Example sentences of "for [v-ing] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common denominator of this type of use is not therefore non-entailment but rather viewing knowledge of the referent denoted by the direct object of know as a condition for attributing what the infinitive denotes to this referent . |
| 2 | The second is the principle of integrity in adjudication : it asks those responsible for deciding what the law is to see and enforce it as coherent in that way . |
| 3 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 4 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 5 | Where the statutory authority is merely permissive , with no clause imposing liability for nuisance , the authority is not liable for doing what the statute authorises , provided it is not negligent ; but it is liable when there is a clause imposing liability for nuisance , even if it is not negligent . |
| 6 | So we may want to introduce a more sophisticated mechanism for determining what the desired level of supply is and what we 'll do is that we 'll say this is actually a special case of a much more general , er more s sophisticated . |
| 7 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 8 | In recent years it has been widely suggested that our prisons are in a ‘ state of crisis ’ , a situation made worse by inadequate means for monitoring what the prisons are doing , and a lack of formal safeguards against bad practices . |