Example sentences of "but what it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The volume is really little more than a set of expanded notes ; but what it lacks in inspiration on that score , it more than makes up by its sheer usefulness , not least as an examination primer . |
| 2 | But what it lacks in size it compensates for in quality . |
| 3 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 4 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 5 | Worried that his brother might be close to a nervous collapse , he refrained from spelling it out bluntly , but what it amounted to was this : Do n't kick the bourgeois while they are still feeding you . |
| 6 | He used a lot of abstruse terms like " cricoid " but what it amounted to was that she had been strangled . |
| 7 | But what it lost in architectural refinement , it made up in staggering scale . |
| 8 | It 's all classified , but what it amounts to is that we wo n't play the Great Game over here and they wo n't play it in the UK . |
| 9 | How you can be less pro-active than I M R O I ca n't understand or I M R O at that particular time , but what it appears to be me is that erm that if we 're not careful , we 're gon th the pension regulator 's just gon na be a rubber stamp factory . |
| 10 | But what it correlates with is not a gender role but more specifically a child-rearing role . |