Example sentences of "[conj] what [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What gives this paper its particular importance in a philosophical sense is that it implicitly raises questions about the nature of knowledge in social work — or what we take to be knowledge about social work . |
| 2 | Or what we see of ourselves in someone else . |
| 3 | The songs are of different types , the most important being solo madrigals which Caccini says should be sung with ‘ una certa nobile sprezzatura ’ ( ‘ freedom' or what we understand as ‘ rubato ’ ) . |
| 4 | She is his wife , whether married in church , or what we call over here his common-law wife . |
| 5 | Giving very young children too much choice over when to get up , what to wear or what they eat for breakfast can be a recipe for disaster — acrimonious arguments , delays and tantrums . |
| 6 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 7 | Sometimes they leave their fingerprints there so they get what 's known as the Scenes of Crime Officer or what they call like all po well like all forces |
| 8 | EVER wondered what sounds influence our local bands , or what they think of the national and local music scenes ? |
| 9 | It takes a great deal of sensitivity to provide activities which stimulate the patient 's interest , without exhausting him or making him frustrated if he can not achieve what he wants or what you hope for . |
| 10 | However , some people are more affected by nerves than others so be ready to take this into account and to give people a chance to rethink or rephrase an answer , especially if it seems out of keeping with previous answers or what you know about them from their c.v . |
| 11 | Eighty five of you said yes your parents did a good a job , now , I do n't know who your parents were or what you mean by your parents or indeed how many you have , so let's ask , simply an informational question , were you brought up by a mother and a father ? |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't really think that has a thing to do with what you wear or what you have on your face , do you ? ’ |
| 13 | I do n't know if you would agree with that or what you think of that , and one might to combat that if you agree that is does exist ? |
| 14 | Could you give me some idea of what you 've found out , or what you feel on the subject . |
| 15 | ‘ You appear to know who I am , but you still have n't told me who you are or what you want with me . ’ |
| 16 | If you ca n't get your own way or what you want by openly and honestly asking for it , do n't use sly or surreptitious methods because they could backfire and land you in the soup . |
| 17 | If you ca n't get your own way or what you want by openly and honestly asking for it , do n't use sly or surreptitious methods because they could backfire and land you in the soup . |
| 18 | He suggests that the end product of medical education should resemble ‘ a well stocked library capable of updating and cross referencing ’ and emphasises the importance of ‘ elaborated learning , ’ in which students find that what they learn in various parts of the course ‘ fit together ’ into a useful , coordinated whole that they can continue to use long after the relevant examination is over . |
| 19 | As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it . |
| 20 | Some religious traditions emphasise that certain events in the world can be considered to be God 's actions , and have claimed that what we know of God is derived from our interpretation of these events . |
| 21 | ‘ Soul ’ is established as a category containing phenomena as disparate as Professor Paul Davies ' conviction that what we know of the universe points to a grand design , Miriam Rothschild 's delight in the beauty of her biological subject matter , and Oliver Sacks ' realisation that his patients ' brains do not resemble computers . |
| 22 | The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can . |
| 23 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 24 | For while an objective attitude carries with it a certain distance , and a recognition that what we think of as natural responses such as gratitude or resentment are out of place , reactive attitudes confirm our beliefs about the expectations people have of one another in society . |
| 25 | ‘ Ever and again comes the thought that what we see of a sign is only the outside of something within , in which the real operations of sense and meaning go on ’ ( 140 ) . |
| 26 | They would have failed to recognize and acknowledge that what we have on the basis of sense-experience is worth having , and worthy of the name of knowledge . |
| 27 | The point is that what we have in the life business is a cash flow statement , and no p&l account . |
| 28 | In particular , the conviction still remains that what we have in all these experiments is a series of adaptive responses , induced by training , to obtain the numerous rewards on offer throughout the training . |
| 29 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is appalling that the Opposition whinge on about the failure of this country to export , when we know that what we need from both sides of the House is unanimity to help exporters and not complaints about them ? |
| 30 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |