Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , just to complicate things at a very early level , it 's often observed that agricultural products have what 's called a perverse supply response , in that there 's a negative relationship between prices and output . |
| 2 | But at the other extreme some manufacturers impose what seems an incredible loading against diesel versions . |
| 3 | Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent . |
| 4 | He also composed more formal poems , including an epithalamium on the marriage of king Sigibert and the Visigothic princess Brunhild as well as panegyrics and poems for the courts of Charibert and Chilperic I. These public poems provide what is perhaps the best evidence for the ideology of the Merovingian court in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 5 | The four volumes of Art of our Time , it can fairly be said , no longer represent the Saatchi Collection , now that so many of its glossy pages reproduce what have become absences . |
| 6 | Similarly , because of the loss of full housing benefit once a person moves off income support , a large number of unemployed families face what has been called an unemployment trap . |
| 7 | Further studies investigate what occurs when a person is faced with a number of faces simultaneously from which one or more may be recognised . |
| 8 | The implications are that , in a way similar to the class analyses we discussed in the last chapter , there is a major discrepancy between the ways in which social scientists conceptualise what is taking place and how people feel and understand what is taking place . |
| 9 | No you want dry hands cos if you touch the food with wet hands guess what happens ? |
| 10 | These dead cortical cells form what the authors call ‘ burned-out plaques ’ made of the neurotransmitter 's degradation products . |
| 11 | A comparison with wet nursing shows up certain similarities , not least because it highlights the way in which fashion , prejudice , and moral attitudes dictate what are the perceived duties of motherhood . |
| 12 | When all these are paid , ordinary shareholders get what is left , which is usually not much . |
| 13 | The following paragraphs suggest what sort of privileges such users might be assigned . |
| 14 | The following paragraphs suggest what sort of privileges such users might be assigned . |
| 15 | The witty ones ask what it 's like to fly . |
| 16 | The igneous and metamorphic rocks form what one can think of as the bones of the landscape , covered by sedimentary sequences of varying depths ( muscles , internal organs ? ) , and a thin skin of Quaternary ( Ice-Age ) material and new soil . |
| 17 | I may be told that this is an academic quibble since our democratic politicians know what is of constitutional significance in our way of government , approach such matters differently from other reforms , and are politically if not legally constrained . |
| 18 | These views reflect what has since been recognized as a ‘ prevailing ideology ’ in ‘ the British literary-journalistic establishment ’ of the 1950s — — in which Snow 's influence as a reviewer played a considerable part . |
| 19 | These animals have what are called lateral line organs along their head and body . |
| 20 | So its own spiritual , moral and psychological characteristics affect what it remembers . |
| 21 | Local and national broadcasters outline what they want from independent producers . |
| 22 | These principles are expressed as follows : ( 13 ) The co-operative principle make your contribution such as is required , at the stage at which it occurs , by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged ( 14 ) The maxim of Quality try to make your contribution one that is true , specifically : ( i ) do not say what you believe to be false ( ii ) do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence ( 15 ) The maxim of Quantity ( i ) make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange ( ii ) do not make your contribution more informative than is required ( 16 ) The maxim of Relevance make your contributions relevant ( 17 ) The maxim of Manner be perspicuous , and specifically : ( i ) avoid obscurity ( ii ) avoid ambiguity ( iii ) be brief ( iv ) be orderly In short , these maxims specify what participants have to do in order to converse in a maximally efficient , rational , co-operative way : they should speak sincerely , relevantly and clearly , while providing sufficient information . |
| 23 | At the very least , these models suggest what might have existed and how the few sites that have been detected may be interpreted . |
| 24 | … These circumstances create what is perhaps the administrative dilemma . |
| 25 | These judgements define what is taken as acceptable or unacceptable professional behaviour . |
| 26 | Instead , he maintains that our general belief that experience is a reliable guide can not be justified , since all promising justifications assume what is at issue by supposing that experience can reveal that our experience is a reliable guide . |
| 27 | It is much more satisfactory to say that these statements show what the speaker believes or feels , if he is speaking sincerely and correctly . |
| 28 | ’ ‘ Members of the aspiring middle class hankering after nobility , ’ he continues , ‘ these paintings offer what they most of all dislike : a celebration of the people . ’ |
| 29 | If the white officers ask what you will do , you answer , ‘ Nothing to talk about . |
| 30 | Taken together these observations highlight what is in my view perhaps the major challenge facing research libraries in the 1990s , namely to develop a model whereby consultation of our cultural inheritance manifest in print and manuscript form can be beneficially combined , and handled conjunctly with , access to electronic information in a wide variety of forms . |