Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] what [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case the necessities which account for what is constant in foreign policy are those of the conceptual logic of the explanatory theory . |
| 2 | All citizens need a highly concentrated er episode in their lives where all they do is think about what is right in the circumstances and this will give them good practice , good training to being an enlightened voter . |
| 3 | This African talked of his own change of heart , his vision of God 's multi-racial world , of which Rhodesia is a part ; of how he himself had hated the whites , and had now shed his hate to work for what is right for all . |
| 4 | More often Ministers are attracted to what is novel , makes only a limited demand on financial resources , and is not already identified with someone else . |
| 5 | Precisely they drew on what was common knowledge ( that is to say what was believed to be knowledge ) in their day . |
| 6 | Jackson quotes Freud 's view that something has to be added to what is novel and unfamiliar to make it uncanny ; this something is ‘ nothing new or alien , but something which is familiar and old — established in the mind and become alienated from it through the process of repression ’ ( p. 66 ) . |
| 7 | Perhaps you should include one for each section every issue , so you can focus on what 's wrong with it . |
| 8 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |
| 9 | Diane Carr looks at what is available in wheelbarrows and trollies |
| 10 | All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all . |
| 11 | No distinction is made between what is grammatical and ungrammatical . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't tell me you worry about what 's fitting ! |
| 13 | When examining the mathematics curriculum we need to keep in mind that any curriculum consists of choices and selections from what is available , based on decisions made about what is valuable . |
| 14 | And the hungry soul he filled with what is good . |
| 15 | Most would agree that there are no clear-cut answers and solutions have to be sought from what is available rather than from what is desirable . |
| 16 | This one area in fish keeping gets more attention than any other as can be seen from what is available on the market nowadays . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly there is a greater readiness to experiment where there are more , and perhaps younger , people than where the few elderly remaining members of an order cling to what is familiar . |
| 18 | Now that the deed was done , I had a chance to reflect on what was likely to happen . |
| 19 | Their policy-making styles vary according to what is optimal for the function concerned . |
| 20 | So infinity just depends on what 's big enough to swamp the little bit that you 're looking at . |
| 21 | Of course , the appropriate behaviour here depends on what is likely to be going on when no set of bindings seems plausible to the reasoner . |
| 22 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 23 | Such self-indulgence needs to be guarded against what is pleasurable for teachers is not necessarily beneficial to children . |
| 24 | In the airs they compose the French always look for what is sweet , easy and flowing , and for what follows on readily ; everything is in the same key , or if they change it sometimes , they do it with preparations and softenings which render the air as natural and as continuous as if there were no change at all … |
| 25 | Learn to look for what is positive in others and not for what is negative . |
| 26 | When considering the form of review , it seems essential to differentiate between what is appropriate for a child in a temporary or therapeutic placement , and what is appropriate for a permanent family placement . |
| 27 | ‘ We stand for what 's good in our country , so we have to be brave and reveal ourselves . |
| 28 | And he did not want to hear of what was impossible . |
| 29 | Contemporary official standards of crowding , however , still lag behind what is desirable for satisfactory child-rearing practices . |
| 30 | Finally , there is the tension in the design process between the sense of design as a transformative activity , a positing activity , transcendent of the givens of a problem ( in the sense of both breaking with context and with the form of the immediately perceived requirements — design as defining needs as well as solutions ) and design as a posited activity , that which works from the given which deals with what is real not with what is merely planned or speculated or imagined . |