Example sentences of "what one [vb mod] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the pelagic trilobites , individual graptoloid species are very widespread , which is what one would expect of an animal with the wide ocean as its habitat . |
| 2 | Their search led , by the middle of the 1940s , to a compound , 2:6-diaminopurine , which had effects in mammals and chicks ‘ about what one would expect of a substance which interferes with nucleic acid metabolism in some way ’ . |
| 3 | How many of the 200 knights should be counted as members of Lisiard of Amboise 's household can not be determined ; the number is rather more what one might expect of the household of a great prince . |
| 4 | The other tracts which were written by Lothar before he became pope show a pastoral concern , an interest in almsgiving , in sin , in penance , in the sacrament of marriage and in the priestly office ( " De sacro altaris mysterio " ) : perhaps what one might expect of a Paris theologian of this period . |
| 5 | Diphtheria and measles , against which mass vaccinations have also been instituted , showed fairly abrupt falls immediately after introduction of the respective vaccines and indicate what one might expect of a successful programme . |
| 6 | The igneous and metamorphic rocks form what one can think of as the bones of the landscape , covered by sedimentary sequences of varying depths ( muscles , internal organs ? ) , and a thin skin of Quaternary ( Ice-Age ) material and new soil . |
| 7 | And they had fought for their country in 1939 when the Irish Republic remained neutral which was , after all , just what one could expect of rebels who had taken advantage of Britain 's involvement in the First World War to stage the 1916 Easter Rising . |