Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 2 | Many leisure activities would hardly figure because we can only value them as ways of relaxing from engagement in what really matters . |
| 3 | The phrase group conversion is simply an easy inexact description of what really happens . ’ |
| 4 | But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 . |
| 5 | Now Allan Lamb 's revelations must make the ICC stage a full-scale investigation into what really went on at Lord 's last Sunday morning . |
| 6 | They wo n't send over the 2,000 word revelation on what really went on in the referee 's room at Lord 's , when the Texaco Trophy ball was changed , until BT fix the fault . |
| 7 | Noticeboards have been scrubbed clean of posters , walls of daubed slogans and minds of memories of what really happened . |
| 8 | So I was surprised to encounter one firm with a collection of what really did look like my sort of junk . |
| 9 | That is the nub of what really bothers Mr Gorbachev . |
| 10 | The shops , launderette , barber 's and butcher 's — with their mesh grilles on the windows — are full of theories on what really happened . |
| 11 | How could you simplify your life , to create time and space for what really matters to you ? |
| 12 | If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used . |
| 13 | This crisis — believed , through ignorance of what really constituted a legal marriage , to be of world-shaking dimension — further compounded the prevailing atmosphere of gloom . |
| 14 | Pre-trial defence disclosure — this should focus the minds of the jury on what really matters in the case which they are trying by identifying the key issues before the trial . |
| 15 | It was a pogrom against New York Jews , said Mr Giuliani — a daft remark that simply suited his purposes by provoking another row over what really happened . |
| 16 | A progress background can teach you a lot about what really happens if you 're aiming to be an account executive . |
| 17 | With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise . |
| 18 | To do my kind of job on TV you have to be born with an insatiable curiosity about what really makes people tick . |
| 19 | There are a few in the field of Art education today , ill-informed about what really took place in the West Riding in the 1950s and 60s who say , " Oh yes , that was about drawing from observation , with youngsters making copies from natural objects " . |
| 20 | This stark view of what really matters has touched off a spirited debate and will occupy us in Chapter 5 . |