Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let the fresh air clear the wine fumes from his head and , dropping all pretence , began to question the porter on what he had hinted earlier . |
| 2 | This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly . |
| 3 | She wondered then , since Ven was proving so elusive , whether she should take the opportunity on what she estimated would be just under a hundred-mile drive to Prague to get in there with some of Cara 's questions . |
| 4 | Just to convince us that all these things that he tells us about are somehow present , to convince us of the heinousness of what he 's done . |
| 5 | The ideology of what it was proper for women to do remained largely untouched . |
| 6 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 7 | The change from what she was to what she has become is a vast one . |
| 8 | He used it in his study of primitive religion , and in his study of the change from what he called mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity . |
| 9 | Indeed , urging people not to pay their rates to the East End Water Company , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 28 August 1898 ) conjured with the circumstances under which , in the struggle against what it called ‘ Horrible London ’ , even the horrible Hooligans might lend a hand : |
| 10 | The war suddenly incited the full force of Russian nationalism , and Lenin 's emphasis changed to the struggle against what he called ‘ Great Russian Chauvinism ’ . |
| 11 | Er most of the accounts of what I 'm discussing er are pretty well near fiction . |
| 12 | Becky turned out to be as good as her word , keeping the accounts in what she described as ‘ apple-pie order ’ and even opening a set of books for Trumper 's barrow . |
| 13 | On the basis of many years ' detailed observation of infants , they argue for the existence of what they call ‘ innate intersubjectivity ’ as a universal motivation , present in the newborn and peculiar to our species , that leads the child to acquire symbolic understanding . |
| 14 | Harris ( 1982 : 52 ) points out , for instance , that the occurrence of self with the infinitive reveals the existence of what he calls a " subject " , so that , in transformational terms , " To hate oneself is unwise can only come from For one to hate oneself is unwise " . |
| 15 | She could not exactly deny the existence of what she thought of as the stranger within . |
| 16 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 17 | In fact , Plato , who as far back as the fourth century BC had divided the sentence into what we now know as subject and predicate , used the terms ónoma and rhema ( which originally meant ‘ name ’ and ‘ saying ’ respectively ) . |
| 18 | Ward ( 1979 ) noted with alarm the signs of what he called ‘ Frontier man 's fright ’ whereby after working in an area for some time without apparent response from professional colleagues in related disciplines there is a tendency to desert it just as its true worth is to be recognized by others : |
| 19 | She was ‘ enchanted ’ she said , and wrote touchingly : ‘ It gives the measure of what you have had , and what you have lost . ’ |
| 20 | There 's a song , ‘ Bright Lights ’ , which is about doing what you want , outside of the realms of what you were programmed to do and the inner process of achieving those goals ’ |
| 21 | Obviously he had come to the heart of what he wanted to say . |
| 22 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 23 | These inward struggles for wholeness as a person lie at the heart of what it means to be a Christian . |
| 24 | That , I believe , is the real test of our fellowship and is right at the heart of what it means to be a responsible member of a Baptist church practising as we do the principle of congregational government . |
| 25 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 26 | You see , the only trouble with building societies is , it 's the same when you buy a pigging house , they put the money on what you 've actually borrowed every year . |
| 27 | In order to earn her keep Diana joined the ranks of what she now dismissively refers to as the ‘ velvet hairband ’ brigade , the upper-class ladies who fit a loose template of values , fashions , breeding and attitudes and are commonly known as ‘ Sloane Rangers ’ . |
| 28 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 29 | In the case of what we would now distinguish as ‘ arts ’ , an early example is the fourteenth-century Florentine guild , actually that of the surgeon apothecaries but including painters from an overlap of working materials . |
| 30 | In the case of what we now call ‘ the arts ’ , and above all in painting and sculpture , a different form of organization developed , in the academy . |