Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | undertakes case studies at firm and plant level to see what happens in practice , paying special attention to administrative rules , technology , negotiations ; |
| 2 | Most parents can identify the first phase of interaction with their child , that is they can see what the child is doing that is irritating and they see how they react , but rarely do they then follow through the interaction to see what happens at the end . |
| 3 | The critical inability to see them comes partly from mere ideological reluctance ; partly , though , from unfamiliarity with the basic structural mode of The Lord of the Rings , the ancient and pre-novelistic device of entrelacement . |
| 4 | you 'll have a lot more opportunity to see what goes on . |
| 5 | he has no plans to retire he enjoys it too much |
| 6 | That prospective Tory candidate for Cheltenham John Taylor survived attempts to deselect him has much do with her efforts as local party chairman . |
| 7 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 8 | There are several types of tweezer on the market , so experiment with different lengths and shapes to see which suits you best . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for those of a nervous DOSposition ( rotten pun , I know ) the FastLynx package has no install utility , so setting up the device drivers to enable what amounts to a two machine network involves rolling up the sleeves and getting stuck into editing a file or two . |
| 10 | Demands to know what 's happened to our contract on the Gittel job . |
| 11 | If you 've got the ears to know what sounds good you 're going to be pretty much alright . ’ |
| 12 | It studied a big selection of firms from a single industry — machine-tool making in western Germany — in an attempt to discover what makes the sheep sheep , and goats goats . |
| 13 | The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection . |
| 14 | This awareness of risks and subsequent action to lessen them has been labelled risk compensation ( e.g. O'Neill , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | In the driving seat to replace whoever goes down are London Scottish . |
| 16 | The majority of past and current speech recognition systems have used whole word based methods to identify what has been spoken and have been very restricted . |
| 17 | There is an increased awareness and concern about the possibility of violence to staff which adds to anxiety levels . |
| 18 | The patriarchs of that distant agrarian culture are supposed to have been motivated by the rights of farm animals to do what comes naturally to them . |
| 19 | Above all , the reader is led into the inevitable decline from triumph to despair not by authorial direction but obliquely through Judd 's halting attempt to understand what has happened . |
| 20 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 21 | Research is now being intensified at Dundee University , which has the world 's leading expertise on the subject , in an attempt to understand what makes the algae release the potentially fatal toxins . |
| 22 | Compares the use of three different sets of formulae to determine which provides the best model to employ for bigram and trigram models . |
| 23 | Kazakhstan 's President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Uzbekistan 's President Islam Karimov both condemned the way in which the draft treaty had been thrust upon the republics by the centre , and took the same line as the Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin in arguing that it should be the republics ' prerogative to dictate what powers the centre should retain . |
| 24 | But this suggests that it is actually impossible for Hegel to realise what appears to be an ideal notion of the relationship between lovers . |
| 25 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 26 | The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth . |
| 27 | Owner David Neill said : ‘ The whole community is shocked and I have no words to describe what has happened . |
| 28 | It 's clear to me and I think it 's clear to the vast majority in Congress that it 's a matter for branches to decide who represents them in the various forums of the union . |
| 29 | The I-Thou relationship in these poems is poisoned by the Friend 's behaviour , so it follows that the Poet 's attempt to excuse it degrades himself still further . |
| 30 | US study to examine what makes religion hit the headlines |