Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do we know which is for tea and which is n't ? |
| 2 | Shortly after the end of the war an incident occurred which was of critical importance in the development of Gandhi 's relations with the British — the massacre at Amritsar . |
| 3 | That a subject is capable of noticing whatever is to be perceived can be broken down into two individually necessary and jointly sufficiently conditions : |
| 4 | It can also be used to indicate what is to be presented by the speaker as the topic . |
| 5 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 6 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 7 | Such an exhortation was meant to encourage adolescents to accept what was in effect an ideological belief , namely , that ‘ any service for which payment is accepted , however humble it may be , is to be regarded as a service to the community and to be conscientiously performed . ’ |
| 8 | In confirming the wealth of the district the subsidy exposed a scale of poverty that more closely approached what was to be found in the rest of Suffolk . |
| 9 | When he 's not behind the counter , Paul works hard keeping what 's under the clothes in top condition . |
| 10 | I would like to know what 's to be in it , when is the trial audit going to be , I suppose it 's in my diary , em . |
| 11 | Some people need to know what 's in food for health reasons . |
| 12 | The taxpayer paid for it and the taxpayer is entitled to know what 's in it , ’ he said . |
| 13 | They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards . |
| 14 | On no account worry about the following technicalities , but , as with driving a car , it is helpful to know what is under the bonnet . |
| 15 | As a little afterthought , if anyone one would like to know what is on my Christmas list — please tell that Mummy would like a LIE-IN ! |
| 16 | It is all very well to insist that causes have or are powers or whatever , but we need to know what is to be understood by that . |
| 17 | These people may of course want to keep their knowledge secret so as to avoid any involvement in criminal proceedings , which is not helpful to creditors and to credit managers wanting to know what is to be salvaged from the wreck . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 19 | If you go into a pub today and buy a pint of beer , a coke , a low alcohol lager and a packet of crisps , you have a right to know what is in all those products except the beer . |
| 20 | The resident has a right to know what is in the plan , and the staff of the Home will put it into practice . |
| 21 | Bluntly stated : an enquirer into ‘ the mind ’ has to know what is in his own mind and why it is filled in the way it is . |
| 22 | We still need to know what is in that contract or we need to find out whether there is anything peculiar , and I mean illegal , about Harley 's putter . |
| 23 | A woman had an old camera film , probably forty years old , and she wanted to know what was on it . |
| 24 | But now again a wicked curiosity rose up in him , to know what was inside the second reed . |
| 25 | It bore a French stamp and suddenly she did n't want to know what was inside that letter . |
| 26 | ‘ You wanted to know what was in Angela 's will — the one we 're going to prove , that is . |
| 27 | And er they used to determine what came through , they used to really , you know what came over the Bridge , all picketed and er they 'd want to know what was in the van and everything and if the er trades council said , No it 's not coming , it did n't come . |
| 28 | It was almost as though Joanna and Helen were thinking along similar lines , and she longed to know what was in their minds . |
| 29 | All too often they have to guess what is in the minds of their teachers . |
| 30 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |