Example sentences of "[subord] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rested quietly and most comfortably in Sligachan Inn , than which I can not imagine a better retreat in the early summer of late autumn , either before or after the great throng , who , coming from north and south to it in the height of the tourist season , make it a place of stir . |
| 2 | I wonder if your people there could give a better answer than what we could . |
| 3 | One formed the impression that its editor gave his readers what he thought they ought to read rather than what they might want or enjoy . |
| 4 | But the next exam on the educational ladder lays emphasis on what people know , rather than what they can do , and is seen primarily as a passport to university entry . |
| 5 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 6 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 7 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 8 | ‘ Virtually all the staff appear to be foreign , sir , other than what one might call the old retainers . ’ |
| 9 | It is a common problem for a woman to undervalue herself , being aware only of what she can not , rather than what she can , do . |
| 10 | A mind like hers had never been trained to encompass a vast concept or to accommodate any larger vision than what she could see with half-closed eyes . |
| 11 | They 've told her she 's had three years more than what she should of had , she 's living on borrowed time , but , erm , she said the ho er |
| 12 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 13 | It was always easier to say what such a school should not be , rather than what it should be . |
| 14 | She came , just gon na tell you that she 's gon na put erm more brandy in than what it should have in . |
| 15 | you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part . |
| 16 | Well I can choose what I do n't want to do more than what I can do , that 's easier to you know . |
| 17 | If you wait the full five years , the pension will be one-third higher than what you would have received at age 60 . |
| 18 | And even today hut sections can still be bought and despite the fact that they 're forty years old the quality of the wood in them is often better than what you can buy today . |
| 19 | Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have |
| 20 | His voice softened when he saw her reaction and became more confident , as though he could now say what he wanted rather than what he ought to say . |
| 21 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 22 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 23 | I 've had some basics we got some nice , cos what we 'll do if we have a set is stick it on the bench , we 've got this foam cleaner , we spray it with the foam cleaner and clean it and when th |
| 24 | cos what we 'll do we 'll go out for a meal in the evening |
| 25 | Yes that , that is very possible cos what we could actually do is erm we could , we could put it under your life and then we could put it into a trust , a flexible trust . |
| 26 | Erm , cos what you would do is you would er , reset that whole range , that whole range , that whole range , that one and that one , that one , that one , that one . |
| 27 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 28 | If what I will call the hypothetical cost test is adopted it will come very close to a market value test . |
| 29 | The thing is putting the if what you can round a bed is n't it , you can ? |
| 30 | Somehow , she had a need to know all she could about him — and in there lay the conflict — because whatever she would have asked , or learned , was not for any write-up which she might hand over to her sister for her use , but was private and personal , and for her alone . |