Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This right to redress which the law confers on the possessor is independent of , and at least as old as , if not older than , the legal protection given to the owner . |
| 2 | Dunedin has what the Book of Records claims to be the world 's steepest street , with a gradient of 1 in 1.4 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ASUTRAMES gave out leaflets , explaining what the government was trying to do with those " elections " . |
| 5 | Each new member of staff receives a five page letter from Mr Nitschke explaining what the hotel is about and he still attends the induction programme each Monday morning . |
| 6 | At the end of any article it is normal to give conclusions , explaining what the article means in a short , pithy summary , but I want to create debate , not stifle discussion , so after each article I will simply pose some questions and let readers create their own ideas . |
| 7 | At present he was with a party of police officers visiting the United States and Inspector Blakelock was totally in charge doing the two jobs , not only receiving the exhibits , making out the register of court attendances and preparing the statistics , but discussing the cases with the detective in charge , explaining what the Laboratory could hope to do , rejecting those cases where the scientists could n't help , and checking that the final statements for the court were complete . |
| 8 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 9 | Ken Collins , MEP , says that there is not much evidence to show that compliance with legislation is improving , partly because there is little information to indicate what the state of the environment actually is . |
| 10 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 11 | It was not possible to indicate what the premium would be if cover were to be provided automatically , because the BMIF was a separate body and was not prepared to consider this . |
| 12 | It is an attempt to meet what the Secretary of State for Wales described as the widow factor . |
| 13 | So , instead of a straightforward chemical manufactured by everybody else we can now offer a range of different properties to meet what the market wants . ’ |
| 14 | Section 38 specifies what the expression means . |
| 15 | And the other one just specifies what the path is , does n't it ? |
| 16 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 17 | Certainly the crisis over Maastricht is no nearer solution , especially as the Government still refuses to accept what the Treaty is about . |
| 18 | Newspapers like Moscow News and Nezavisimaya Gazeta ( Independent Newspaper ) busily report what the president does not want to hear . |
| 19 | If the answer to the problem is doubtful , say so , and then suggest what the answer ought to be . |
| 20 | These also suggest what the answer should be or indicate the questioner 's point of view , e.g. ‘ Are you against excessive cuts in university funding ? ’ . |
| 21 | Lucy Jackson underlined what the NDO had said about using local press photographs and materials being ready before the event to ensure possible publication . |
| 22 | Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town . |
| 23 | I never twigged what the gold rush was . |
| 24 | Going back to the medical analogy , no matter what the atmosphere , if you are a strong , healthy patient you will survive whatever the environment throws at you . |
| 25 | It is required to know what the relationship is between A and E , choosing from : greater than ; less than ; equal to ; can not say . |
| 26 | That is what the governor of that offenders centre had to say , and I should be very interested to know what the Minister of State has done since she read that report in the newspaper . |
| 27 | Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be . |
| 28 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 29 | The user of the system provides expertise because he will have to understand and respond to the system , he will have to interpret the questions asked by the system and to know what the scope and limitations of the system are . |
| 30 | Or if I am called to a meeting that does not have a purpose written on the agenda , I demand to know what the purpose of the meeting is , before we start . |