Example sentences of "of what [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bright new layout of the Wexford shop is a fare-runner of what every branch nationwide will look like in due course . |
| 2 | To express such thoughts is to feel oneself uncomfortably situated between opposed concepts of what a university is . |
| 3 | In the meantime , it is very pleasant , and indeed it 's salutary , to remind ourselves , as we are doing this evening , of what a university is actually about . |
| 4 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
| 5 | It 's all a question of what a writer can use , what the work in hand will let him use . |
| 6 | One may say , of course , that Marcel is shocked simply because he has a foolish , a foolishly romantic conception of what a writer should look like . |
| 7 | The remedy could have been more appropriately applied if those prescribing it had offered us a clearer understanding of what a clause is and how far it may be similar to various other structures . |
| 8 | Voters were unimpressed by this pre-echo of what a decade later became known as ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ , and in 1974 Labour suffered the largest drop in any opposition party 's share of the vote since Britain became a democracy . |
| 9 | I suddenly became aware of what a mess I looked . |
| 10 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 11 | I 'd got a fumbling schoolboy with no more idea of what a girl needed than the man in the moon . |
| 12 | Given some aspects of what a sentence conveys in a particular context , is that aspect part of what the sentence conveys in virtue of its meaning … or should it be ‘ worked out ’ on the basis of Gricean principles from the rest of the meaning of the sentence and relevant facts of the context of utterance ? |
| 13 | Therefore y it does not matter whether there is will or not because it passes to the survivor independently of what a will may say . |
| 14 | Kristin continues : ‘ A lot of the songs deal with the agoraphobia versus claustrophobia dilemma : the problem of what a home is , when do you leave it , how are you going to make yourself a home . |
| 15 | Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them . |
| 16 | Yes , and this is why I want to look at this week at a glance diary , so that you will go away and I want you to fill this in as I 'm filling in on the board , you 'll go away with an idea what a diary , sorry , spit there , ha , erm , of what a diary will look like roughly , so that you know what your diary should look like every week . |
| 17 | Perhaps , instead of seeing the whole operation as a put-up job , we ought to accept a changed concept of what a fifty-year-old looks like . |
| 18 | His life 's work in setting up homes for people with disabilities was ‘ a shining example ’ of what a person could achieve , she said . |
| 19 | Accurate observation of what a person is doing is not easy . |
| 20 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 21 | I mean maybe there 's an issue about how to cope with war , but that probably is related to fundamental aspects of what a person 's all about in their psychological make up . |
| 22 | The question whether the curriculum is relevant or not is often posed in terms of what a child may need to know , when he leaves the protective environment of school . |
| 23 | a gloss in traditional orthography of the observer 's interpretation of what a child intended to say ; |
| 24 | Once , what a child learned came partly from parents , partly from participation in local society , partly from practice , and much from teachers and schoolbooks ; today , a large part of what a child knows comes directly from the mass media . |
| 25 | The critical reader of a poem needs to have some idea of what a poem is , which need not be a theoretically sophisticated idea , and some acquaintance with poetry already . |
| 26 | This , a particularly wide and extraordinarily far-reaching implication , obviously lurks within the interstices of the decision in Corbett Ormrod J. was no doubt acutely aware of what a decision in favour of Miss Ashley could be construed as meaning , even if in fact it were limited , it can be on the arguments advanced above , to its particular and very u usual facts . |
| 27 | After this baseline assessment was obtained patients were randomly allocated one of two typed information sheets which contained a simple description of what a hernia is , why surgery was necessary , and what the operation entailed . |
| 28 | The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character . |
| 29 | [ See Fig. 1 ] ( To get an idea of what a tetrahedron looks like in three dimensions , look at one of those awkwardly-shaped cardboard milk cartons . |
| 30 | But the seminar could never do the whole of what a novel does , since theory falsifies where stories teach wisdom . |