Example sentences of "[noun pl] of what [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vaill sought to identify the characteristics of what he described as ‘ high-performing systems ’ in organizations , and ‘ human systems that perform at levels of excellence far beyond those of comparable systems ’ . |
| 2 | The various versions of Goody 's case comprise major characteristics of what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 3 | Wilde , Shaw , Shakespeare , and Tree , the four authors of what he called his ‘ revelations ’ , were all to be subjects of his biographies . |
| 4 | Erm having produced that report and having erm er done the follow up on it , it does n't seem to me that it would be reasonable for the general assembly to expect that the Board would come back year after year with repetitions of what we 've already said , and that 's why the commissioner notices that erm we do n't report this year on child abuse . |
| 5 | ‘ I received … . images of what they do , but it was so garbled and confused … . ’ |
| 6 | We are taught not to focus on the more difficult aspects of what we know about other people . |
| 7 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 8 | I simply wished to describe the most specific and doubtless least familiar , aspects of what we have done . |
| 9 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |
| 10 | ‘ They should get credit for the informal aspects of what they did , and their staff work was superb ’ , says , a senior associate with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment . |
| 11 | They represent some aspects of what I have called the representation problem , and it is only through further investigation of that problem , and by becoming clearer about how the various kinds of norm could relate to our biological inheritance , that we can come to see much about what biological constraints there might be , beyond the obvious ones , on social and ethical arrangements . |
| 12 | The thesis of Jakobson 's ‘ Closing statement ’ is that in poetic language relationships of equivalence or similarity not only concern absent items , but also become dominant present factors in the verbal sequence — that the two aspects of what he calls the ‘ bipolar structure of language ’ ( 1956 : 78 ) in a sense merge . |
| 13 | Get a few packets of what you want . |
| 14 | They did so and informed their clients of what they had discovered ; they then returned the papers . |
| 15 | Many newspapers compile lists of what they consider to have been the best novels of the previous year — a useful guide to what readers might try to get hold of . |
| 16 | The other reason is that the demands of what you advertise and for whom also changes — you do n't often find people in advertising complaining of boredom . |
| 17 | And then those months of what he chose to call nervous fever … |
| 18 | There followed about ten minutes of what I guess you 'd call foreplay . |
| 19 | That depends crucially on how seriously we are to take the actors ' own accounts of what they do . |
| 20 | Thus , criteria of competence only become evident when policemen and women give accounts of what they assess as ‘ good ’ police work in real-life settings ( p. 45 ) . |
| 21 | Locke 's references to ‘ Substance ’ or ‘ substratum ’ have become notorious , and there are different accounts of what he means by them . |
| 22 | The newspaper Noticias-El Diario printed photocopies of what it claimed was a 1961 report by Paraguayan police agent Pedro Prokopchuk to Antonio Campos Alum , the chief of political police . |
| 23 | Next , it must notify the concerned states of what it has done — another condition that Libya has fulfilled . |
| 24 | Patricia Morgan plumps for this timescale in her critique of the ‘ New Establishment ’ of social workers , psychologists , teachers and other exponents of what she calls the ‘ New Socio-Psychological Expertise ’ of child care and education . |
| 25 | They want to have total creative control of their own development , and I like bands that have really strong views of what they want to do . ’ |
| 26 | I had slides of the tumour , cross scans of what it looked like and where it was . |
| 27 | A point may be reached when the external stresses on any level become so great that in order to defend , repair and maintain order in the system the healing powers produce symptoms and signs of what we call an illness or disease . |
| 28 | 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 : |
| 29 | The deeper reason for our doubt — and faith — is that even what we know rests only on the foundations of what we do not know . |
| 30 | There 's loads and loads of what you trimmed off the . |