Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] what [verb] " 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 | Reminding her that she would still be in full control at all times , I asked her whether it was not worth trying the technique to see what happened . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks . |
| 5 | you 'll have a lot more opportunity to see what goes on . |
| 6 | As it happened , the Great War intervened and provided the Conservatives with an opportunity to confirm what had been an uncertain trend towards a reshaping and consolidation of the right . |
| 7 | Fearon glanced in that direction to see what had upset her , looked vaguely surprised , slapped half-heartedly at the mud with his hand and mumbled , ‘ It 'll brush off … ’ |
| 8 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 9 | This is not an attempt to deal with these ideals in a comprehensive way — no single empirical study could do that — but merely an attempt to see what bearing our factual findings may have upon moral views about the media . |
| 10 | you see she did n't give it till the spring to see what came up , I mean she had it all paved which was silly because they , there were a load of rose bushes and that |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Demands to know what 's happened to our contract on the Gittel job . |
| 13 | Certainly one 's initial impression is of a building with a haphazard history , in which functions and spaces have been added and transformed , with little attempt to hide what went before . |
| 14 | If you 've got the ears to know what sounds good you 're going to be pretty much alright . ’ |
| 15 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were at a loss to know what to do with this sullen rebel who kept bursting out against them so unjustly . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When he lectured he never made the slightest attempt to underline what had been his own ( considerable ) contributions to the subject . |
| 21 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But this suggests that it is actually impossible for Hegel to realise what appears to be an ideal notion of the relationship between lovers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Owner David Neill said : ‘ The whole community is shocked and I have no words to describe what has happened . |
| 30 | Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material . |