Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [Wh det] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comments of one development officer may be taken as an indication of how they felt about their workers , and about what characterises a good support worker : Interviewer : |
| 2 | Naturally , the finish judges had to be consulted , and after what seemed a prolonged pow-wow , they came up with an answer . |
| 3 | This specifies whether the result of an operation is to be shifted , how any carry is to be dealt with , whether the storing of the result is to be suppressed , and under what conditions a skip is to be executed . |
| 4 | There are wide oak or elm floorboards in every room excepting the hall , which is stone flagged and from which rises a thick oak staircase with fat bannisters . |
| 5 | Thus was he deprived of the free manpower which had been his and without which began a slow decline in the market gardening business , the hay and straw , and then even the bakery . |
| 6 | This may also help parents to be more aware of language and communication in ordinary , everyday settings and to notice when and on what occasions a child 's language seems to be improving . |
| 7 | Local Management of Schools also raises the problem of how extensively and at what costs a teaching post should be advertised ? |
| 8 | The question then arises as to what promotes a greater use of Creole in conversation . |
| 9 | While he was still undecided as to what to do a bus appeared round the corner and slowed to a halt near by . |
| 10 | Further , he might find it interesting ( and salutary ) to read ( see , for example , [ 71 ] , [ 115 ] ) how such great mathematicians as Euler , d'Alembert and Daniel Bernoulli came , around 1750 , to arguing about their respective solutions to the " vibrating string " problem essentially because their ideas as to what constituted a function did not coincide . |
| 11 | If the justices had applied the wrong criteria as to what constituted a breach of the peace in the case of the mother-in-law , it is difficult to see how the court could have been so sure that the justices had applied the right criteria to the decision of the policeman . |
| 12 | It is impossible to lay down hard and fast rules as to what constitutes a realistic improvement period . |
| 13 | There is no agreed definition as to what constitutes a knowledge worker . |
| 14 | Theoretically , in a free democratic society , especially in an academic community , it is open to dispute and argumentation as to what constitutes a ‘ reasonable order ’ in a given situation . |
| 15 | Although a number of security interests are clearly accepted as being recognised by English law , there is some doubt at the penumbra as to what constitutes a security interest and , in particular , as to whether there is a numerus clausus of such interests . |
| 16 | As was pointed out earlier , there is some uncertainty as to what constitutes a security interest ; it is submitted that the courts will adopt something along the lines of the definition of Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. set out at the commencement of this chapter . |
| 17 | The court 's decision as to what constitutes a class conceals the policy issues in the decision . |
| 18 | The CPA 1987 is not clear as to what constitutes a holding-out and much will depend upon how the branding is perceived by the reasonable consumer . |
| 19 | But , as this figure also suggests , this is in fact a view which accepts dominant ( white , middle class ) views as to what constitute a city 's back or front regions . |
| 20 | There is little agreement among philologists or social historians as to what brings a particular nickname into being , although in the days when people had just one name , of a given or baptismal kind , it was probably a necessity that an additional term be pressed into service to distinguish between folk of like name . |