Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our main argument in this paper is that linguists have not often recognised the need for this sort of justification ; that their views about what is educationally relevant in the field of language study does not always coincide with the concerns expressed by educationalists ; and that linguists and educationalists need to begin a common search for relevance in which the linguists ' knowledge is related to a frame of reference based on the needs of learners and teachers . |
| 2 | On a rocky eminence commanding what was for centuries the lowest point at which the Forth could be bridged , the castle — on the site of a Roman fort — and its steeply pitched town stand between what was once a marshy plain and the shadowy beginnings of the Highlands beyond , with the Ochils and Trossachs already edging in . |
| 3 | American environmentalists are girding their loins in preparation for what is undoubtedly the most important meeting in the whole process . |
| 4 | It can be argued that the art of the actor is but a sophisticated reflection of what occurs in all human action : a struggle between what is privately felt and symbolically controlled ( using ‘ symbolic ’ in the sense of the ‘ public language ’ of number , words , gesture and sound , etc. ) , a perpetual state of disequilibrium between personalising and objectifying . |
| 5 | Certainly it 's the case that there 's a a down side if you like with providing the new roads through what is mostly open countryside . |
| 6 | Hence national levels of support for what is essentially a late-secondary or post-secondary programme , the local organization which supports it and the commitment of teachers who contribute to it at more than one level — all these matter . |
| 7 | Had we known about them we might have paid more attention to the findings of the crime survey which suggested a quite extraordinary level of public support for what is now dismissed as the ‘ political rhetoric ’ of the social worker . |
| 8 | The score is mostly in the handwriting of one or more copyists , who seem to have put it together as Purcell completed the various numbers , leaving blanks for what was not ready . |
| 9 | Thank you for your calls about what 's up there in my loft . |
| 10 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |
| 11 | Quite often , the dream was interpreted as an allegory for what was about to happen to the dreamer . |
| 12 | However , the Law Commission recommend the retention of strict liability for this type of harm on the ground that it provided a simple method of allocating liability for what were usually comparatively small damages . |
| 13 | I regard the father 's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract , a promise in return for an act , a promise by the father to pay £1 per week in return for the mother 's looking after the child . |
| 14 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 15 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 16 | Hammers are now waiting for a work permit for the 27-year-old , who won 18 caps for what was formerly Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | We have a lot to learn from our city cousins in this respect who cheerfully compete with equally excellent traders for what is probably not a much more profitable income when rates and overheads are taken into account . |
| 18 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 19 | Dawkins ( 1976 , 1978 ) has argued strongly that considering the individual animal as the unit of selection is a form of shorthand for what is actually selected down the generations is the gene , or over short time spans , groups of associated genes . |
| 20 | Stanley Kalms , the Dixons chief whose own bid for what was then called Woolworths was repulsed three years ago , said the offer document did not disguise an attempt to acquire his company on the cheap . |
| 21 | As there are thus three entries for what are fairly certainly the deaths of only two men , there is clearly something amiss in these two early texts of Nesri . |
| 22 | There is some argument that the UCTA is doing no more than spell out a rule about what is really voluntary acceptance , which is already in the common law ( ICI v Shatwell [ 1965 ] AC 656 ) . |
| 23 | Fourthly , as the example of the ‘ Church Struggle ’ showed , Hitler was widely viewed — even by prominent Church leaders with a reputation for hostility to Nazism — as personally sincere , and in matters affecting established traditions and institutions as a ‘ moderate ’ opposed to the radical and extreme elements in the Nazi Movement , but largely kept in the dark about what was actually going on . |
| 24 | " Lawlike connection " is simply another term for what was earlier ( 1.3 ) called fundamental nomic connection or fundamental necessary connection and for connections related to it . |
| 25 | AEA has enormous strength in technology transfer and I will be aiming to use my background and experience to help create additional opportunities for what is now such a valuable resource for industry . |
| 26 | Apart from its sheer deliciousness ( most cold lobster sauces , including mayonnaise , are on the heavy side for what is already rich and solid food ) this sauce has other points to recommend it . |
| 27 | what has most carefully to be defined is the specific association of what are really quite unchanged class feelings — a persistent sense of a quite clear line between an upper and a lower class — with very strong and effective feelings of sympathy with the lower class as victims . |
| 28 | The protesters were equally convinced of their belief in the inevitability of nuclear war ; this gave rise to their honest perception of what was immediately needed to protect their property . |
| 29 | The great red bulk of what is popularly known as the ‘ Caley ’ Hotel , dominates the West End . |
| 30 | Animals possess growth , movement and a consciousness of what is not themselves . |