Example sentences of "what we [vb base] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exchange has roused the analyst to contributions that are firmer and more energy-consuming than those he generally vouchsafes : ‘ it 's not the past but what we make of the past that shapes our future and present . ’ |
| 2 | I think Mr Wright realises he has produced a piece of special pleading that does not wholly stand up , but it is difficult not to feel sympathy with his assertion : The past can not be changed , but what we make of it certainly can . |
| 3 | Like any tool ; cable TV is what we make of it . |
| 4 | But , you see the thing about it is we have got a take towns for what we make of them you see we could just all sit back , people say they 're bored ! |
| 5 | The desire to gain affection and approval from its owner can be a prime motivator for the horse to try and do what we ask of it . |
| 6 | A horse 's degree of willingness , cooperation in learning new things , agreeableness in doing what we ask of it , are most important traits in a horse 's temperament if we wish to enjoy riding it ; yet it is an aspect of the horse that is more overlooked than any other when someone is thinking of buying or breeding a horse . |
| 7 | What we know of the family shows that it enjoyed its privileges to the full , and shared a positive and happy lifestyle , without hardship , yet without vaunted excess — a balanced lifestyle , despite his indispositions . |
| 8 | Such assumptions are quite contrary to what we know of how perception works . |
| 9 | Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up Pound 's ideas about the right relation between artist and patron against what we know of how patronage in fact worked in the ducal fiefs of Renaissance Italy ; and when he deals with the closeness of Pound 's views on this and related matters to Ruskin 's ideas ( a theme common to all these essayists ) , Robinson dares to broach the too long forbidden topic of the poet 's antagonism — inertly received , so some would say , rather than considered — to Christian faith and Christian ethics . |
| 10 | The intention in this chapter is to document some of the resources Easton 's policemen and women draw on in accomplishing their work , with a view to demonstrating the similarity in the way they ‘ do ’ ordinary policing compared to what we know of policemen and women in societies without Northern Ireland 's extreme divisions . |
| 11 | But from what we know of local practices It would seem that she must have been crucified Very near an ant-hill . |
| 12 | This essay untangles what we know of Rose of Lima from modern concepts of anorexia , neurosis or masochism , or the easy definitions of patriarchal oppression through which contemporary interpreters are tempted to explain the penances of women saints . |
| 13 | Some religious traditions emphasise that certain events in the world can be considered to be God 's actions , and have claimed that what we know of God is derived from our interpretation of these events . |
| 14 | What we know of other people is learned in a similar manner . |
| 15 | For Christians , God 's activity becomes associated not only with particular events but with a particular set of human actions , those that characterise what we know of the life of Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 16 | We also believe that these intimate , naive glimpses of a lost past have a wider interest just because what we know of the history of later life from inside is so meagre . |
| 17 | From what we know of primitive races it is highly probable that the incentive for producing these paintings was magical , the object being to fix in paint on the wall or ceiling of a cave an event — usually the slaying of an animal — which it was hoped would be effected in the future elsewhere . |
| 18 | From what we know of modern witchcraft practices , we can speculate that the stone circles were used for dancing and that this was a method of raising power ( similar to the ‘ cone of power ’ that witches use today ) which could then be stored in the stones to be used when required . |
| 19 | Granted what we know of the history of the city it is clear that the vast majority , as probably the similar multiplicity in many other English towns , were built between the tenth and the twelfth centuries , and that the multiplication of parish churches was especially characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 20 | In virtually equating doubt and unbelief they make doubt the opposite of faith in a way that is true neither to the Bible nor to what we know of human knowledge . |
| 21 | ‘ Soul ’ is established as a category containing phenomena as disparate as Professor Paul Davies ' conviction that what we know of the universe points to a grand design , Miriam Rothschild 's delight in the beauty of her biological subject matter , and Oliver Sacks ' realisation that his patients ' brains do not resemble computers . |
| 22 | The purpose is to compare what we know of spoken language interpreting and its effectiveness with developing awareness of the needs of deaf and hearing people in using BSL . |
| 23 | The book so far has described what we know of BSL and its status as a natural language . |
| 24 | The ritual imagery of the Ring of Minos is nevertheless consistent with what we know of Minoan religious practices and it does offer some additional support for the idea of a sea-shore cult involving both fixed shrines built on the land and portable shrines ferried coastwise by priestesses . |
| 25 | Froggy 's murder , and even the attack on me , simply does n't fit in with what we know of Jefferson or Harley or even Martinez . |
| 26 | There is certainly a great deal to substantiate this distinction in what we know of early Greek thought … |
| 27 | We are inclined to think they are pretty typical , given our less detailed work at other football grounds and what we know of other groups of schoolchildren . |
| 28 | The same principle obtains if a man permits his personal belief to derange dramatically the laws of probability and what we know of human nature . |
| 29 | From what we know of him , Simon Peter would have been a typical ‘ adherent of the message ’ . |
| 30 | Certainly this is the single most crucial event in what we know of Jesus 's public career prior to his triumphal entry into Jerusalem ; and Christian tradition reinforces John 's importance to the story . |