Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awards are nice for the day , and they glitter — my mother has got all mine and she polishes them within an inch of their lives , she 's polished all the gold glitter away and it 's base metal underneath , and I think that 's a fairly apt analogy of what a prize is . |
| 2 | The earlier version of English at Nottingham as " elegant dabbling in belles-lettres " stiffened by Anglo Saxon and philology , now made way for a more Leavisian model : " My conception of what a School of English should be was considerably clarified by my reading of Dr. Leavis " notable essay entitled " A Sketch for an English School " in his Education and the University . " |
| 3 | One may say , of course , that Marcel is shocked simply because he has a foolish , a foolishly romantic conception of what a writer should look like . |
| 4 | Likewise , the novel plays with normative paradigms such as those proposed by Greimas which seek to standardize narrative by defining it according to a canonic conception of what a story is . |
| 5 | Because as well as the band 's set , we 're interested in the larger scope of how we are affecting the audience , how what we 're doing affects the audience 's conception of what a gig should be , if you like . |
| 6 | Based on his earlier assessment of what a deal is worth , Belhaven is probably worth a round-the-world cruise . |
| 7 | It was my own ; product of boarding school , university , the accent of what a sociologist once called the Dominant Hundred Thousand . |
| 8 | D : Well I do n't think you 're ever going to get it except by civil disobedience because it 's part of what a government 's all about , they have to defend the country . |
| 9 | Once , what a child learned came partly from parents , partly from participation in local society , partly from practice , and much from teachers and schoolbooks ; today , a large part of what a child knows comes directly from the mass media . |
| 10 | For many within the Roman Catholic Church the remote , emaciated , ascetical figure of Pius XII remains the paradigm of what a pope should be . |
| 11 | After this baseline assessment was obtained patients were randomly allocated one of two typed information sheets which contained a simple description of what a hernia is , why surgery was necessary , and what the operation entailed . |
| 12 | Another reason for norm-referenced tests not providing a description of what a pupil knows and can do is the lack of clear specification of learning objectives , at least as far as the formulation of pupil performance on the test is concerned . |
| 13 | I 've had I think more experience of what a rape in court than Sir Nicholas . |
| 14 | So that 's a little quick rundown of what a mapping is , |
| 15 | Benjamin remarked , tellingly , that it is less a question of what a man 's beliefs are than the kind of man those beliefs make of him . |
| 16 | It 's all a question of what a writer can use , what the work in hand will let him use . |
| 17 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
| 18 | Because it imposes constraints by reference to what a person says , the section clearly sets limits to freedom of speech , and if too stringently enforced , is a potential threat to the civil liberties of the individual . |
| 19 | The distinction between what a writer has to say , and how it is presented to the reader , underlies one of the earliest and most persistent concepts of style:that of style as the " dress of thought " . |
| 20 | One such was the Duke of Richmond who found Sussex in the 1740s in the midst of what a number of local historians have rightly described as a ‘ guerilla war ’ . |
| 21 | This is because when people try to translate an APR into what a loan will actually cost them they generally still seem to assume that an APR of , say , 10 per cent on a $100 loan would mean a credit cost of $10 — regardless of the period of the loan . |
| 22 | One of the fascinations of the industrial world is that there are no limitations of any sort on what a company can achieve if it wants to . |
| 23 | We could insert ‘ Christian truths ’ ( or doctrines or promises ) for ‘ Christian presuppositions ’ , but I prefer to speak this way to focus attention on what a presupposition does rather than on what it is . |
| 24 | ‘ They 'll be too busy consoling each other and agreeing with each other about what a bastard I am . ’ |
| 25 | They agree that the clothes horse analogy is too crude a way of conveying the relationship between what a thing is and the fact that it is . |
| 26 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 27 | Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them . |
| 28 | This property of superposability both enshrines the pure mathematician 's abstract concept of what a vector space is and it also provides the perfect way in which to mirror the nature of quantum mechanical states . |
| 29 | Perhaps , instead of seeing the whole operation as a put-up job , we ought to accept a changed concept of what a fifty-year-old looks like . |
| 30 | If , however , a whole series of such objects was encountered , the child might be forced to accommodate its basic concept of what a table was in order to take in these experiences . |