Example sentences of "[verb] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunedin has what the Book of Records claims to be the world 's steepest street , with a gradient of 1 in 1.4 . |
| 2 | The researcher can then produce a brief for the creative team which should include what the status of the product is seen to be , who their consumers are , what the advertising is supposed to be doing and a whole host of other basic data . |
| 3 | ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter . |
| 4 | While she was ponderously explaining what an LOA presentation was , they could n't probe at him . |
| 5 | The WES has a network of proselytisers doing something about that , explaining what an engineer is to schoolgirls . |
| 6 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 7 | ASUTRAMES gave out leaflets , explaining what the government was trying to do with those " elections " . |
| 8 | At the end of any article it is normal to give conclusions , explaining what the article means in a short , pithy summary , but I want to create debate , not stifle discussion , so after each article I will simply pose some questions and let readers create their own ideas . |
| 9 | The various databases available come with BT-written reference guides explaining what the sources offer and what uses they are designed for . |
| 10 | At present he was with a party of police officers visiting the United States and Inspector Blakelock was totally in charge doing the two jobs , not only receiving the exhibits , making out the register of court attendances and preparing the statistics , but discussing the cases with the detective in charge , explaining what the Laboratory could hope to do , rejecting those cases where the scientists could n't help , and checking that the final statements for the court were complete . |
| 11 | He would play us a popular classical piece , explaining what the compose was trying to get across to the listener . |
| 12 | Each new member of staff receives a five page letter from Mr Nitschke explaining what the hotel is about and he still attends the induction programme each Monday morning . |
| 13 | I suggested we might use it for publicity , ie the costs of producing and printing a leaflet explaining what the SCC is and its aims , for a general audience , especially the participants of mass bike events such as St Andrews ride , Tour de Forth etc . |
| 14 | There was little to indicate what a busy area this was to become , with buoyed channels for the large tankers , and the storage tanks and quays of Sullom Voe tucked away neatly out of sight amongst the low hills . |
| 15 | Mrs Burrows was careful to indicate what a privilege this was , her only son and she , Alexandra , a nobody and a temporary resident at that . |
| 16 | Ken Collins , MEP , says that there is not much evidence to show that compliance with legislation is improving , partly because there is little information to indicate what the state of the environment actually is . |
| 17 | It was not possible to indicate what the premium would be if cover were to be provided automatically , because the BMIF was a separate body and was not prepared to consider this . |
| 18 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 19 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 20 | It is an attempt to meet what the Secretary of State for Wales described as the widow factor . |
| 21 | So , instead of a straightforward chemical manufactured by everybody else we can now offer a range of different properties to meet what the market wants . ’ |
| 22 | You can not guarantee what the resulting shade will be , though — you build up depth with subsequent layers — and you can get tell-tale streaking if you are not very careful with application . |
| 23 | Section 38 specifies what the expression means . |
| 24 | And the other one just specifies what the path is , does n't it ? |
| 25 | Stepney in the late 18th century was becoming what the Northern Heights — Highgate and Hampstead — became later , namely , an early form of London suburbia . |
| 26 | Most straightforwardly one could simply describe what a pupil understands , knows and can do … |
| 27 | Can you describe what the Higgs boson is — and why you would like to find it — on single sheet of paper ? |
| 28 | Mr Ken Currie of the Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell will then describe what the rich world could do to mitigate the effects . |
| 29 | Indeed the next hours after my return were spent explaining that we had no plans to use either troops or tanks and justifying what a BBC interviewer referred to as my ‘ controversial ’ four-day summer holiday . |
| 30 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |