Example sentences of "of what [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |
| 2 | It is a matter of common sense that part of what we respect in persons is a technical appreciation of the sheer range of possibilities associated with them . |
| 3 | Not all of those , of course , as already noted , are reasonable-above all , any wholesale dismissal of what we get by direct awareness is entirely futile . |
| 4 | This immediately raises the question of what we mean by the separation of two particles A and B. It seems the best we can do is argue that the two particles A and B can be considered as separate only when the individual wave packets cease to overlap . |
| 5 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |
| 6 | Indeed we no longer employ the word with full assurance , or are confident of what we mean by philosophical ‘ materialism ’ , now that we are forbidden to think of atoms as little balls out of which a universe could be constructed ; twentieth century physics has less substantial entities which would slip through one 's fingers . |
| 7 | However , it has been pointed out — most recently by Stan Gooch in his Cities of Dreams ( 1989 ) — that this is to take a rather narrow view of what we mean by civilization . |
| 8 | At the most general conceptual level of what we mean by good neighbouring , the ideas are tapping very thorny problems of the sources of social cohesion and solidarity . |
| 9 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 10 | That , after all , is part of what we mean by ‘ professor ’ : x is so on top of his or her subject that he or she has something to profess , to convey , to teach . |
| 11 | We so much take these matters for granted that we forget that these abilities are constitutive of what we mean by ‘ higher education ’ . |
| 12 | This argument , which amounts to a discussion of what we mean by a miracle , will occupy the rest of this chapter . |
| 13 | This brings me to the final topic that I want to discuss in this rather philosophical chapter , the problem of what we mean by explanation . |
| 14 | Do all of what we take to be causal circumstances and causes precede their effects ? |
| 15 | The houses and cottages are of brick or half-timbered , and it has more of a feel of the Midlands than of what we imagine as Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | Unfortunately most of what we know about Coleman is related to the last decade or so of his life . |
| 17 | We are taught not to focus on the more difficult aspects of what we know about other people . |
| 18 | It requires that we look not to things , not to the world , but instead to the validity of what we know about things or the world … . |
| 19 | Another approach , exemplified by Vygotsky and Donaldson , supposes that children 's pictures — like all other aspects of their behaviour — must be interpreted in the light of what we know about the context in which the picture is produced and the culture in which the child operates . |
| 20 | Radar studies of Venus began in 1961 and have revealed much of what we know about the Cytherean surface . |
| 21 | They have furnished a good deal of what we know about Jupiter . |
| 22 | But it is the Liber Censuum , compiled in the last quarter of the twelfth century and incorporating many of these earlier texts , by the papal chamberlain , Cencio Savelli — later to follow Innocent III as pope — that provides us with most of what we know about papal finance . |
| 23 | Let us begin then with a brief review of what we know about the ego 's past in order all the better to be able to understand something about its present and future . |
| 24 | It is a fair enough summary of what we know about the working lives of most women . |
| 25 | Most of what we know about echolocation comes from bats ( and human instruments ) , but it also occurs in a number of other unrelated groups of animals . |
| 26 | And yet much of what we know of him today comes from Ireland . |
| 27 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |
| 28 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |
| 29 | It is that our knowledge surely starts from what our five senses tell us and can extend beyond this direct experience only to generalizations of what we know by experience . |
| 30 | Well er if you looked at the I 'll give you one or two averages and and I have to say that these are figures that are a mixture of what we know from the industry and what we what we know from our own company . |