Example sentences of "what [noun prp] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Acheson had in mind , principally , was the agreement to create a Vietnamese National Army ; a hopeful assessment of the agreement that had been reached after the long-drawn-out negotiations at Pau to turn local administration over to the Vietnamese early in 1951 ( although , as Acheson notes , the transfer date kept being postponed ) and de Lattre 's appointment to Indo-China . |
| 2 | This intimate connection between the metaphysics of death and the politics of life is precisely what Nizan has in mind when he refers to revolutionary literature as " the modern form of tragedy " . |
| 3 | We have already seen something of what Hobbes has in mind when we considered his idea of the generation of a circle . |
| 4 | What he sees is not what Durkheim had in mind and what Claudia was trying to detect . |
| 5 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 6 | Initially at least it was n't what Kavner had in mind . |
| 7 | The second , then , of Athens ' geographical blessings is her prime naval position ( which is really what Xenophon had in mind ) . |
| 8 | Before sleeping I wonder what Pascal had in mind when he wrote in the Pensées : ‘ Time heals griefs and quarrels , for we change and are no longer the same persons . |
| 9 | It seems that this dynamic view is closer to what Brooke-Rose has in mind when she describes her use of metaphor in the novels as recontextualization through the fusion of discourses . |
| 10 | At first Leonora was n't sure precisely what Penry had in mind regarding their relationship , and lived in a state of tension between his phone calls . |
| 11 | Despite the general level of the analysis , which offers ‘ scepticism ’ as a further quality to add to ‘ logic ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ as characteristics associated with literacy , this passage does offer a more precise formulation of what Goody has in mind as the consequences of literacy . |
| 12 | All this , but with examples drawn from chess instead of from whist and bridge , is what Wittgenstein has in mind when he says that the term ‘ language-game ’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity . |
| 13 | Assuming Moore is fit and Wallaby Coker , the king of the long-distance commuters , is not required again in Australia , Bath might discover painfully what Winterbottom has in mind . |
| 14 | Not a bit what Owen had in mind , but since the unions had neither the resources nor the will to use them , the revolution did not come at all . |
| 15 | What Bourdieu has in mind here is clearly not at all primarily the classificatory struggles concerning types of symbolic goods that form so much of the subject matter of Distinction ( cf. also Un art moyen ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I had no idea , ’ she informed him earnestly , ‘ no idea at all what Rose had in mind , or I would never have gone with her . |
| 17 | But other examples will better illustrate what Rollin has in mind : |
| 18 | For example , correctionalists prepared to enter appreciatively into the meaning world of deviants may well come up with something useful for their purposes ( although that , of course , is not at all what Matza had in mind ) . |
| 19 | What Delors had in mind was aid worth £10 billion a year for ten years . |
| 20 | Suddenly I realised what Tennyson had in his heart when he said : |
| 21 | And that I think is what Locke had in mind to be a full member of a civil society erm you 've got to erm give your express consent for example in the form of an oath of allegiance . |
| 22 | Now many commentators have found it not entirely clear what Locke has in mind and I 'm puzzled by erm the confusion into which they seem to have fallen . |
| 23 | What Claudia had in mind was some colouring of the evidence so that the district officer , Miles Turnbull , a harassed , overworked but popular man , who was dead — bien entendu — could be seen to have acted rashly in asking his askaris to point a gun at Tepilit , which Tepilit naturally interpreted as meaning they were about to shoot him . |
| 24 | However , the government is spending much less on developing directed-energy for beam weapons , which is apparently what Reagan had in mind last week during his press conference . |
| 25 | It is clear that what Bukharin had in mind here was that the ‘ town ’ must provide consumer goods and means of production to agriculture on such a scale as to make it worthwhile for the peasants to produce more than for their own immediate needs . |
| 26 | In fact , for one crazy moment I thought this was what Rebus had in mind . |
| 27 | What Polybius has in common with Cato , especially about the Roman constitution , does not necessarily imply that he read Cato . |
| 28 | One hopes that is not what Crane had in mind when he credited Williams 's poems with ‘ charm ’ . |
| 29 | No , that was not what Jean-Claude had in mind , and he rose and went inside a played a few bars of something by Scriabin . |
| 30 | It is quite likely that preaching and debating about Jesus is what Paul had in mind . |