Example sentences of "in a [noun] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | She called in a neighbour to witness what happened ( Labour Research , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Indeed , even in the as yet relatively non-totalitarian welfare states of the West some have already discerned the same paternalistic and enslaving trend : ‘ government 's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing some to aid others , ’ while government-funded welfare programmes ‘ put some people in a position to decide what is good for other people . |
| 3 | You are in a position to see what 's going on in the university world and therefore I 'd like to ask you one or two questions , rather general questions . |
| 4 | She knew he was in a position to do what he wished , but what made him think she would enjoy it ? |
| 5 | It depends on the circumstances and you 're not , you 're not in a position to say what D S S will or wo n't do . |
| 6 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we are not in a position to predict what oil prices or , through oil prices , petrol prices will be over the next few years . |
| 7 | I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes . |
| 8 | But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages . |
| 9 | Alas , no party is in a position to deliver what is so desperately needed . |
| 10 | Perhaps the reader is now in a position to understand what Piaget intended when he said that infants ‘ construct ’ reality through action . |
| 11 | But with Wimpol on board the Commission may shortly be in a position to announce what really happened . |
| 12 | The authors suspect the programme funded by the National Institutes of Health on the social and ethical implications of genetics of ‘ putting the Human Genome Project in a position to supervise what questions are asked ’ . |
| 13 | They had access to the schedule to be used ( Document 2 ) and thus were in a position to know what criteria would be used to observe and evaluate them . |
| 14 | The primary school pupils studied by Sinclair and Coulthard had acquired such a knowledge of the way lessons develop ; the participants in a trial know what stage it is in and can organize their behaviour accordingly . |
| 15 | Well it was also how they distributed it as well cos it need n't necessarily just be the cadres , it was du n no there 's a scene where they the house , like you get in a queue take what you want |
| 16 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 17 | In a leaflet entitled What is the West Ham Municipal Alliance ? , |
| 18 | In business , copies of every letter mailed are kept in a file to record what was said and what was agreed . |
| 19 | This puzzle was highlighted by Frenk at the UK National Astronomy Meeting , in Leicester last month in a paper discussing what he termed the ‘ baryon catastrophe ’ for the Coma cluster . |
| 20 | I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’ |
| 21 | I , however was lost in a daydream wondering what the Queen would be like . |
| 22 | They all sat around in a circle agreeing what a swine Henry was . |
| 23 | So I 'm gon na ask both of you for a word specially in a moment to describe what it was like for that girl in the jungle . |