Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the pilot is lost and has been worrying for the past half an hour about where he is . |
| 2 | The PR person is very often in a cleft stick between how he knows the media will react to his story and the sometimes almost mindless enthusiasm of his client or boss . |
| 3 | ‘ Everybody was full of conjecture about where we were going . |
| 4 | The race had started on a wet track — it is almost never dry for a whole weekend in Holland — and Hunt 's victory resulted from the finest sort of judgement about when to come in and change his wet tyres to slicks . |
| 5 | A legally-binding Living Will leaves little room for doctors to use their best judgement about how to help us . |
| 6 | Now loan redemption is a matter for the Government to decide ( at least as to minima ) , and presumably comes down to a judgement about how much the Government thinks that local authorities as a whole can afford to redeem in any year . |
| 7 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 8 | Asked why the interest in Elvis , Walken said that a girl he had a crush on in school used to carry round a picture of her boyfriend , and this was used as an excuse for why Walken could n't take her to his high school prom . |
| 9 | So , darling , keep mum about where we are . |
| 10 | The economics ministry has kept mum about why it made its decision so abruptly , but most in the industry assume it is a first step towards rejoining an international quota system . |
| 11 | So the substance accumulates in the cell , and the amount that is there serves as a measure for how much glucose the cell is using . |
| 12 | To help a social worker clear a framework for how to proceed in family work some theoretical ideas may be helpful . |
| 13 | The parents need to recognize the link between how they try to manage the behaviour and the occurrence of the behaviour , so reactions like smacking , shouting , nagging , sulking , giving in , or ignoring need to be identified . |
| 14 | We 'll have a look through how to work those out just br , just briefly . |
| 15 | He explained : ‘ It 's great to clatter the bowling about when you get the chance , but I do n't want to be thought of simply as a big hitter . |
| 16 | We can not use this expression up here either , because we 've got an unobservable variable in there , we 've got the expectation of which we do n't know alright , we do n't know what that is , what number that is through time , so the analysis could reach an impasse here , right , this , nice little theory , nice hypothesis about how people form expectations but it it 's not tractable , it 's intractable , right we ca n't use it . |
| 17 | Could you tell me a little bit about when you first moved to Harlow , because it interests me very much the fact , I did n't , I was n't aware that you lived in a , house that was |
| 18 | erm Professor Ron Dore is going to talk a bit about when education should stop and I suspect will be saying some of the things that you 've already hinted at , and then later on Professor Colin Lacey will be talking about some aspects of teachers and teaching and training of teachers , and I suspect he will have something to say about mobility of teachers and careers of teachers as , as well . |
| 19 | Pretty little thing , but Philip must clue her in a bit about how to behave . |
| 20 | I learnt something about myself , I learnt a little bit about how members of the class view me , certain physical characteristics which are habits which I try to stop . |
| 21 | Er er only we the bit about how they both |
| 22 | Can you tell me a bit about how it 's changed and whether it is a good thing for Oxford Cheetahs . |
| 23 | Once you have made a decision about where you can site a garage , you have to think about whether to buy a kit garage , or build one from scratch . |
| 24 | Even the betting person makes a carefully calculated and rational decision about where to put his or her money . |
| 25 | The total and individual needs of each child are considered more fully , and the assessment procedure which precedes recommendations for educational placement calls for information from medical , psychological and educational sources as well as involving parents actively in the final decision about where and how the pupil is to be educated . |
| 26 | ‘ At some stage , when I stop playing competitively , I will need to make some sort of career decision about where the majority of my energies will go . |
| 27 | This brings us to his third and final question , which is , should the law be used in all or some cases , and if only the latter , on what basis does one make the decision about where and when to intervene ? |
| 28 | You and your GP will be involved in making the decision about where you go for treatment . |
| 29 | Of course , the decision about where the funds are and what areas they cover is artificial . |
| 30 | But they made clear it would not be a factor in the final decision about where to place the Trident work . |