Example sentences of "[vb infin] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most straightforwardly one could simply describe what a pupil understands , knows and can do … |
| 4 | Can you describe what the Higgs boson is — and why you would like to find it — on single sheet of paper ? |
| 5 | Mr Ken Currie of the Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell will then describe what the rich world could do to mitigate the effects . |
| 6 | If your organisation is a " high tech " company and works in areas such as microbiology or electronics it will be useful to have a trained scientist who can translate what the company is doing into terms which most people can understand . |
| 7 | If she does n't know what a good thing you are , I feel sorry for her . |
| 8 | If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman . |
| 9 | He does not know what a hyena can do to a human body . ’ |
| 10 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 11 | ‘ 1 mean , how could he know what a woman 's prerogative is ? ’ |
| 12 | Do n't know what a rotten life their daughter will have . ’ |
| 13 | He was our college barber ; and at a time when most of us were penniless he cut hair for a shilling ( = 5p , to those who do not know what a shilling was ) . |
| 14 | I did n't know what a kidney was , that it would be worth money . |
| 15 | I did n't know what a kidney was , that it would be worth money . |
| 16 | Most Americans do not even know what a company car is . ) |
| 17 | Dot did n't know what a banana tasted like , though she 'd heard Mrs Parvis talk about them often enough . |
| 18 | Dot did n't know what a rigger was . |
| 19 | ’ ‘ Do you know what a Lancashire cocktail is ? ’ |
| 20 | I did n't know what a Sibyl was . |
| 21 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 22 | If you 've ever pushed a bicycle with a flat tyre you 'll know what a slow and awkward job it is . |
| 23 | ( Some , in this less heroic age , may not know what a Guest Tea was . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you know what a vestry is , children ? ’ asked a friend of mine , probably hoping that none of them did . |
| 25 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 26 | Anyone who has been walking across grassland and has nearly trodden on a hare , will know what a shock it is when the animal suddenly leaps up and darts off . |
| 27 | At the time my athletic naivete was such that I did n't even know what a Director of Coaching was . |
| 28 | Do you know what a Gas Board ID should look like ? |
| 29 | Does he know what a Hoover 's for ? |
| 30 | Before Kelly 's death I did n't even know what a Rottweiler looked like — that 's how ignorant I was . |