Example sentences of "[noun] of what [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1869 , Francis Galton , who founded the Eugenics Laboratory ( which in 1905 became a Department of University College under the direction of Karl Pearson ) , recommended a programme of what later became called positive and negative eugenics . |
| 2 | In addition , close scrutiny of any one part of the process quickly reveals additional questions about how such developmental changes take place in the light of what still appear to be impoverished and often infrequent learning opportunities ( Shatz 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Er , now the the point I really want to refer to is erm just what role an auditor ought to play er in the er insurance and financial service industry in looking at particular firms , erm I have several interests which the honourable member for Edinburgh central knows about , er the one that I think is relevant er to tonight is that I am an elected member of the insurance brokers registration council and the way that erm the way that we regulate insurance brokers erm is laid down by statute but it does actually demonstrate the advantage , the benefit of erm of having a statutory requirement for audit and for er a proper oversight of what then follows in terms of the way that the regulator reacts to what the auditor may say . |
| 4 | There are conflicting accounts of what actually transpired during these interviews . |
| 5 | Accounts of what actually occurred during the morning of Oct. 8 were contradictory . |
| 6 | So impressive are these abstract figures that their creators have travelled the world to be part of what almost amounts to an International Circus of skilled performers , all by invitation and with expenses paid ! |
| 7 | The phrase group conversion is simply an easy inexact description of what really happens . ’ |
| 8 | For a variety of reasons this type of explanation must be rejected today and the explosive diversification of Metazoa across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary , as recorded in the strata , is now generally accepted as being a true reflection of what actually happened ( Stanley , 1976 ; Seilacher , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | I will remove my veils one by one , as I demolish , in turn , the proponents of these cardinal precepts of what today passes for Socialism in the People 's Party . ’ |
| 10 | By the end of each track , so many fleeting emotions and ideas have slithered past , only a sparse recollection of what just went before remains . |
| 11 | Everything happened so quickly that I have no very clear recollection of what actually took place . |
| 12 | So far the question of what exactly constitutes biological inequality has not been answered . |
| 13 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 14 | Ministers when they come to Committees should assume that other Ministers have read their papers and time should not be spent on an oral regurgitation of what already appears in writing in the paper . |
| 15 | We are arguing , on the basis of what actually happens in classrooms , that a purist adherence to any methodological orthodoxy can generate considerable problems , that these need to be addressed openly , and that in any event the notion that the act of teaching can be made the subject of procedural mandates is suspect and unrealistic . |
| 16 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 17 | In any single game , a computer will make enough mistakes to illustrate a whole textbook of what not to do . |
| 18 | The internationalism of the leaders and cadres of national liberation movements in the Third World is more obvious where such movements played a leading part in the liberation of their countries than where countries were decolonised from above , for the post-independence breakdown of what previously operated , as a united movement of ‘ the people ’ is more dramatic . |
| 19 | That 's one trophy in 37 years , none in the last 19 ; hardly sufficient to warm the cockles of what once cared to call itself the hotbed of soccer . |
| 20 | Governors will have a clearer picture of what actually takes place in school . |
| 21 | There are two perceptions of what actually happened in the village that day . |
| 22 | on top of what usually happens annually . |
| 23 | Noticeboards have been scrubbed clean of posters , walls of daubed slogans and minds of memories of what really happened . |
| 24 | The point I would like to put over is , I 've listened to one or two erm , radio programmes , and television programmes about this and I personally would like to have more evidence of what actually happens to the animals . |
| 25 | The implicit curriculum is what is received through the total impact of what actually happens in school . |
| 26 | ‘ Cab , sir ? ’ barked barbecued Bill the driver , raising the charred relic of what once had been his cap . |
| 27 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 28 | It is when they become ‘ over-drivers ’ that problems occur : people concentrate on ‘ being perfect ’ to the exclusion of what actually needs to be done . |
| 29 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 30 | Now , what in fact had been watered down from your original keenness in the late sixties in terms of what actually emerged in that White Paper ? |