Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] what the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 2 | Once everyone knows what the framework is , most will contribute readily to the development of the school inside that frame . |
| 3 | Now she seems to have little pain , and little hunger , although she takes what the boy gives her , and today , we have improved upon that . |
| 4 | Perhaps the hon. Member for Cardiff , North agrees with me that , although one knows what the problem is and the damage that it is causing , it is very difficult to get anything done about it . |
| 5 | Traditionally , every spring , a campaign is launched , but this year we must hold a special campaign to ensure that everybody knows what the way ahead will be . |
| 6 | The real problem with this gallery is that it confirms what the public has always thought : that designers are a bunch of elitists who do n't live in the real world . |
| 7 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 8 | It does n't follow that he knows what the matter is — ‘ honestly , though , I do n't know what 's wrong with me , ’ he adds . |
| 9 | ‘ And no-one knows what the spell does ? ’ |
| 10 | Yes , that 's right , I mean it 's that most of you , most of you can , most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffic 's like you would n't know , because you do n't know how you got there . |
| 11 | Erm the answer would be no , they 've got to be sold at sometime and nobody knows what the market is going to do . |
| 12 | It is in fact something called Mad Meg 's Cairn and nobody knows what the hell it 's doing there . |
| 13 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 14 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 15 | Obviously he can create a better model if he knows what the interviewee looks like , how he dresses , talks and responds non-verbally . |
| 16 | But who knows what the grapevine will bear next week ? |
| 17 | Hardly a baffling puzzle for Holmes , I agree , but it shows what the fever to own books , or just to have them around to consult , may drive someone to do . |
| 18 | She can do this because she understands what the enquirer is saying . |
| 19 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 20 | Moreover , the notion of corrigibility is itself suspect : strictly speaking , one can only correct an utterance when one knows what the speaker intended to say , and this is not the case with the specially constructed sentences used in semantic analysis . |
| 21 | Even so , one can almost forgive such visual austerity when one realises what the book represents : it is the most comprehensive and stimulating anthology of twentieth-century ideas about art that has yet appeared . |
| 22 | Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’ |