Example sentences of "of what they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to functionalism , it is useful to categorize environmental stimuli on the basis of what they mean to a subject rather than on the basis of their gross physical characteristics . |
| 2 | I ca n't for the love of me understand the leadership of all the unions that allowed , we do n't even get enough holidays of what they get on the continent , we should be asking for more , not taking them off us or putting it in October to celebrate Nelson and Trafalgar because I could n't give a monkey for 'em . |
| 3 | In a few cases , staff and parents ' views were downright contradictory , for example , when asked if staff kept them fully informed about their child 's progress , a number of parents felt staff tended not to tell them about their child 's good points whereas staff said that most of what they said to parents was positive . |
| 4 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 5 | The ancient communities , at every level of their being , and in their virtues as well as their vices , were implacable custodians of what they imagined to be their rights . |
| 6 | Although the form of English pronouns reflects their number and gender , it almost always depends on the semantic number and gender of what they refer to , rather than to any linguistic property of the names of their referents . |
| 7 | When hearing children first start to read they are able to make use of what they know about words and the sounds they contain . |
| 8 | Here , as with most of Shostakovich , the content they locate is a projection of what they know of its circumstances - by which only a heart of stone would not be moved . |
| 9 | This , bu but is n't that only because of what they learnt from |
| 10 | Directly related to this theme is the second major concern of libertarian writers : the roots of what they regard as the élitist , coercive nature of the regime established by the Bolsheviks . |
| 11 | That is , Mrs Whitehouse and the traditionalists within the Church were extremely critical of what they perceived to be the ‘ character ’ of modern society , and their solution was largely backward-looking , dominated by the desire for the retrieval of a ‘ bygone golden age ’ where traditional religious teachings and the Church generally were a more central part of the social fabric . |
| 12 | The older , rusticated students were moved by appeals to their sense of national duty ( as well as by threats ) , while the younger students wished to revive anti-Japanese feeling because of what they perceived as the ‘ second Japanese invasion ’ . |
| 13 | The Dennis case was by no means unusual : many of those employed had encountered some form of what they perceived as racialism in the transition from school to work . |
| 14 | These were primarily treaties between the Great Powers for the promotion of what they perceived as the benefit of the regional or international community . |
| 15 | It was not long after the unearthing of the Phillips curve that economists and , later , policy makers came to grasp the full force of what they thought to be its implications for the conduct of demand management by the monetary and fiscal authorities . |
| 16 | Find out when he last called and try to get an impression of what they thought of him . |
| 17 | Those who were called upon to defend non-payment of what they owed beyond the promised date were , as they had always been and were to go on being , in the minority . |
| 18 | They sent letters appealing to customers to pay part at least of what they owed in 1955 and within a week the £600,000 had been reduced by £150,000 . |
| 19 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 20 | They were like astronauts landing on the moon and finding footprints in the dust , or like the mountain climbers in Jules Verne who , having at last reached the summit of what they take to be a virgin Himalayan peak , find a sign saying : M. Durand , Dentist , 14 rue Caumartin , Paris . |
| 21 | The feature of Althusser 's view that repels his liberal critics is his neglect of what they take to be a central distinction between the essential and contingent properties of individuals . |
| 22 | They have achieved much of what they sought concerning changes in documents which affect their everyday lives , so as to accommodate their new life-style . |
| 23 | Most Regions have got all or most of what they requested on their Annual Plans and in subsequent memos . |
| 24 | Between the ideologues and monetarists of the New Right , and the revisionist Marxists of the New Left , defenders of what they took to be the post-1945 social order floundered unhappily . |
| 25 | In the end they were committed , as he was , to the preservation of a Protestant Ulster , to the suppression of what they saw as a republican rebellion , and to the restoration of majority rule in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 27 | The musicians involved in punk were also intensely wary of what they saw as the control exercised over popular music by the major record companies . |
| 28 | Irene Schwidurski said : ‘ They come and tell us their stories of the weekend ; or they come because of what they saw of it on ( Western ) TV . |
| 29 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 30 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |