Example sentences of "[adv] what a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another . |
| 2 | So what a shame . |
| 3 | A Lockean ‘ idea ’ is not just what a word stands for if it is to be meaningful . |
| 4 | But I do n't think we realised just what a hero Mansell is to the public . |
| 5 | Saying a picture of somebody crying would make somebody gloomy is prescriptive. it could be just what a person needs to see because they would not feel alone , they could identify with it . |
| 6 | But since I 've realised just what a bastard you are I 'm afraid I 've rather lost interest . |
| 7 | Part of being selective is that it is also necessary to simplify the world in order to try to see more clearly just what a discipline can say about aspects of the world . |
| 8 | Stuttgart in the last round was a reminder of just what a power they can be . |
| 9 | As she looked into it , she tried not to let slip just what a luxury this was . |
| 10 | And Sporting looked down and out when the irrepressible Gavin Peacock struck twice on half-time to show just what a coup it was when Keegan persuaded him to stay at Newcastle . |
| 11 | Before looking at some specific examples it is as well to have some idea of just what a mathematician means by a ‘ helix ’ because scientists have taken liberties with the word in looking for terms to describe the world . |
| 12 | BENEFICIAL gets another chance at Goodwood today to demonstrate just what a loss he is to the Derby . |
| 13 | Any shell structure subject to bending and torsion puts heavy shears into the skin and bending and torsion are just what a ship , especially a sailing ship , receives at sea . |
| 14 | It 's only then that you realise just what a dictatorship can be like . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We appreciate just what a disaster this decision must be for them … |
| 16 | That makes me furious ; it should be the music , not what a person looks like , or how fat her thighs are . |
| 17 | The duty is thus a subjective one , requiring the directors to act ‘ bona fide in what they consider — not what a court may consider — is in the interests of the company ’ . |
| 18 | It 's not a fucking beard , that 's not what a beard l if he could ever grow a beard like that I 'd bloody give him |
| 19 | Even my father repeated " It 's not what a man has but what he 's going to make . " |
| 20 | ‘ Jason was here when I came , proving that it 's not what a player costs but what he does that counts . ’ |
| 21 | One might say , of course , that this is not what a dictionary should do . |
| 22 | . Are there 's a playful one coming , ah , been called away what a shame . |
| 23 | One of the other things that leads off from a job analysis by finding out exactly what a person 's supposed to do is that you can start doing things like a personal training log , cashiers , cash sell this is a word this is real life example . |
| 24 | Mr Nigel Lawson was rude and arrogant — exactly what a chancellor should be . |
| 25 | A tenant needs to know exactly what a landlord can and can not do — and what legal rights there are if problems crop up . |
| 26 | For the Archdeacon , who had , in fact , never seen the Venetian Lido , had been reared in the Close at Salisbury and , making some allowance for scale , had known from childhood exactly what a church should look like . |
| 27 | This might involve learning about exactly what a panic attack is . |
| 28 | She sincerely hoped that she could make it to the track before any car came because she knew exactly what a mess she looked . |
| 29 | It was difficult to look haughty and defiant when she knew exactly what a mess she looked and still held the memory of why she had got into this state . |
| 30 | The labels should say exactly what a product contains . |