Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] that what " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant . |
| 2 | ‘ Wherever you find a group within society which feels that what it 's doing is seriously different from everyone else , then you 're likely to find initiation rites , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Which means that what did we say yesterday ? |
| 4 | I have outlined one possible approach to reading discourses , whether racist or antiracist , which suggests that what is going on in and between them may be more complex and contradictory than is often allowed . |
| 5 | The representational theory of mind treats the explanation of mental life as a kind of engineering problem ; it starts from the inside , from the representational state , and asks how mental states interact with one another to produce something that we would call ‘ knowledge ’ ; the representational theorist proceeds like a sceptical philosopher who thinks that what figures in our mental life is not reality but our mental representations of it ( recall my saying the Fodor described his position as ‘ methodological solipsism ’ ) . |
| 6 | She believes that what makes the South different from the rest of America is not just a matter of perception but almost a physical phenomenon . |
| 7 | They are , so to speak , tied to their own tail — an intriguing thought if one grants that what happens in the social world depends on what people expect to happen . |
| 8 | It insists that what is important in law is not the fact of command but the end at which that command aims and the way it achieves the end . |
| 9 | ‘ He accepts that what took place was against the will of the girl and that he must take the consequences . ’ |
| 10 | The falsification of cautious conjectures is informative because it establishes that what was regarded as unproblematically true is in fact false . |
| 11 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 12 | US Secretary of State James Baker observed that Shevardnadze 's warning about dictatorship had to be taken seriously , and French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas commented on the resignation : " It confirms that what , as everyone knows , is a disastrous situation is now turning into an open crisis . |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-Baptiste is the culmination of the Basque style , being on a larger scale than other churches in the Basque country ; it shows that what , in villages such as Sare , or Itxassou , or Ainhoa , is a warmly communal style of decoration , can also be a majestic one . |
| 14 | It emphasizes that what is important is not the fecund earth-mother herself so much as the dependent relation of the child to her and to her nutritive , sustaining functions . |
| 15 | Despite this , it seems that what is now on offer is not the true independence of monetary policy which would come from free competition between different currencies and policies ( whether the currencies remained in the public sector as at present or whether they were in private hands ) , but instead the imposition of one economic and monetary policy by a powerful and unaccountable institution . |
| 16 | It seems that what drove him mad with guilt was masturbation . |
| 17 | Tony Davies attests to the continuing force even in the 1980s of the " fluid and contradictory debris of discursive fragments which surrounds such limp , but none the less coercive , questions as " Well , what do you think of this then ? " 150 It seems that what continues largely to hold these fragments together are those practically-embedded assumptions into which Barbara Hardy , in her strict attention to the humdrum interactions rather than the more formal discursive superstructure , offers a degree of insight unusual for writings on English in higher education . |
| 18 | But short of such extreme situations , it seems that what punishments are actually inflicted on offenders makes little difference to general deterrence . |
| 19 | It seems that what we now know as Red Dell was earlier known as Thurdle . |
| 20 | And if my theory about the power of celluloid is true , it follows that what 's real in the movies today will be real for the rest of us tomorrow . |
| 21 | It follows that what is good is simply the ‘ exercise of impulses and the satisfaction of their appetencies ’ ( 1967 : 44 ) , an ‘ appetency ’ being defined as a conscious or unconscious desire in the broadest sense . |
| 22 | This means that the essential choices are left open ; above all , it means that what has already been done is not yet irrevocable . |
| 23 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 24 | The outcome was a victory for marketing , because it proves that what applies in the world of packaged goods holds true in the world of politics . |
| 25 | It maintains that what the sceptic takes to be his strength is in fact his weakness . |
| 26 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 27 | However , the court held that the accused does not have this exception when he knows that what he proposes to do is a crime . |
| 28 | This is obviously unsatisfactory , for it suggests that what is a matter of policy and values — namely , whether the doctor ought to treat — is within the special competence of doctors , whose expertise , in fact , is not in policy , but only in medical science . |