Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] what [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact possible to take different views about what genuinely constitutes full motion and we address this more fully in section 3.20 below , when we discuss compact disc interactive ( CD-I ) technology . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are two basic reasons for the apparent anomalies in what generally appears to be a steady expansion of the vineyard area : first , the uprooting of old , commercially non-productive vines ; and second , the decimation of large patches of vines due to natural causes like frost , hail , disease , pests , etc . |
| 4 | One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable . |
| 5 | There are conflicting accounts of what actually transpired during these interviews . |
| 6 | Accounts of what actually occurred during the morning of Oct. 8 were contradictory . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The most important expectations surrounding social roles are not just statements about what actually happens — about what a person will do , out of habit and so on — but are norms outlining things which a person occupying his or her status is obliged to do . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They had tried out various ‘ templates ’ — all of them embellishments on what already existed — but none of them had shown the kind of delicacy required . |
| 12 | However , it is this concern that has led students of social policy to give increasing attention in recent years to the activities of that group of public servants who may be called ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ , to ask questions about what actually happens in the exchanges between these people and the public . |
| 13 | This raises interesting questions about what actually does happen to such relationships when the third party is no longer there , that is , when the marriage is broken through death or divorce . |
| 14 | There are two perceptions of what actually happened in the village that day . |
| 15 | Noticeboards have been scrubbed clean of posters , walls of daubed slogans and minds of memories of what really happened . |
| 16 | is quantitatively too great , measurably too great , for us to admit it to our theories about what actually happens . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | The shops , launderette , barber 's and butcher 's — with their mesh grilles on the windows — are full of theories on what really happened . |
| 20 | ‘ And do we have witnesses to what exactly happened ? ’ |
| 21 | Most women gain most of their knowledge of the criminal justice process from the media since few will have attended actual court cases or learnt from friends of what actually happens in the criminal justice system . |
| 22 | But as our studies continue , more and more concealed breaks become apparent , such as the remarkable situation in the jurassic limestones of western Sicily , where several stages are packed away into thin solution pipes in what otherwise look like unbroken limestone sequences ( figure 3.1 ) . |
| 23 | As a result the farm worker is as likely to resent the high wages paid to workers in other industries for what often appears to him to be little skill and less hard work as to harbour a sense of grievance against either farmers in general or his own boss in particular . |
| 24 | There are step-by-step instructions and warnings about what not to do . |
| 25 | He had also married Marina Simionescu in 1980 , a partnership dissolved four years later and enshrined in between times by what now appears a very sad little book , Love Match , Mariana 's ‘ belated wedding present ’ to her husband . |
| 26 | And they are gluttons for what currently seems to be a much scarcer resource : water . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Cash crop exports are politically ‘ safe ’ in the sense that hard currency earnings allow Third World governments to buy in cheap grain to feed their urban populations , and relieve them of the problems of ensuring adequate food supplies from what sometimes appears to be a permanently disgruntled peasantry . |