Example sentences of "what [pron] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my husband always thought that my in-laws were good to me , because they never criticised me in his presence , He had told them beforehand ‘ I know this girl , what she is like , so I do n't want to hear anything about her from you . |
| 2 | I wonder what she is like at the theatre . |
| 3 | ‘ You know what she is like for fuss . ’ |
| 4 | In between times , a whole psychological scenario is elaborated , in which we piece together the flavour of his anxiety about the pay , his disappointment at not getting the information out of the lady , his interpretation of what she is like ( inferred from her appearance , actions , and conversation ) , his assessment of her son , his misunderstanding of the son 's errand , and his recollection of how he came to be involved in the interview . |
| 5 | But in ( 76 ) with the predicate qualifier the lady and her red hair are intensionally separated ; therefore while it is still possible to use ( 76 ) to the same effect as ( 75 ) , with everything that is constructed with the verb covered by without solid evidence , this notion may also be taken as only related to one of the two extending elements ; that is , Oliver may reliably know her and what she is like — it is her image as red-haired that was constructed without solid evidence . |
| 6 | Says our observer , ‘ Madonna has made herself what she is by ambition , not by training . |
| 7 | I think that what what she is in danger of doing is cutting across what the District Council 's doing , we , er and in East Hertfordshire we are running at a , a composting scheme in conjunction with the County at and I , I , I understand that looks to be very promising . |
| 8 | Professional efficiency is what one is after . ’ |
| 9 | First of all I 'd just like you to have a look at the well what there is on pages forty two and three some of there are cartoons , photographs , adverts just have a quick look at them , six altogether . |
| 10 | WHAT THERE IS FOR CLASSROOM USE |
| 11 | More people , could get benefit out of the five hundred , then there what there is for four . |
| 12 | In one case in the community homes it says staff absence , and I 'm not clear what there is for training purposes , but I would hope that we are checking , or was this simply before Christmas , or what ? |
| 13 | After 10 tumultous years of substantial achievement and disastrous mistakes , the Sandinistas control the army , the unions , the youth movements , much of the media and the money — what there is of it . |
| 14 | After 10 tumultous years of substantial achievement and disastrous mistakes , the Sandinistas control the army , the unions , the youth movements , much of the media and the money — what there is of it . |
| 15 | It may seem absurd to talk in such terms of snooker , or David Jason , or Gold Blend commercials , but much of what there is of a British national culture consists of ( or is mediated through ) broadcasting . |
| 16 | What there is of it . |
| 17 | As with a pair of glasses , presuppositions determine what we see and how we see it , but they do not necessarily determine what there is to be seen . |
| 18 | If they had the opportunity of er looking at it , seeing what there is to be learned . |
| 19 | You and I , Charlie — we 'd better see what there is to be said and what there is to know . |
| 20 | They relate what there is to what , in the authors ' views , there ought to be . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , let us see what there is to be noted , ’ said Hugh shortly , and turned his back upon the slight , submissive figure standing so warily aside from the event he had himself reported . |
| 22 | Figure 10.7 shows an electron micrograph of a synapse from the IMHV marked up to give our interpretation of what there is to be seen . |
| 23 | The opposite style is to assume that the communication should be limited to exactly what there is to be communicated and that all else risks blurring the communication . |
| 24 | The question is what there is about what we learnt when we learnt the rule for + 2 which makes the continuation 20,002 , 20,004 , 20,006 objectively correct , and 20,004 , 20,008 , 20,012 objectively incorrect . |
| 25 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 26 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 27 | The common culture which Parsons postulated has three types of symbolism : ( a ) evaluative symbols which express moral standards ; ( b ) cognitive symbols which give an account of what there is in the natural and social world ; and ( c ) cathectic symbols , which define appropriate feelings about objects . |
| 28 | And you do n't know what there is in front of us . " |
| 29 | In all the chain there are less than ten square kilometres left of glacier , or about a fortieth of what there is in the Alps , though , after many years of shrinkage , the Pyrenean ice-fields are said to have spread themselves a little since 1950 . |
| 30 | So far we have discussed what there is in the way of video equipment and materials and we have looked at how we can use the machine . |