Example sentences of "[noun] do and what " in BNC.

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1 Although my brief has been to examine animal communication , I am bound to be asked whether the Darwinian approach can add anything to understanding the connections between what animals do and what we do .
2 I do think , however , that there are still prevalent many gross misconceptions of what universities do and what they should do in the modern age : and it may be that some of these misconceptions still drift about the corridors of the Department .
3 I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted .
4 Douglas Hurd , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , however , declared that he did not " believe there is any point , and some danger indeed , in duplicating what NATO does and what the members of NATO decided should be renewed and continued " .
5 A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not .
6 Our natural tendency to concentrate on what the program does and what appears on the screen can easily leave the class in the role of passive spectators , with exercises added almost as an afterthought .
7 What you are not at liberty to do and what you will not do is storm around , losing your temper in my home .
8 Er when you 're riding a horse , you see the weight is all on the back er whichever tendency do and what we call the gait er
9 Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress .
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