Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 'm taken back down and I 'm wondering what the hell 's going on . |
| 2 | This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics . |
| 3 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 4 | Have you been told what the cheapest term assurances are in order ? |
| 5 | You 're told what the marks are for the next two tests aren |
| 6 | I think the answer is that simply as it who were doing what the name would otherwise have done , erm for the reasons your Lordship has given and , and your Lordship has seen of course that the analysis of the relationship between the name and the agent , erm , certainly as far as Mr is concerned , indeed we said it certainly it follows from what , what article eighty five does , it does n't effect the extensible authority point but and the |
| 7 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
| 8 | Who is to determine what the poor in the Third World really do need ? |
| 9 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
| 10 | It is very important to get the facts if we are to contemplate what the police should be for controlling and preventing crime . |
| 11 | We are improving what the employment service has to offer in the new integrated offices , as all hon. Members who have been to see them will know . |
| 12 | ‘ Uncle Albert says we 're to note what the light beams do , and see if anything changes as we accelerate . |
| 13 | Well we 're see what the weather 's like . |
| 14 | The question whether a man who considers himself wronged has a claim which he can make good will depend on the answer to the question : Is there a writ to meet his case or , if there is not one , can one be framed which the King 's Courts will hold good ? |
| 15 | It is important to understand that there are two different ways of approaching this question , one being to consider what the speaker does in producing stressed syllables and the other being to consider what characteristics of sound make a syllable seem to a listener to be stressed . |
| 16 | Indeed the closer one focuses attention on the words and how they are made up , the less likely one is to understand what the passage is about . |
| 17 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 18 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 19 | They 're asking what the noise could be who it could be were the guards coming for them ? |
| 20 | ‘ They may feel they 're charging what the market will bear . ’ |
| 21 | When they were asked what the ( say ) ‘ egg ’ was ‘ really , really ’ the three-year-olds answered correctly that it was a stone , but when asked what the object ‘ looks like to your eyes ’ they also said ‘ stone ’ . |
| 22 | Not one organisation wrote to the Home Secretary indicating they were supporting what the Government is now putting for the House . |
| 23 | It 's understanding what the need is and understanding what need you can actually supply . |
| 24 | One suspects that it is to demonstrate what the attractions of the famous Museum Island will be when the plan favoured by the Berlin museums supremo Dube but hotly contested by many museum professionals comes to fruition , for Dube has decided that the island is to be dedicated entirely to these archaeological collections , while the fine arts all move over to the western side of the city to more modern museums . |
| 25 | Once it is established what the defendant knew , then the inference to be drawn from these primary facts is objective . |
| 26 | Alternatively they may say : ‘ We think the best way to do it is to follow what the local authority have said you are to do ’ . ’ |
| 27 | Er , oh in the example that I gave , yes , because it was totalling what the grand total . |
| 28 | I remember when he was asked what the principal crop of Thailand was and he answered transistor radios . |
| 29 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |
| 30 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |