Example sentences of "on what " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush 's recent pronouncements on what is just and moral during the Gulf war left me feeling empty and bitter . |
| 2 | A presenter , after all , knows that a viewer has the visual evidence to check on what is being said . |
| 3 | One has only to imagine what would happen if the books on the shelf behind the sitter 's head were upright , like the others , to realize on what delicate adjustments the solidity of this amazing structure depends … |
| 4 | paradoxically , it is in museums that the market in art is defined , since permanent collections place limits on what is available for collectors to purchase . |
| 5 | Both works end on a possible return , on what might look like a bleak diminuendo but is really an anxiety state . |
| 6 | While the arguments of the defenders of catholic schools have a theological basis , those of the promoters of integrated schooling have been founded on what they see to be the results of the present system , namely a violent and destructive society . |
| 7 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 8 | Many of the pubs which are passed off as ‘ historic ’ to the visitor and tourist prove to be only film-set facades on what are now little more than youthful amusement arcades or glorified fast-food cafes . |
| 9 | Senior research metallurgist for the Cutlery and Allied Trade Research Association , Alan Medlock , says that it depends on what you call 13/0 . |
| 10 | From my place on the gallery I could keep a watch on Claire 's door and on what was happening in the hall below . |
| 11 | Now that the deed was done , I had a chance to reflect on what was likely to happen . |
| 12 | ‘ That depends on what you mean by hope . ’ |
| 13 | Choosing the right bike for you depends on what you want to use it for . |
| 14 | The amount that you are assessed to pay is based on what you should be able to afford to take out as a loan . |
| 15 | For such special knowledge holds the potential for an ethnographic interpretation of police culture which incorporates aspects of ‘ practical mastery ’ ( Bourdieu 1977 ) and to enlarge on what Kuper ( 1973 : 238 ) has somewhat critically dismissed as ‘ the prissy sterility of much of the methodological or reformist sociology ’ . |
| 16 | Nor do they need their daily practice to be exposed to the analytic eye of anthropological ‘ thick description ’ , for in their task-driven world there is little to be gained by reflecting on what they already live and understand . |
| 17 | They home in on what they see as the uncontrolled nature of CID work , and sneer and begrudge the detective his apparent freedom of movement . |
| 18 | How often had this meant an edgy evening , when she had been unable to concentrate on what people were saying because of an ill-placed fabric rose or an over-embroidered antique shawl ? |
| 19 | I will turn finally to experiments on what is now called the ‘ child 's developing theory of mind ’ ( see Astington , Harris and Olson , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 21 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 22 | So , look out for the ‘ New Look ’ not to miss out on what is happening in Age Concern each month . |
| 23 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 24 | These touches will depend firstly on the type of character to be portrayed ; secondly on how their movements will be affected by the unfolding of the plot , theme and/or music ; thirdly on what particular steps , poses and gestures within the total design will be needed to communicate meaning . |
| 25 | Yet Mayerling , although based on what little facts are known of the life of Rudolf of Austria , barely suggests reality . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if you fancy a night in , take a closer look at TV pubs with top critic Hilary Kingsley , while following Barrie Pepper 's advice on what to drink at home . |
| 27 | Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route . |
| 28 | Which one to use depends , to some extent , upon the appearance which you wish to achieve , which may be an oiled or waxed appearance , a high gloss , satin or matt finish , and on what is being finished . |
| 29 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 30 | Such disparate allegiances are more likely to agree on what they oppose than in what they support . |