Example sentences of "[pron] [is] a [noun] [prep] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 2 | Indeed , she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships . |
| 3 | Okay right so there 's a s there 's a system to what 's going on with the acids and it 's not just one acid like hydrochloric most of the acids will do it some of them do it very readily some of them you have to get the conditions right often you have to get the temperature high to make it to make the reaction go but a metal plus an acid erm there 's a typical one zinc H two S O four gives zinc sulphate and the hydrogen . |
| 4 | There 's a mill near what has come to be known as Wigan Pier . |
| 5 | What are you doing with it there 's a competition for what , for a monologue ? |
| 6 | Erm I do n't think , do n't think there 's a year since what ? |
| 7 | I 'm not sure if there 's a name for what I suffer from . |
| 8 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 9 | I think there 's a connection with what 's happening on Nicaea . ’ |
| 10 | Hilary Wade , town museums curator , said : ‘ There 's a glimpse of what life was like in the typical Celtic roundhouse , the harsh realities of life on the land in a farming community , as well as the facts behind the Celts ’ grisly reputation for human sacrifice . ’ |
| 11 | There 's a limit to what I can endure . ’ |
| 12 | GUIL : There 's a limit to what two people can do . |
| 13 | There 's a limit to what can be done on those little caravan stoves they provide us with . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 's a limit to what you can think about God . ’ |
| 15 | But I , I , I think there is a conflict between what we would regard as being a , an acceptable subsistence level and what it would appear that the peasants could possibly have been achieving . |
| 16 | Decisions are needed to resolve problems , when there is a choice about what to do . |
| 17 | However , there is a question about what a naturalized epistemology can offer by way of an explanation or justification of the contributions to knowledge that we make by contributing to an ongoing process of inquiry : we want to know , in such cases , not how we have arrived at the truth , but how what we do can be understood as contributing to the fact that someone else ( or perhaps ourselves ) can arrive at the truth at some time in the future . |
| 18 | I think that there is a majority for what the hon. Gentleman refers to as reform within the United Kingdom when that case commands a majority in the House . |
| 19 | In an average middle-class house , people convert the garage to a workshop and tack on conservatories and put sheds in the garden , so I think there is a misunderstanding about what they want . ’ |
| 20 | All of this forms a central part of Locke 's answer to his initial question about the extent of human knowledge , and whether there is a horizon between what we can and can not know . |
| 21 | In terms of institutional study , there is a dislike of what I think is rather sourly thought of as high culture and high art , and in favour of communications , which can be awfully boring and not terribly rewarding . |
| 22 | Which is precisely the point : if there is a politics to what has become known as poststructuralism , then it is articulated in this passage which unnervingly weaves capitalist economic exploitation , racism , colonialism , sexism , together with , perhaps unexpectedly , ‘ History ’ and the structure of the Hegelian dialectic . |
| 23 | There is a strange tribe that believes in spells , psychometric assessments and incantations , and there is a tribe of what Beverley , Devon 's mother , calls real people . |
| 24 | ‘ There is a gap between what he says he is doing with film and what he actually does . |
| 25 | However , as with every part of the curriculum , there is a wider perspective to be taken into account , and that is the fact that there is a limit on what an individual teacher can achieve if he or she is not working in harmony with the rest of the school . |
| 26 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |
| 27 | The annual models provide good publicity at the Motor Show , but surely there is a limit to what can be done to a car that has to be instantly recognisable by its shape ? |
| 28 | There is a limit to what a force of some 900 inspectors in the field ( 700 general inspectors and 200 specialists ) can do in practice . |
| 29 | As long as we accept that there is a limit to what can be done and that in no way 's detracted from fire station . |
| 30 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |