Example sentences of "what [art] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also important to check that a trader who claims to belong to a trade association is in fact a member , and to check with the trade association that a code of practice offers what the trader says it does . |
| 2 | With goods having only one normal use the mere fact of the purchase will , by implication , make it known that this is what the buyer wants them for , e. g. a hot-water bottle , as in Priest v. |
| 3 | Er medically , as best as I understand what the doctors tell me , er I 'm er fine to carry the responsibilities and strain of er the cabinet job that I had . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember what the computer called it . |
| 5 | But that 's what the rules say he must look like , which seems to be a problem with just about every branch of equestrian sport . |
| 6 | well perhaps , but women get very angry as well , but nothing seems to change , I mean what the heck do you do about it when some estimable er gentleman and it almost invariably must be a gentleman since their by far the huge proportion of er presiding judge 's and magistrate 's comes out with that kind of comment about er a woman 's victim reputation or behaviour as he sees it , I mean what is , what is the answer there ? |
| 7 | ‘ What the heck do you do for fun ? ’ |
| 8 | And what the heck did it all mean , anyway ? |
| 9 | ‘ What the heck did she ever see in that one ? ’ |
| 10 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I am pleased and excited that the Office of Communication 's long track record for media advocacy is being recognised by such a celebrated educational institution , even though we are only doing what the Gospels tell us to do , ’ said the Office 's Director , Dr Beverly J Chain . |
| 12 | This , not unnaturally , led to further confusion on the students ' part , and the treatment suggested here was adopted as the solution that fitted best with what the students felt they wanted to write . |
| 13 | What the students want her to do is to give them some basic facts that will enable them to read the novels as simple straightforward reflections of ‘ reality ’ , and to write simple , straightforward , exam-passing essays about them . |
| 14 | What the students want her to do is to give them some basic facts that will enable them to read the novels as simple straightforward reflections of ‘ reality ’ , and to write simple , straightforward , exam-passing essays about them . |
| 15 | Multiculturalists ( for whom the important task is to encourage harmonious and tolerant cultural diversity ) adjust their view according to what the leaders tell them . |
| 16 | What the patient tells you without prompting will usually be of greater importance . |
| 17 | And we priced from from what the customers told us what they wanted , and then we would tell the customers how much that would cost , we got a feeling for the support for certain initiatives . |
| 18 | The Commission took a far stricter view of what the Drinking Water Directive meant than what the UK felt it ought to mean . |
| 19 | Home-made wills do not always mean what the writer thinks they do . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ We do n't believe Tony did what the caller accused him of . |
| 21 | Because it is inevitable that there will continue to be an increased use of IT within enterprises , existing computer- and telecommunications-based managers clearly would normally be expected to be in a much stronger position than existing library and information centre managers to become the overall managers of all the information-based resources of the firm , IT-based or not , if that is what the company decides it needs . |
| 22 | Thus one conspirator in the 1961 Great Heavy Electrical Industry conspiracy said : ‘ We understand this was what the company wanted us to do ’ , and another reported that , ‘ It ( the instruction ) came to me from my superior … but my impression was that it came to him from higher up ’ . |
| 23 | That 's what the company wanted us you know to break up on it . |
| 24 | Reinforce those opinions and attitudes already held where they still reflect what the company wants them to be , and thus protect the status quo . |
| 25 | Where structural isomers are literally what the word suggests they have different structures different ways of linking the atoms together . |
| 26 | Er what the dickens did we sing , The First Noel I think . |
| 27 | ( From what the soldiers told me after , I believe I registered some rather effective shots . ) |
| 28 | The way we decide which to condemn and which to pursue turns out to be complicated and illogical : a synthesis of the times we live in , the place and what the newspapers tell us . |
| 29 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 30 | In nineteen eighty eight and eighty nine we spent ninety eight point two nine percent and in eighty nine ninety , ninety seven point one four percent of what the government thought we need we actually underspent in their terms . |