Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh det] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , and more importantly for what follows , there is a crisis of the political language , images and cultural symbols which this movement needs in order to develop its self consciousness and its political programme . |
| 2 | After all , reckoned America 's lawmakers , these bosses know most about what needs to be done — never mind that they got the firm into trouble in the first place . |
| 3 | In me the need to talk is a primary impulse , and I ca n't help saying right off what comes to my tongue . |
| 4 | The real problem is , as the Carnegie Foundation has realized since establishing the Ageing Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1982 ( Pifer and Bronte , 1986 ) , that we know surprisingly little about what happens to a society and its economy when its age structure changes significantly . |
| 5 | ‘ I care too much about what happens to this family . |
| 6 | So much for what switches it on ; what , if anything , switches the appetite off ? |
| 7 | ‘ Long for what suits them . |
| 8 | WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Prince Charles ‘ is incapable of distinguishing between the good and the bad , only between what looks old and what looks new … ’ |
| 9 | She is bothered only about what happens in Tory Lancashire . |
| 10 | In Chapter 4 we discuss the relationship between some of these factors , and conclude that the most crucial is the pattern of decisions by the courts : not only about what sentences offenders should receive ( whether they should be sent to custody and , if so , for how long ) , but also decisions about which counts they should be tried in and whether they should be remanded in custody in the meantime . |
| 11 | They 're designed to take the heat out of the dispute by getting the husband and wife to talk sense rather than war , especially about what happens to the kids and the money . |
| 12 | How do you think she would feel seeing us together after what 's happened to her ? ’ |
| 13 | The kitchen is very important to me , especially after what has happened today . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've told him just go out there and do what you have to do but remember , regardless of what happens , you are still my champion . ’ |
| 15 | If you refuse then I 'll go after him regardless of what happens to Mobuto . |
| 16 | ‘ Do I have your promise that , regardless of what happens , regardless of — er — whether you like it or not , at the end of this — farce , I 'll still have my job ? ’ |
| 17 | Regardless of what returns Japanese investors are thought to require , the returns they have received were spectacular in 1980–89 . |
| 18 | Omeprazole works differently , inhibiting the enzyme that pumps acid out of gut cells regardless of what stimulates acid production . |
| 19 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |
| 20 | Most of them involved ‘ killings committed impulsively with whatever means were at hand ’ , usually by ‘ men in their 60s or 70s [ who ] had reached breaking point under the continuing strain of looking after wives with severe mental or physical illness ’ . |
| 21 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 22 | er better support and better advice for schools , but I agree entirely with what says , it 's no good having the best advice in the world if we ca n't deliver the er , er , the , the recommendations and one of the things that er has been borne in , on me , when I was sitting on the panel looking at special educational needs that the early identification of the early intervention when there are difficulties which start to arise in schools can save you a lot of money later on and unless the schools have the resources to er , er to meet with the er recommendations which are being made on particular children , then we are asking for trouble there , so that I 'm very concerned about the fact that er , the like , like the early one which was er increase that er provision . |
| 23 | Everything that is most important about Camus , though , lies less in what identifies him with these names , these ideas , than in what distinguishes him from them — and that is the experience of growing up in ‘ poverty and sunlight ’ in Algiers . |
| 24 | And I think the point the graph makes very clearly is that the eighty nine based set up here at least in my view , to fit far better to what has been happening than eighty five based set . |
| 25 | It is unnecessary to add much to what has been said already about the horn , except to point out that owing to its conical mouthpiece and bore it is unable to produce such a loud and brilliant tone as the trumpets and trombones , which are played with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and have a cylindrical bore over the greater part of their length . |
| 26 | I ca n't realy add much to what has already been said except that I saw the goals on Manc of the day and thought theirs were all sloppy and avoidable . |
| 27 | The actors ' trade union demanded the right to decide democratically on what plays to perform . |
| 28 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 29 | At any one moment the positioning of the folds of the vocal tract is determined not only by what has just been said but by what is about to be said ( Springer , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | In our complex society so many of the peculiarities of our institutions and policies can be explained only by what has gone before . |