Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The use of Colour Index Generic Names , enables us to know which pigments are being used in each paint .
2 The use of Colour Index Generic Names , enables us to know which pigments are being used in each paint .
3 erm because they enjoyed the , there are a few funny lines in it you know and they enjoy the , the visual amatory of these people performing it , but to themselves to actually understand it they need to know which artist it was , yeah
4 Certainly it would have been difficult for the estate to know which ore came from where .
5 Unfortunately it is crucial to know which species of snake is involved because snake poisons are so complex that it has proved impossible to develop a ‘ multi-venin' that will treat all forms of snakebite .
6 I like to know which players in the premier league you would pick to form a 18 men squad if you were manager of a new team .
7 When it comes to his footballing image he never seems to know which mask suits him best .
8 Companies can find it difficult to know which agencies they should approach and , according to Ms Gordon , often become frustrated with the agencies for sending along unsuitable applicants .
9 You might think Pluto is cute ; they want to know which brand of dogfood he eats
10 See the current Longman Directory of Local Authorities in order to know which Land Registry you should approach for the area that is the subject of your conveyancing transaction .
11 You will need to know which residents :
12 It is therefore essential to know which drains are the householder 's responsibility , even if they run across someone else 's land ; and which private sewers are ‘ shared ’ , and the point at which the local authority public sewer becomes responsible .
13 It 's difficult to know which country the cocoa comes from because you do n't know where they buy it .
14 The Weathermen , about whom the underground filmmaker Emile De Antonio made a sympathetic documentary in 1977 , took their title from the protest song by Bob Dylan : ‘ You Do n't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows . ’
15 decision but it is difficult to know which way to go , when you 're actually up you know , I , I would n't say you 're a hundred percent but I would n't say
16 He moved slowly , according to Nithard , " wanting to know which way things would go before he crossed the Alps " ; only when it had become clear that plenty of support would be forthcoming did he decide to claim " the whole empire " .
17 It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel .
18 ‘ It was difficult to know which way the cat was going to jump , ’ she told me .
19 So I think we 've got to be very careful erm , and I want to know which way to go with this .
20 On the other hand , in administration terms , suppliers , customers and employees will need to know which part of the operation is in which place and when it will be there , otherwise communication between the different sites may become confused .
21 But , it is difficult to know which statistics are the most realistic and which formulae to use to calculate cost of living let alone how often to update cost-of-living allowances .
22 In order to know which rules apply , one would need to know the context in which the word is appearing .
23 ‘ I thought he ought to know which Queen we were fighting for , ’ he said afterwards .
24 It was impossible to know which direction they were going in .
25 Well , we needed to know which rooms had been done .
26 An experienced accident investigator working for many years in many countries soon gets to know which States are prepared to make considerable efforts to find the true cause of an accident and thereby acquires substantial knowledge of the problems and pitfalls that can be encountered .
27 You know it says book forty , do you have to know which books you want to go into ?
28 mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes .
29 mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes .
30 Some of the plants they drew were diseased ; it is always a matter of difficulty to know which features of a plant or animal are individual peculiarities and which are specific characters .
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