Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] what [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he stands alone in such a place confronted by several police officers , usually some of high rank , the dice are loaded against him , especially as he knows there is no one to corroborate him as to what exactly occurred during the interrogation , how it was conducted and how long it lasted ’ . |
| 2 | Recent SV gives no guide as to what then happens in the Northern Hemisphere , but we suppose that the flux is first eliminated and then reversed by northward migration of the equatorial patch . |
| 3 | Apart from knowing facts such as " oranges contain vitamin C " and liver contains iron " , hardly anyone had a clue as to what actually constitutes a sound balanced diet or even how much of each nutrient is required each day for their body size , or anyone else 's body size for that matter . |
| 4 | Once the teaching unit has reached the stage of a draft computer program which does what the designer intends , together with associated notes which describe what the program offers and its possible uses in the classroom , we need to consider in more detail how to collect essential information as to what actually happens when the unit is used . |
| 5 | There is considerable dissension in the literature as to what precisely constitutes desertification ; Kovda ( 1980 ) , for example , uses the term to describe land aridisation which involves all the processes that culminate in a reduction of the effective moisture content of soils and thus cause a decrease in biological productivity . |