Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In me the need to talk is a primary impulse , and I ca n't help saying right off what comes to my tongue . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 5 | ‘ I care too much about what happens to this family . |
| 6 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you refuse then I 'll go after him regardless of what happens to Mobuto . |
| 9 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But that wo n't stop him joining an expected 200,000 supporters in Little Rock tonight for what promises to be the biggest election party ever seen . |
| 12 | Smiling , sparkling , with a new hairstyle and cheeky short skirt , she looked relieved … relieved to be away from what appears to be an uncomfortable , stifling relationship with the Prince of Wales . |
| 13 | The mood of the crowd was turning to anger against those responsible for taking the children of South Ronaldsay away on what appeared to be very flimsy evidence , which had not been checked out through the appropriate channels . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the price of cattle fell from £5 a head to £1 a head shortly after this arrangement was made , and the Masai found themselves being asked to pay more and more for what seemed to them to be less and less — for some of the waterworks had already begun to fail . |
| 15 | His warning was disclosed yesterday in what appeared to be an amazing blunder by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 16 | A BOMB damaged five tourist buses outside the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo yesterday in what appeared to be a new attack by Muslim militants fighting to overthrow the government . |
| 17 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 18 | To tackle the poem 's lexicon , for the purposes of translation , is always to be brought up short by what appear to be the simplest words and expressions . |
| 19 | This was due not only to economies of scale but also to what came to be known as the experience curve . |
| 20 | However , assuming it is , then we must look very carefully at what happened to your mother . |
| 21 | The number of those affected by poverty in any society will , however , be influenced not only by the level of unemployment , but also by what happens to the incomes of those on low pay . |
| 22 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 23 | Even though their life-style is often timed normally , daily rhythms of body temperature and the concentrations of the hormones melatonin ( see below ) and cortisol in the blood are irregular , often with what appears to be a free-running period . |
| 24 | There on the green plateau , glistening in the sunshine , was a collection of various types of aircraft , mainly in what appeared to be first class condition . |
| 25 | ‘ It is now about five years since this all started and it has been quite stressful but I feel pretty strongly about what happened to me and my child and I am determined to see it through . |
| 26 | In contrast , the real-balance effect exerts a direct influence on the level of spending independently of what happens to the rate of interest . |
| 27 | It seems to be an admission of failure and weakness , especially when others are coping perfectly well with what appear to be even greater strains . |
| 28 | Squawking madly in what appeared to be a family squabble over the direction they should take , they suddenly closed ranks , as if by order , and formed a perfect vee behind their leader . |
| 29 | Even in what appear to be straightforward motor skills the changes in learning are associated with greater selectivity and more economical use of the evidence needed to guide performance . |
| 30 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |