Example sentences of "with what [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One moment I was revelling in the astonishment of being alive , and the next — I was lying flat on my face , with what felt like a very large hole in the right side of my skull … |
| 2 | His hands were tightly bound together with what felt like bootlaces . |
| 3 | It is probable that the actual idea was the synthesis of discussions , but it was the one that Stirling adopted , starting a fruitful partnership with what became known to L Detachment as ‘ The Desert Taxi Service ’ . |
| 4 | In mid-January 1915 China was presented with what became known as the ‘ Twenty One Demands ’ , a call for China to make certain economic , political and military concessions . |
| 5 | With what powers ? |
| 6 | It 's all to do with what happens to the fragments of pumice while they are in mid-air , suspended in the ash cloud above the volcano . |
| 7 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 8 | But The Ancient Mariner is really concerned with what happens when a man upsets the powers of Nature — |
| 9 | ‘ What today connects the life of any European or American with what happens in Australia , Japan or Zaire are repercussions transmitted by the network of market relations . ’ |
| 10 | Contrast what Richter was doing with what happens in the Sun . |
| 11 | As we have indicated , there can be problems in attempting to extract a single institution or rule from a national industrial relations system in order to compare it with what happens elsewhere since |
| 12 | The sociologist of religion does not , however , want to stop with what happens to emerge in the relaxed situation of apparently normal conversation . |
| 13 | Experiments involve comparing what happens in one situation ( the control group ) with what happens in another ( the experimental group ) . |
| 14 | An analogy with what happens in digital computers illustrates this point . |
| 15 | So if you compare critical illness and death with what happens at the time , and I 've got to ask you this . |
| 16 | The cabinet is constructed of ¾″ ( 18mm ) Medium Density Fibreboard , covered with what feels like a tough , lightly textured ‘ Black Dice ’ vinyl , with metal corner protectors , round plastic feet and a single , strong , leather , top-mounted carrying handle . |
| 17 | Fear was there , certainly , and also an inability to come to terms with what had happened , but there was something more . |
| 18 | In the case of childbirth , which in the nineteenth century so often proved fatal , there was a certain disposition — at least among males — to believe that to relieve the pains of labour would be to interfere with what had been divinely preordained ; indeed the Bible could be quoted to this effect . |
| 19 | The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously . |
| 20 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |
| 21 | They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter . |
| 22 | What was happening clearly had no connection with what had been happening before or would , presumably , happen afterwards . |
| 23 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 24 | Forced labour was indeed the form taken by the administration 's next major effort to deal with what had become known as the moran problem . |
| 25 | Therefore Schaffner was forced to take the unusual step of shooting it mostly in sequence , getting on with what had already been written . |
| 26 | This was whether they should present themselves to the voters as a continuation of the Thatcher governments ; or claim that the election of John Major represented such a fundamental break with what had gone before that there was no need for voters to respond to the classical call of opposition on such occasions : ‘ Time for a change . ’ |
| 27 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 28 | Broken glass and dishes were all over the floor mixed with what had been served for dinner — steak , corn and potatoes . |
| 29 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |
| 30 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |