Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] what [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Parisian-born chef of the early nineteenth century brings to perfection — or to what at the time is considered perfection — a grandiose dish of sole in a white wine and cream sauce with a ceremonial garnish of freshwater crayfish , fried gudgeons , oysters , mushrooms and prawns impaled on ornamental skewers . |
| 2 | The results of these studies were published extensively in catalogues of private and public collections , and in what in French are termed catalogues raisonnés , that is to say complete lists of artists ' works . |
| 3 | I mean we could all spend all day discussing that particular issue but up until the decision is made and which road they 're gon na go down we do know it 's gon na be banding but on what on what basis is it gon na be ? |
| 4 | This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader . |
| 5 | Moderator I 've asked for this new clause to come in immediately after seven because of what in accepting seven we 've just done . |
| 6 | No mention about the difficult task that the County Council 's got in living within a budget , a capping level of three hundred and seventy million , and it would be reasonable , in in a , in a , in a sense that when somebody 's proposing opposition to a budget , it gives some indication as to what within the budget , would have to be cut . |
| 7 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |