Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 2 | In particular , it is necessary to pay close attention to the relationship of civil society ( within which I will include much of what I mean by a specific urban culture ) and state forms and processes , in a context of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ . |
| 3 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |
| 4 | Now what I mean by an easy question something like |
| 5 | JC : What I remember about the first night was an uncomfortable feeling that the piece was under-rehearsed musically . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 7 | Enough of what I regard as a premeditated incident at Lord 's . ’ |
| 8 | The next fallacy that causes some confusion in the discussion is the persistence of what I regard as a narrow outdated approach to the notion of sovereignty . |
| 9 | It meant that I could still do what I regard as a worthwhile job . |
| 10 | Let me describe what I regard as the best conditions of all for bream fishing . |
| 11 | Various other lines of defence to this action were raised by Mr. Ashworth and I will now consider those in case I am wrong on what I regard as the central issue . |
| 12 | I refer to what I regard as the Labour party 's organised disruption of yesterday 's debate . |
| 13 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 14 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 15 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 16 | ‘ What I like about the three guys is that they actually care about that . |
| 17 | While I could not afford to buy new books , I get what I like from the local library . |
| 18 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 19 | " From what I know of the previous accounts the Winter Marsh investment — or error of judgment — is one of the main causes of the group 's present financial difficulties . " |
| 20 | ‘ My experience at The Dorchester and what I know from the Four Seasons Inn on the Park ( Four Seasons recently acquired the Regent Group ) , shows me that there is a market which appreciates the best service and is prepared to pay £200 a night and more for it . ’ |
| 21 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 22 | Did you hear what I said about the tall fair man , dear ? " |
| 23 | What I said to the other group , partly because they had a , an hour before the lecture is that I 'll use next week with them , as , as an introduction to the poetry of this period . |
| 24 | What I said to the Prime Minister was that he should answer that part of the question to him that was in order . |
| 25 | What I said at the last committee was I merely advised the committee that if they went ahead in this current financial year that the grant would not be available . |
| 26 | If there were nothing more to it than this , I would only be repeating what I said in the previous chapter about the persistence of facies . |
| 27 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 28 | This is an important part of what I intend by the transnational capitalist class ( TCC ) , but with two important differences . |
| 29 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 30 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |