided to do something entirely out of the ordinary , that is , to get Wolfgang to write an opera for the theatre . |
| 8 | Jocelyne Saab , the Lebanese director , interestingly nuanced the question of what it actually means to be a woman film-maker by pointing to the need , for her , to make connections with other Oriental women . |
| 9 | Could you just remind us of what it actually means to the economy of this country . |
| 10 | The tie he had unearthed from the neglected depths of his jacket pocket was badly creased and stained with what he strongly suspected to be taramosalata . |
| 11 | When the male wasp spies it , he wastes no time in the attempt to mate with what he clearly takes to be a female of his own kind . |
| 12 | I 'm really sorry you could n't move in there tonight , but as usual everything here is delivered in what they charmingly refer to as Eastern Caribbean time — which means late ! ’ |
| 13 | It is useless to beetle your brow in what you clearly believe to be a threatening fashion . |
| 14 | ‘ Nonsense , Saul ! ’ said Araminta , smiling in what she evidently felt to be a winning fashion . |
| 15 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home , leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder . |
| 16 | Robert , a man in his late twenties with a long history of occult involvement , grew up in what he now knows to be one of the most haunted farmhouses in Lancashire on the Fylde coast . |
| 17 | Using our discussion in this chapter , edit it so that it conforms more to what you now understand to be conventions of an appropriate literary-critical style . |
| 18 | There was nothing new in Lukacs 's total opposition to what he contemptuously referred to as the decadent and sick art of modernism . |
| 19 | But her mind did not dwell long on what she privately felt to be a remote contingency — Lady Merchiston was so changeable ! |
| 20 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |
| 21 | It is hoped that the last has been heard of the practice ( see contributory cause ( a ) ) and that for the future it will be abandoned for what we now know to be more prudent and wiser measures . |
| 22 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 23 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |
| 24 | A revealing passage from Khrushchev 's memoirs , citing a letter written by the Soviet premier to Castro in late 1962 , shows his complete insensitivity to the Cubans ' wounded national pride and barely conceals his irritation at what he evidently believed to be ingratitude on Castro 's part . |