Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That being the case , we are right to ask what the Bill 's objectives really are . |
| 2 | It would have been interesting to know what the men at the front thought of this account of their endeavours . |
| 3 | I am interested to hear what the hon. Gentleman has to say . |
| 4 | That , together with the strenuous efforts made by everyone in Northern Ireland at local and provincial levels , means that we can look to the future with some confidence , and I am delighted to endorse what the hon. Gentleman said . |
| 5 | I am delighted to hear what the hon. Gentleman says . |
| 6 | ‘ Roger looks as if he 's running well , so it will be interesting to see what the selectors will do . ’ |
| 7 | it will be interesting to know what the Police Band costs , which the ratepayers never hear , and what did the rodeo , performed by the Mounted Section , cost the long-suffering ratepayers ? |
| 8 | The grading should reflect the actual responsibilities of the job , and any additional qualifications and experience you bring to the job : follow the advice given on contracts and job descriptions generally and be careful to establish what the parameters of the contract are before you agree to it . |
| 9 | It would be entertaining to see what the fellow would try to do next . |
| 10 | Erm as far as his sort of doubts as to , as to what er what the actual State benefits are , I 'm interested to know what the answer is to overco overcome that one unless you actually got a , a leaflet with you know the |
| 11 | And I 'd be interested to know what the masses of London think . ’ |
| 12 | I am sure that the House would be interested to know what the Labour party 's industrial policy is for the motor industry . |
| 13 | I 'll be interested to hear what the teachers have to think about that and like you . |
| 14 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 15 | Just as a gentleman was defined by his likeness to other gentlemen , so a house should resemble other houses of a similar standing ; it would therefore be redundant to describe what every courteous author must assume was already known to his readers . |
| 16 | And so I decided that this was rather an unfair situation — why should n't women be able to do what a man did ? |
| 17 | The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing . |
| 18 | You can write your first paragraph when you have finished the rest of the essay ; and at that point , you will definitely be able to promise what the essay will cover — because you will have already written it . |
| 19 | They will have all the facts and will be able to explain what the costs would be in your particular case . |
| 20 | At that stage I concede happily that we may be able to predict what a clever animal will do in a particular set of circumstances . |
| 21 | Thus , we will not be able to predict what the apparent values of these quantities will be because we do n't know how many baby universes are waiting out there . |
| 22 | The seller may be unreasonable and the acquirer would have to be able to show what the opinion of the seller was . |
| 23 | But people tend to confuse the fact that one may be able to guess what an individual is likely to choose with the notion that the choice is not free . |
| 24 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |
| 25 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |
| 26 | How valuable it would be to be able to reconstruct what the site looked like while excavation was in progress . |
| 27 | We would not be able to tell what the enemy 's intentions are this time , ’ Kopyion replied . |
| 28 | You need to be able to understand what the question is telling you about itself . |
| 29 | They have got to be able to understand what the script is about . |
| 30 | However , the altimeter was buried and no doubt if it still has not been found , someone roving round the forests with their metal detectors today will come across it and will not be able to understand what an ancient altimeter is doing there after 60 years . |