Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] [verb] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research aims to describe how police authorities give effect to this duty and to analyse what the consequences of their adopting different strategies — formal consultative committees , public opinion surveys , informal liaison etc — are for the work of police authorities , for policing priorities and for police management practice . |
| 2 | It 'll be worse now , in retrospect , it 'll worse phoning Amy up at that moment and asking what the name was . |
| 3 | However , no amount of relationship building will replace hard work and accomplishing what the public relations campaign set out to do . |
| 4 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 5 | He would have survived if he had accepted the plan in the first place and done what the Corporation had wanted him to do instead of putting forward his own counter proposals . |
| 6 | Using this assumption , combined with general knowledge of the world , the receiver can reason from the literal , semantic meaning of what is said to the pragmatic meaning and induce what the sender is intending to do with his or her words . |
| 7 | Again , however , he spoke in general terms about greater competitiveness and supplying what the market wants but failed to suggest what steps he intended to take . |
| 8 | Here , adult contributions might be reasonably elaborate , in that they might add new information or extend what the child has said . |
| 9 | Probably as the snorting monsters emerged from the Black Hole of Balcombe in a cloud of smoke and steam , a merry crowd of villagers who watched from the top of the embankment gave a wary cheer and wondered what the world was coming to ! |
| 10 | New patients ' NHS notes are essential for general practitioners : they contain specific details of past treatment and confirm what the patients say about their current treatment . |