Example sentences of "to see [Wh det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you ever have an opportunity to see what the tramps actually carried with them ? |
| 2 | It might be that before you start that if we training you need to see what the performance gap actually is . |
| 3 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 4 | As to the second criticism , it is true that a talking-head programme does n't provide visual clues as to content , but it does permit the language learner to watch as well as listen , to see lip movements and facial expressions and to see what the speaker looks like . |
| 5 | They 'd be better off waiting to see what the law is before wasting money on taking action . |
| 6 | They wait hushed , like the crowd before the soldiers , each waiting to see what the others will do . |
| 7 | ‘ The client and I work together to see what the problem was in the past and how it affects the present . ’ |
| 8 | Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is . |
| 9 | I think you have to see what the system is and then see how you get it to work for yourself . |
| 10 | A salient aspect of the addressee , her ability to see what the child can see , has been changed by the utterance of b and the acts accompanying the utterance . |
| 11 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 12 | But what we had in mind in looking at this through the the local plan was that er we 'd be looking at specific end users to see what the benefits were of those those end users and to assess those benefits against any environmental harm that there would be and strategy as a whole . |
| 13 | Sizewell B project manager Jim McFarlane told a meeting of the local community liaison committee : ‘ We believe the case for more nuclear power is irresistible but we have to see what the Government says before deciding whether to submit the C station application . |
| 14 | An arm of the law arrived the same day to take Sam away from him , and also demanded to see what the man called ‘ the place of lodging ’ . |
| 15 | She craned to see what the man was dragging , it looked like a body . |
| 16 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 17 | We just threw all the names into a big data base and sat back to see what the computer threw up . ’ |
| 18 | The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question . |
| 19 | Thus Lord Bridge 's guiding principle could properly be expanded to read ‘ one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question and where he has done it . ’ |
| 20 | I went along to see Ray Talbot , of Norfolk-based The Real McKoi , to see what the trends might be for the coming pond season . |
| 21 | He looks ahead to see what the Masai have found . |
| 22 | The linesman ( one in particular ) would nt make a single decision but waited to see what the ref was giving before flagging . |
| 23 | I want to see er the this rubbish dump but this is n't the time to do it and as the Conservatives said , we should wait on er to see what the Council er wants to do and I take that on board . |
| 24 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 25 | The exception may nevertheless be worthwhile making to see what the landlord will offer as a compromise . |
| 26 | I look to the day when the , to see what the tabloids make , when one of these individuals gets clobbered over the head er , in carrying out their duties . |
| 27 | We represent other values , but we do n't even get to see what the US is doing . " |
| 28 | ‘ Roger looks as if he 's running well , so it will be interesting to see what the selectors will do . ’ |
| 29 | A lady comes to see what the noise is all about . |
| 30 | I needed it because when I finally disentangled myself from Zaria 's legs ( another advantage noted : no claws ) , I padded over to see what the noise was . |