Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winner 's the player who amasses enough points to create what the rulebook calls a trance-like state . |
| 2 | Gambles of any kind are ‘ adventurist ’ to the Kremlin 's way of thinking , and the episode only goes to show what a maverick figure Khrushchev was . |
| 3 | Do n't worry , George , I 'm not about to sally forth on my old hobby-horse , not for long anyway , just long enough to try to explain what the greatest number means in the term the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 4 | Starting with a fascinating selection of photos taken during Mosquito production at Hatfield ( UK ) , Downsview ( Canada ) and Bankstown ( Australia ) , further sections deal with the fighter and bomber variants of this maid-of-all-work , only serving to illustrate what an aesthetically pleasing aircraft the Mosquito was from all angles . |
| 5 | Her mother had not noticed the incident and only turned to see what the matter was when Joyce began to scream . |
| 6 | The aim here is not to encourage hauliers to do their own conveyancing , but to ensure they are better equipped to appreciate what the solicitor or other ‘ expert ’ is doing on their behalf . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , he 's only got to do what a lot of older men do — marry a young girl and produce an heir himself . ’ |
| 8 | You can only begin to guess what the ancient Greeks would have made of that , and the subsequent impact on Renaissance sculpture . |
| 9 | MPs are getting letters complaining that fathers may have already taken on commitments they ca n't get out of and they were only expecting to pay whatever the courts had fixed . |
| 10 | Almost a hundred years later , following his visit to Kidderminster , George Whitfield told a friend , ‘ I was greatly refreshed to find what a sweet savour of good Mr. Baxter 's doctrine , works and discipline remain to this day ’ . |
| 11 | Also contrary to the speculations of media sociologists , television not only failed to determine what the electorate thought , it also failed to determine what they thought about , though it did communicate to the electorate what the parties were fighting about . |
| 12 | We only need to know what a procedure does , not how does it ; a wall can be built between the program that uses procedure T and the implementation of procedure T. This leads to modular programs . |
| 13 | Conservative Members do not want to hear what a former Conservative leader has to say . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to disrupt my speech because he does not want to hear what the country wants to know . |
| 15 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 16 | writes from Leeds : Just want to say what a brilliant idea from P. Burley ( PFK Projects April ) . |
| 17 | In Brutus v. Cozens , the House declined to attempt to define what is meant by insulting , and later courts have not sought to do what the House would not , although they have sought to give guidance as to what the term might mean . |
| 18 | But Det Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , said : ‘ We are treating the incident as a crime but I would not like to say what the nature of the crime is at this stage . ’ |
| 19 | I would not like to think what the wrong type would do to , say , the bacteria in your filter ! |
| 20 | He does not begin to describe what the effect was on Russia of by-passing the Reformation , the Counter-reformation and the Enlightenment ; instead , in an effort to be friendly , he mentions things Russian from time to time . |
| 21 | We 'll just have to see what a course of ECT will do for him . ’ |
| 22 | It just went to show what a distraught state her mind had slipped into . |
| 23 | All this has profoundly affected those who teach RE in both primary and secondary schools , some of whom really do not seem to know what the subject is about . |
| 24 | I do not pretend to know what the ethics committee would say about that . |
| 25 | Erm we 've covered it I 've done it before I 'm just trying to remember what the answer was . |
| 26 | Now I just trying to think what the other the name of the other one was . |
| 27 | I just wanted to check what the position of the old executive committee of the W R A D which been appointed , whether that was in fact erm , something that qualified for a full allowance . |
| 28 | I just wanted to know what the ticket arrangements are for the Liverpool game at Anfield later in September . |
| 29 | We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense . |
| 30 | Although a picture may be worth a thousand words the reader still needs to know what the picture relates to . |