Example sentences of "[noun sg] what the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord McGregor of Durris told journalists and editors at the annual What the Papers Say Awards lunch yesterday that critics of the present commission had not grasped that in some situations the law was powerless to regulate people 's behaviour . |
| 2 | The Investigation of the Year award , presented at the annual What the Papers Say Awards by Lord McGregor of Durris , chairman of the Press Complaints Commission , followed his award last week as Author of the Year at the British Book Awards . |
| 3 | Rather than taking as gospel what the manufacturers tell us , SD-Scicon is busy researching what levels of system security users actually want so that CEC can make recommendations . |
| 4 | There 's no doubting what the kids think of it . |
| 5 | I think that was his name what the nurses give him . ’ |
| 6 | We would like you to spell-out what the words mean for all of us , especially for those in the local situation where people see their primary role as fundraisers . |
| 7 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
| 8 | By understanding what the cells do during limb development , we can begin to ask how the genes control these activities . |
| 9 | And no matter what the authorities said |
| 10 | No matter what the Pistols sounded like , he reasoned , they now made perfect commercial sense — a feeling emphatically confirmed by their confrontation with Bill Grundy . |
| 11 | No matter what the super-powers plan , Europe can now consider becoming nuclear-free . |
| 12 | NO matter what the critics write it is you the public who decide whether a movie is a hit or a flop . |
| 13 | NO matter what the critics say , it is you the public who decide whether a film is a hit or a miss . |
| 14 | NO matter what the critics say , it is you the public who decide whether a film is a hit or a miss . |
| 15 | All investigations , no matter what the books said , depended on bureaucratic processes . |
| 16 | Some , no matter what the makers say , are better than others . |
| 17 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 18 | No matter what the advertisements say to the contrary , garlic is always perceptible on the breath , even when it is taken in capsule form . |
| 19 | That would have the advantages of specifying with precision what the parties have agreed , thus avoiding misunderstanding , and of enabling the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may have tentatively determined to depart from the agreed proposals ( post , pp. 277H — 278B ) . |