Example sentences of "to what [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , he might find it interesting ( and salutary ) to read ( see , for example , [ 71 ] , [ 115 ] ) how such great mathematicians as Euler , d'Alembert and Daniel Bernoulli came , around 1750 , to arguing about their respective solutions to the " vibrating string " problem essentially because their ideas as to what constituted a function did not coincide . |
| 2 | If the justices had applied the wrong criteria as to what constituted a breach of the peace in the case of the mother-in-law , it is difficult to see how the court could have been so sure that the justices had applied the right criteria to the decision of the policeman . |
| 3 | Consumer groups claimed full and clear labelling of food products would be preferred , which would enable customers to choose between similar products and ‘ to decide for themselves as to what constituted the best quality at a given price . ’ |
| 4 | Although there is nothing in the early Merovingian period to compare with the concern shown by the eighth-century Anglo-Saxons as to what constituted the prohibited degrees of marriage , there was considerable worry about uncanonical sexual relations . |
| 5 | At all times Eisenhower was guided by strong views as to what constituted the best interests of the United States and its allies — even if in pursuit of those ends he felt obliged to act so vigorously against Britain and France . |
| 6 | Only by looking at what happened can one begin to form a judgement , though , as will be seen , there are conflicting views as to what caused the final catastrophe , while the principal actor in the events has even had doubts cast upon the authenticity of his claims to the leading role . |
| 7 | In ( 2 ) , for instance , the idea of unmanly seems to correspond to what caused the person represented as the support of the infinitive to perform the action of treating a woman badly , and the sentence suggests that the speaker did not expect such unmanly behaviour from the person he is addressing . |
| 8 | So far there are no clues as to what caused the crash . |
| 9 | As in other matters , he showed that typical combination of simultaneous indecision and dogmatic self-assertion in his approach to what became the ‘ Civic Centre ’ of Bucharest . |
| 10 | Market economics clearly makes a number of effective criticisms of demand management , and its emphasis on the limited competence of government to promote economic growth provides at least a valuable corrective to what became the orthodox political economy of the post-war period . |
| 11 | The former led to his organizing opposition within Anglo-Jewry to what became the Balfour declaration ; the latter accounted for his role in the Liberal opposition to the Anglo-Russian entente . |
| 12 | The only route to more empirically grounded theories , according to what became the Lazarsfeldian programme of social research , was to develop suitably confirmed empirical generalisations across a range of studies and problem areas , and this would require the effective translation of concepts into empirical indicators ; translate , that is , concepts into the publicly observable . |
| 13 | He caught a cold on his way to Tangiers which affected his left lung , but this was merely the prelude to what became an unfortunate trip . |
| 14 | Inside the first attic , Léonie had discovered , if you fumbled your way through the dusty darkness to what seemed a cupboard on the far side , you found , within this , a ladder clamped to the wall that led to a trapdoor and thence to a bit of flat roof . |