Example sentences of "of what [pers pn] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any one would like to find out more of what we 've been doing — just let us know . |
| 2 | Now of what we 've been doing today with fractions was there any of it that you 're not quite sure of and you think , But could you just tell me about that bit again . |
| 3 | where we 've got to with our recycling initiative , and then we can look at that grant in the light of what we 've been told by Carol . |
| 4 | out of what we 've been doing with this . |
| 5 | In 1958 then , I was a member of what we knew was the premier force in the area with the external boundaries of the adjacent forces as our immediate threshold to what Douglas ( 1966 : 137 ) had called ‘ new status ’ . |
| 6 | Jean McSorley , secretary of the local protest group , said simply , ‘ If just a quarter of what we hear is true , that place should be shut down ’ . |
| 7 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 8 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 9 | ‘ Implementing [ by ] a planned training programme — too much of what we do is done ‘ as and when ’ we have the money , time , staff availability , planning time etc ’ . |
| 10 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 11 | Look , the question of what we want is a sociological one , which we answer by asking people , or by observing their behaviour . |
| 12 | What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women . |
| 13 | JAZZ DANCE has caught on slowly in this country , and most of what we see is attendant on musicals , cabaret acts or pop videos . |
| 14 | Simply to decide upon the basis of what we think is best for them can be a form of prejudice . |
| 15 | Let's look at this matter of what we think is plausible . |
| 16 | When asked how the tree came about she said ‘ Well , it 's just like God to make something useful out of what we think is rubbish ’ — a comment which referred not only to the fruit but also to her own convict origins . |
| 17 | We observe only outcomes of what we presume is the exercise of power , and are forced into conjecturing what would have occurred if power had not been exercised . |
| 18 | Erm as the notes to this table indicate , it is a compilation by the panel secretary of what we believe is before us . |
| 19 | The beauty of what we have is that even if some of the programs we currently possess will not provide the sort of answer we want , we can always write one that will . |
| 20 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
| 21 | We are proud of what we have been able to do . |
| 22 | I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering . |
| 23 | The extraordinary collection of 20th century art that opens this month to the public at New Hall , Cambridge gives us all a chance to see how rich this history is and much of what we have been missing . |
| 24 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 25 | He brightened as he recalled some of what they had been told . |
| 26 | The estimated time to get to sleep after going to bed was reduced to a quarter of the baseline levels , and reports of difficulty in getting to sleep were reduced to a third of what they had been . |
| 27 | Unfortunately they were shipwrecked and lost much of what they had been given . |
| 28 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 29 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 30 | Vaisey J went on to say that the employers had shown " the utmost carelessness in allowing this defendant to get knowledge of what they knew was a very valuable secret … |