Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawing shows what the city and port was like in about 1200 AD . |
| 2 | First , it is hard to accept that the subsequent payments figure reflects what the organization ‘ cost ’ to run during the year . |
| 3 | Rather , this chapter asks what the implications are for the administrative system , should a state develop corporatist tendencies . |
| 4 | I am going to have to take Proby up on his offer but Gawd knows what the interest will be . |
| 5 | Kenneth says what a joy it is to be back on one of the Great Western ’ Castles ’ . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , every other person I speak to who 's been in Manchester 's Dry Bar relates what a mess he looks . |
| 7 | The question is one of the proper interpretation of the words enacted by Parliament and it could be that the Act does what the committee thought was not practicable and what they did not intend to do . |
| 8 | this young lady knows what a cleaver is really . |
| 9 | The activity of state officials constitutes what the elite has chosen as its solution . |
| 10 | The passage was not some ghastly simile of war or territorial domination ( though heaven knows what the Iranians would have made of it ) , but just a pictorial explanation of the passage North said he read them next , from the third chapter of Galatians : ‘ Know ye therefore that they which are of faith , the same are the children of Abraham . ’ |
| 11 | While our minds may boggle at the difficulties which exist now , goodness knows what the scene will be after 1993 . |
| 12 | The therapist assesses what the patient should start with : he automatically starts with a pyjama jacket , if he has difficulties with this . |
| 13 | And if they go a goal ahead in Turkey , the home-team are going to kick hell out of them and hopefully side-line most of them until the New Year ( and god knows what the crowd will do — have you ever seen Midnight Express ? ) |
| 14 | Albeit for different reasons , Boris Yeltsin knows what the duke meant . |
| 15 | Dunedin has what the Book of Records claims to be the world 's steepest street , with a gradient of 1 in 1.4 . |
| 16 | One quote from ‘ Yoga Today ’ ( Vol. 12 No. 4 , August 1987 ) will illustrate how the religious philosophy surrounding Yoga contradicts what the Word of God reveals about God and His relationship to the world and man . |
| 17 | In order to arrive at its findings , the European Commission does what no court in this country can do , namely sit in judgment upon the policy and justification of an Act of Parliament . |
| 18 | Men in particular may find this is a problem when the idea still persists that being able to hold your alcohol proves what a great guy you are . |
| 19 | The good Lord knows what a dirty , loathsome task it was : the crowded houses , and the stinking sewers which smelt like a boiling cauldron in the heat of the city . |
| 20 | ‘ God knows what a creature like this might have been capable of had it realized its ruse had been discovered . |
| 21 | God knows what the North must be like , you feel , if Wolverton is like this ! |
| 22 | God knows what the King will decide to do . |
| 23 | ‘ All I could do was scream down the phone — God knows what the listeners made of it . ’ |
| 24 | God knows what the two of them are up to together . ’ |
| 25 | That 's well over three thousand miles and God knows what the roads are like south of Valparaíso , if there are any . |
| 26 | God knows what the next move is . |
| 27 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 28 | I am going into the field to-morrow against King Henry 's army and against the Earl of Kent in particular , and God knows what the outcome will be . |
| 29 | Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’ |
| 30 | At least the rabbits wo n't know that Frank Cauldhame did what he did to them , the way a community of people knows what the baddies did to them , so that the revenge ends up having the opposite effect from that intended , inciting rather than squashing resistance . |