Example sentences of "what do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what do the financial analysists make of it all ? |
| 2 | In the face of the social catastrophe now making itself felt , it will be critical to confront a stark question : What do the rich nations of the world owe the poor as the latter confront the issues of prevention and treatment ? |
| 3 | Okay so what do the fractional indices mean ? |
| 4 | What do the changing patterns mean ? |
| 5 | Right , so what do the two twelve and a half come to ? |
| 6 | What do the following gestures or attitudes mean to you ? |
| 7 | What do the following words have in common ? |
| 8 | What do the following abbreviations stand for ? |
| 9 | In this context what do the simple ‘ upper ’ , ‘ middle ’ and ‘ working ’ class designations mean ? |
| 10 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 11 | What do the other churches think then , in town catholic and the . |
| 12 | What do the various international agreements on the laws of war say which has a bearing on the legality or otherwise of nuclear weapons use ? |
| 13 | In understanding the parables and the teachings of Jesus , one of the things we 've got to do is to say well what do the various things in the parables , what do they represent ? |
| 14 | What do the four terminals on the switch connect to ? |
| 15 | What , what do you do , what do the twenty eight of you who do n't have a license and do n't drive do ? |
| 16 | What do the British Government intend to do to ensure that the Prime Minister 's promise of last June is upheld ? |
| 17 | But what do the top stylists think about each other ? |
| 18 | What do the , what do the older people feel when you go out to train them ? |
| 19 | What do the local people say it is ? ’ |
| 20 | Well what do the different components ? |
| 21 | what do you do now with the , what do the old the old hunt 's people do ? |
| 22 | What did the rival Carolingians themselves believe ? |
| 23 | Once the party had shown itself , in the 1929–31 Parliament , unwilling to support Lloyd George 's programme of national reconciliation , it had no answer to the question : What did the Liberal party stand for ? |
| 24 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 25 | What did the other children have ? |
| 26 | Just what did the two of you get up to ? ’ |
| 27 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 28 | What did the second name did you say |
| 29 | What did the Soviet newspaper Red Star call Mrs Thatcher in 1976 ? |
| 30 | And what did the mercenary little baggage do then ? |