Example sentences of "[prep] what [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sports doctors at a conference in Austria have concluded that female competitors produce better results in sport after what is daintily referred to as a ‘ turbulent amorous event ’ . |
| 2 | Considerations such as these would seem to lead inevitably towards what is often called a ‘ representational theory of the mind ’ . |
| 3 | Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense . |
| 4 | In 1992 , the wooden huts those codebreakers worked in , on the edge of what 's since become Milton Keynes , are threatened with being demolished . |
| 5 | Obviously , we that right , people will still move if unemployment 's high , but if you try , if the government tries and gets rid of unem urban unemployment , say people have moved because of it , so there 's unemployment there to start with because of the reasons we 've discussed earlier , so then the government said okay , well let's get rid of the unemployment that has occurred already , by erm , either , at the same wage rate trying to well yes , the same , they 'll keep wage rates the same , but erm , increase , you know , make the public sector bigger or , or do something to create urban jobs , and basically all it will do is , encourage more migrants because they 'll see the probability of getting a job will increase so the expected wage will increase so you 'll get migration on top of what 's already occurring . |
| 6 | The whole of what 's usually called the Intelligence Community 's feeling a bit frisky at the moment . |
| 7 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 8 | I do n't believe that you have any idea of what 's really going on in a country or culture until you live there . |
| 9 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 10 | Recording sessions in the '90s are well organised , with musicians having at least some idea of what 's about to go down . |
| 11 | Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed . |
| 12 | While Huntington has identified much of what is generally understood as conservative thought there is one aspect , which is of particular importance for our task , which he seems to underemphasize . |
| 13 | In other words , Britain has been ruled by a government of what is generally regarded as the normal British kind — a single-party government with a majority in the House of Commons , capable of getting its measures on to the statute book without open or tacit agreements with any other party — for only 54 of the 84 years of this century . |
| 14 | The popularity of the area , which attracts some 2000 hired boats and 3000 private craft in the summer months ( Crawford 1985 ) , is gradually causing the impoverishment of what is generally considered to be one of Britain 's most attractive wetland areas . |
| 15 | Again this is a distortion of what is generally happening in the courts , where sentences are lighter than this average , so newspaper readers have contrasting images of many acquittals and many long sentences . |
| 16 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed this selection of propositions reads like a summary of what is generally taken to be de Man 's contribution to the theory of language . |
| 18 | Defenders of camp and machismo point out that they are parodic critiques — in the first case of what is allegedly insulted ( femininity ) , in the second of what is allegedly aped ( masculinity ) . |
| 19 | Defenders of camp and machismo point out that they are parodic critiques — in the first case of what is allegedly insulted ( femininity ) , in the second of what is allegedly aped ( masculinity ) . |
| 20 | What occasions might be suitable , however , are not clearly apparent , and are certainly not part of what is conventionally regarded as diagnosis and/or medical decision-making . |
| 21 | Yet without a secure nation-state the scope for development of what is conventionally identified as social policy is severely limited . |
| 22 | Any enquiry into what is in the minds of others is not only an exploration of what is consciously expressed by people but is also about interpreting what is unconsciously believed . |
| 23 | Examining Groups are encouraged to extend the scope of what is traditionally regarded as the ‘ canon ’ of English Literature in recognition that awareness of the richness of cultural diversity is one of the rewards of the study of literature : ‘ The majority of texts studied must be literary texts originally written in English which may , for example , include American and Commonwealth writing , but works in translation may also be included . |
| 24 | If it is the case that what teachers need to know , and to experience , can not be continued within the limits of available time , then either that time must be extended , or some part of what is traditionally included must be curtailed or omitted or postponed to in-service training . |
| 25 | This is not just a matter of what is traditionally thought of as ‘ social policy ’ . |
| 26 | This anthropocentric view and attitude is one facet of what is frequently identified as the realism of the fabliaux . |
| 27 | In both cases we seem to be dealing with a subordinated racism which becomes ‘ common sense ’ as a result of its articulation through a dominant but non-racist ideology of competitive individualism — a situation which is the exact opposite of what is normally argued ! |
| 28 | It must be stressed , in this connection , that the ‘ poetic ’ text in question is not necessarily a part of what is normally described as poetry , but can be any form of literature that possesses aesthetic or artistic properties . |
| 29 | In the South East developable land is scarce and there is a powerful environmental lobby ranged against further development of what is already perceived as a congested and overheated local economy . |
| 30 | To be European in Italy is a logical extension of what is already assumed to be one 's natural multiple identity within a family , a city , a region and a nation . |