Example sentences of "[to-vb] which [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm because they enjoyed the , there are a few funny lines in it you know and they enjoy the , the visual amatory of these people performing it , but to themselves to actually understand it they need to know which artist it was , yeah |
| 2 | Certainly it would have been difficult for the estate to know which ore came from where . |
| 3 | When it comes to his footballing image he never seems to know which mask suits him best . |
| 4 | You might think Pluto is cute ; they want to know which brand of dogfood he eats |
| 5 | It 's difficult to know which country the cocoa comes from because you do n't know where they buy it . |
| 6 | The Weathermen , about whom the underground filmmaker Emile De Antonio made a sympathetic documentary in 1977 , took their title from the protest song by Bob Dylan : ‘ You Do n't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows . ’ |
| 7 | decision but it is difficult to know which way to go , when you 're actually up you know , I , I would n't say you 're a hundred percent but I would n't say |
| 8 | He moved slowly , according to Nithard , " wanting to know which way things would go before he crossed the Alps " ; only when it had become clear that plenty of support would be forthcoming did he decide to claim " the whole empire " . |
| 9 | It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel . |
| 10 | ‘ It was difficult to know which way the cat was going to jump , ’ she told me . |
| 11 | So I think we 've got to be very careful erm , and I want to know which way to go with this . |
| 12 | On the other hand , in administration terms , suppliers , customers and employees will need to know which part of the operation is in which place and when it will be there , otherwise communication between the different sites may become confused . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought he ought to know which Queen we were fighting for , ’ he said afterwards . |
| 14 | It was impossible to know which direction they were going in . |
| 15 | Thus it is sufficient to know the general location of the participants in order to interpret : ( 25 ) This city is really beautiful and to know the set of potential addressees in the situation in order to interpret : ( 26 ) You can all come with me if you like and to know when the interaction is taking place in order to know which calendar year is being referred to in ( 27 ) We ca n't afford a holiday this year We could formulate the distinction thus : gestural usages require a moment by moment physical monitoring of the speech event for their interpretation , while symbolic usages make reference only to contextual coordinates available to participants antecedent to the utterance . |
| 16 | If on the other hand it is very sensitive to valuation variation , it is difficult to know which valuation is more representative . |
| 17 | However , when these differences were revealed it was difficult to know which side feared cancelling the project most — ironically it might be the donor with its vested interest in a cumulative increase in annual disbursements , rather than the government with several hundred projects of which at least a half could be in the same state . |
| 18 | This will be , do n't you see I 'm in the process of answering a letter to Regional Railways , on the whole finances of er Leeds North Western , and I needed to know which number you 'd actually |
| 19 | You would need to know which meaning was intended in order to understand what was being said . |
| 20 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |
| 21 | I 'd be interested to know which college you went to . ’ |
| 22 | All I wanted to know sir was which page Mr was on , I I 'll comment later I just want to know which page it is please . |
| 23 | The class structure affects people 's attitudes and behaviour significantly , so that it is important for advertising to know which class is being aimed at . |
| 24 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 25 | It 's an amusing game however , as you struggle for a seat out of the wind at the cairn to eat your peanut butter sandwiches , trying to guess which way everyone will go when they smack their lips , wipe their hands on their breeches and get up to leave . |
| 26 | If and only if it does , that route is followed , which means counting how many of the 26 bits are set up to and including the required one , to establish which member of the pointer array to follow to the next level in the tree . |
| 27 | Indeed , in a recent independent survey by a leading German University , the Esslingen Technical College , of over 20 selected brands of tennis rackets , in which the aim was to establish which racket had the best vibration dampening properties , the Protagon TM 500 came out top . |
| 28 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 29 | Then , using company archives , parliamentary reports and other contemporary printed materials , the business relations between capital-goods producers and their clients will be examined , to discover which sector usually held the patents and how actively , or restrictively , they exploited them . |
| 30 | Once you have assumed responsibility for error handling using the ON ERROR statement , you can use this function to discover which error occurred . |