Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This true story may encourage you : Some years ago , after what he now describes as " no education " Alan got a job as a messenger boy in a London agency . |
| 2 | Even after what I just learned I could n't believe you 've been lying to me since we met — that I was coming back to ask you — ’ |
| 3 | Most of their important critical texts , Edwards remarks , are theoretical , in that they prompt fundamental reflections about the basic nature of writing , even if , ‘ One notices about such writing that it does not necessarily offer itself as theory , that it is directed towards what we now call literature and not towards something else . ’ |
| 4 | He turned and looked back into the room and towards what she dimly made out to be a number of people . |
| 5 | Not knowing more than that , we had a long drive up the Conon before we came on the church — which is sited right below what we thereafter called ‘ The Conon Corbetts ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Well they had this sale of nylons twenty-eight cents below what I usually pay . |
| 7 | So there are educational erm resources erm as well as others and in my view one of the great gaps that 's starting er that 's growing and growing in the world is the difference between educational patterns in the more advanced world and that in some parts of what we normally call the Third World . |
| 8 | That 's just a note of what we just did . |
| 9 | On the basis of the evangelising role of Judas Thomas , Dr Herman Koester speaks of a Thomasine tradition , in contrast to the Pauline tradition of what we today call Christianity . |
| 10 | We were celebrating the anniversary of what we most adored : an enigma . ’ |
| 11 | This would be an on-going promotional campaign along the lines of what we already do , but with more co-ordination and the addition of posters and a greater number of redesigned Promotional leaflets ( to replace existing ones ) . |
| 12 | So , at one level , all the idea of ‘ metacriticism ’ does is to remind ourselves of what we ordinarily take higher education to be . |
| 13 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 14 | We 've been brought up to know that it ca n't last and we 're deeply suspicious of what we disdainfully see as decadent ‘ beach bimbos ’ . |
| 15 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 16 | Information systems in the body act at subtle levels in minute , trace amounts and the scale of the homoeopathic remedies is in keeping with much of what we now know about biological integrating and controlling mechanisms . |
| 17 | But on their return , Diana is already starting to look thin with evidence of what we now know was bulimia . |
| 18 | Much of what we now know about the tool-using behaviour of wild chimpanzees has come from the remarkable long-term studies carried out at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania by British primatologist Jane Goodall . |
| 19 | Again the virgin birth , in view of what we now know of human reproduction , has become highly suspect for people . |
| 20 | Much of what we now know , in a still difficult and very controversial area , about different kinds of ‘ televised violence ’ and their differential effects on differently situated children , or about the effects of different kinds of political broadcasting — party statements , electoral reporting , definitions of the ‘ main issues ’ — has come from this kind of research . |
| 21 | It is this second concept which has caused all the trouble , certainly ( for example ) in view of what we now know about the very different world of early Precambrian times . |
| 22 | That is presumably the product of what we now know about the Brixton prison escape . |
| 23 | Between 1 846 and 1873 the social and ecological pattern of what we now regard as the traditional English village became firmly established , particularly in the lowland South and East . |
| 24 | It has become apparent that the success of evolution theory in the late nineteenth century was not based on acceptance of what we now regard as the most important components of Darwin 's thinking . |
| 25 | ‘ That is the history of what we now called Travel Related Services , ’ says John Petersen . |
| 26 | Egyptian papyri , Greek myth and medicine , Roman history , the Old and the New Testaments all contain examples of what we now recognise as psychotic episodes ; some of them , like the legend of Orpheus , associate creativity and psychosis . |
| 27 | So was the whole epistle an elaborate begging letter , or was it voicing a loss of nerve , a fear of life , an attack of what we now call angst ? |
| 28 | This , called the Thulean Province , covered much of what we now call the north Atlantic Ocean , but over thousands of years , much of it sank again beneath the waters . |
| 29 | Though the antecedents are ancient , it was not until the 1960s that one could begin to see the beginnings of what we now call global competition in other than oil and similar natural resource-processing industries . |
| 30 | In the case of what we now call ‘ the arts ’ , and above all in painting and sculpture , a different form of organization developed , in the academy . |