Example sentences of "from what be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience for the Library 's exhibitions was drawn very largely from what are traditionally considered ‘ middle class ’ occupational groups , and almost half of it ( 47% ) was composed of academics , students , and the retired . |
| 2 | An analysis of their replies showed clearly that the great majority of them came from what are traditionally considered ‘ middle class ’ occupational groups , and that academics , students , and retired people ( the majority of whom were retired professionals ) accounted for just under half of all visitors . |
| 3 | The extent , however , to which that marks them off from what are typically thought of as more ‘ objective ’ features of the world in which we live depends on how far one thinks that has a character independent of any form of sentient experience . |
| 4 | Most of this information comes not so much from what is happening but from what is not happening . |
| 5 | To cause minimum inconvenience to the locals , the flight commander calls an end to the tactical phase of the exercise and we begin a climb from What is colloquially known as the ‘ weedosphere ’ up to the dizzy height of 1,000 feet . |
| 6 | Because of the limited recruitment and early retirements in recent years , most of their teachers will come from what is loosely known as the ‘ Sixties generation ’ . |
| 7 | These also involve processing within the brain but are slightly different from what is normally meant by thinking or drawing on memory and experience . |
| 8 | Thus it is clear that " true " or " false " neither add nor detract from what is actually asserted on a given occasion . |
| 9 | PPBS and zero-base budgeting would demand a different objective classification of expenditure and income from what is currently provided . |
| 10 | The sudden change in writing or in speech from what is deeply moving or sublime to what is foolish or unimportant . |
| 11 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 12 | Tectonic plate movement may well have split the Ghat , cutting off Sri Lanka from what is now Travancore . |
| 13 | This significant paper endeavoured to extend geomorphology from what is now appreciated to be a functional viewpoint towards a more realist view , as indicated by the aim ( Strahler , 1952 , p. 923 ) : |
| 14 | Such archived information is frequently used in research because it is more or less free ; but , to avoid fallacious conclusions arising from what is usually called secondary analysis , we must be prepared to think critically about the source , reliability and consistency of the data involved . |
| 15 | However , even if it is a matter of putting different variables in boxes on a sheet of paper and following through likely relationships qualitatively — a far cry from what is usually meant by systems analysis — it is a further intellectual advance on the black box approach to ‘ social factors ’ . |
| 16 | Bush appeared to have recovered from what was later described as gastric influenza by the following day , but this was the second occasion within a year that the health of the 67-year-old President — and the possible succession of Vice-President Dan Quayle — had become a major news issue [ see p. 38183 ] . |
| 17 | Even such dancing as he saw there was out of doors and quite different from what was later to occupy him . |
| 18 | Thus , ‘ mental illness ’ was seen as a label by which genuine human responses to oppressive social conditions were reduced to mental faults , requiring technical ( in this case medical ) solutions ; for a while the ‘ new deviance ’ attempted to incorporate writers as different as R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz from what was temporarily known as ‘ anti-psychiatry ’ . |
| 19 | The name commonly adopted for the library automated catalogue , " online public access catalogue " or " OPAC may have acquired a different meaning from what was originally intended . |
| 20 | The demand for equality and social justice — that everyone must be the same — derives from what was originally envy . |
| 21 | We used to have student teachers in from what was then called Borough Road Training College . |
| 22 | Cajuns were originally French/Canadian settlers , driven out by the British in the mid-18th century from what was then called Arcadia , now Nova Scotia . |
| 23 | Uncle Fred left four sons , two of whom had followed him into the Marines and a widow , Aunt May , who suffered from what was then referred to as shaking palsy . |
| 24 | It was at a family gathering , though one very different from what was now taking place in Tace Way , that had first alerted Stephen to the true facts of his descent . |
| 25 | Thus observe has the meaning of mental inference and the to infinitive denotes the conclusion drawn from what was directly perceived . |