Example sentences of "as [to-vb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 2 | ‘ If Harry had n't been rushed off to the hospital with chest pains today , ’ he continued , ‘ then I 'd still be at a loss as to know what my only daughter gets up to when my back is turned . ’ |
| 3 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |
| 4 | Moreover , such tests could be devised in such a way as to reflect what I have argued to be the most important feature of any new curriculum , the equal importance of the practical and the theoretical . |
| 5 | He sat gazing into space , his unblinking stare which had compelled Harold Macmillan to shift him in Cabinet so as to avoid what he took for continual rebuke , unbroken by the throng that pressed about him . |
| 6 | The inherent uncertainties of future public acquisitions — no plan can be so definite and inflexible as to determine which sites will ( or might ) be needed in the future for public purposes — made this distinction appear arbitrary and unjust . |
| 7 | As much to find out how much Sasser had told him as to learn what Hurley was up to , Coleman agreed , and over a sandwich from the embassy canteen in Hurley 's basement office , discovered that the DEA attaché was trying to put together a videotape documenting narcotics production in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the industry could be in the hands of a private firm which would have its prices regulated by the state in such a way as to earn what approximates to a normal rate of return on capital employed . |
| 9 | The questions can be listed in rough under the headings ( some people put each question on a card to begin with ) and then they can be moved about so as to produce what seems to be a good ‘ flow ’ for the interview . |
| 10 | But turn a corner and there the resort is , one of a number which have been built in the Pyrenees since the start of the 1960s at greater altitudes than the old , so as to lengthen what would otherwise be a brief and uneconomic skiing season . |
| 11 | ‘ May one be so inquisitive as to enquire what that is ? ’ |