Example sentences of "that what [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though Douglas on the surface was more generous , more giving than his sometimes taciturn elder son , Shiona recognised that what they shared in common was that fierce individuality and sense of purpose that had brought Douglas , through his own efforts , from rags to great riches . |
| 2 | At the time both critics and audiences were fairly certain that what they liked about these films was their wit , their tempo , their sensational hints of violence and sex , their authentic urban feel , and the utterly realistic acting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The men who ruled India were aware that what they referred to as their prestige would in the end by compromised by too obvious a reliance on resort to arms . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of my constituents believe that what they voted for in the referendum on Europe was a single market , not a single currency ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The point is that what we have in the life business is a cash flow statement , and no p&l account . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Counselling empathy requires constant testing because we can never be certain that what we believe to be the feelings and attitudes of the counsellees are accurate . |
| 19 | So my beliefs constitute an extremely important constraint on my behaviour and , bearing in mind that what we believe to be right or wrong is , to a large extent , learnt behaviour , that we do not inherit such beliefs , it is obvious that the source of these beliefs has to be seen as a major constraint on , and determinant of , our behaviour . |
| 20 | He noted that the Education Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , had also been invited to attend , adding : ‘ I have been led to believe that what he lacks in understanding he makes up for in bravery . ’ |
| 21 | Erm it may be that what he said in court was purely bluff . |
| 22 | Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't . |
| 23 | Useless at the moment to try to touch her , to convince her that what he felt for her was love and a pity so enormous that it was almost unmanning him . |
| 24 | He had once heard an Englishman say that what he knew of nuclear physics could be written on the back of a blackcurrant . |
| 25 | I always thought that what he lacked in defensive qualities he made up for in attacking qualities . |
| 26 | And yet I would n't dismiss out of hand Auden 's claim that what he says of our family life holds as true of Coronation Street as of Lowndes Square . |
| 27 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 28 | In 1694 Jean Gailhard wrote a pamphlet urging that the annual commemoration of 30 January and 29 May be stopped , arguing that the sermons delivered on that day helped perpetuate the country 's political divisions , though it is clear that what he objected to was the fact that these days helped promote a Tory vision of government in Church and State , since he himself did not believe anything done during the reigns of Charles I or Charles II was worth commemorating . |
| 29 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 30 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |