Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 2 | She 's not so sure at first — but then she thinks about what all her girlfriends tell her . |
| 3 | When Glenn thinks about what would have happened if he had needed the transplant now rather than two-and-a-half years ago he says he gets cold shivers . |
| 4 | When a quantum mechanic thinks about what an electron is " doing " he is thinking about what sort of wavefunction is associated with it . |
| 5 | If the hon. Gentleman just thinks about what he is saying , he will realise that it takes a Government one or two years to bring the economy round . |
| 6 | You have the , a little passage that goes through what is called mini cafe , and just there at the corner is a very big . |
| 7 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 8 | One of the reasons they go shopping in groups is because not everyone agrees about which foods are OK and which ones are going to plunge you into hell-fire . |
| 9 | A simple weaving shed or thread separator is used to raise and lower the warp threads through which the weft is woven . |
| 10 | He longs for what he can never really have . |
| 11 | He goes after what he wants and gets it . ’ |
| 12 | Every year the gap widens between what the Trust raises from traditional sources of income , such as farm rents , investments and membership subscriptions , and what is needed to maintain properties , pay staff salaries and acquire new properties . |
| 13 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 14 | The ‘ county matters ’ are now clearly matters for which county responsibility is self-evidently necessary . |
| 15 | We 're asking He who has for what He has . |
| 16 | Or it may be because the recogniser has for whatever reason , not suggested the correct letters . |
| 17 | The Mountain View , California-based Unicode Consortium has merged its multi-lingual encoding standard with the recently approved ISO 10646 , developed by the International Standards Organisation : the idea is that computers all over the world should agree on which number stands for which character so they will be able to communicate other in any language . |
| 18 | Now accepted in common parlance , it stands for What You See Is What You Get , the implication being that the image you see on the screen will be exactly that which you get on the page . |
| 19 | Can you guess which colour stands for what ? |
| 20 | Well he 's like that different taste , never sort of with Christopher stands for what he likes and what he does n't like , shall we mix it round a bit more to mix in ? |
| 21 | It is , it 's sort of like it 's sort of like extradited from the rest of the er the rest of the whole university , you know , nobody really cares about what goes on at Handsworth . |
| 22 | She does n't cry in front of Robert any more , she still tells him lies about what things cost so that she can save some money and make sure she 'll never be dependent on him again . |
| 23 | It also looks for what Bensted called ‘ the unknown x-factor ’ which makes the placement work . |
| 24 | The garden is so large because it had been a ‘ deese ’ , meaning , in Sussex parlance , a drying ground for herring ; dried they became bloaters for which Rye is famed . |
| 25 | the Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries ? |
| 26 | The Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries ? |
| 27 | I said go for the obvious one Brazil question seventeen , the Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries ? |
| 28 | One almost wonders about which side of the Inquisition he is on . |
| 29 | To account for dynamical properties under flow Doi and Edwards introduce a fourth assumption — a slip-link network — whose junctions are not permanent cross-links but rings through which chains can pass freely . |
| 30 | The soils leach rapidly , and under a management regime of grazing and burning a characteristic vegetation develops of which ling ( Calluna vulgaris ) is a principal constituent . |