Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [vb base] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world . |
| 2 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 3 | In nature males form what is termed a ‘ lek ’ , ie. they have adjoining territories and show off to one another and attempt to seduce any passing females . |
| 4 | The company 's price lists explain what features are supplied and what they erect — their general rule of thumb is that the kit and erection represents about a third of the total building costs , excluding land . |
| 5 | In America , brokers acting as price stabilisers arrange what is known as a ‘ green shoe ’ — an agreement which allows them to go back , cap in hand , to the issuing company and simply ask for more new shares to cover their position . |
| 6 | DOS users know what they 're doing , have invested a lot of time and effort in learning how to do it , and do n't want the hassle of moving over to a new interface in order to do it differently . |
| 7 | It is necessary to ensure that the access arrangements complement what your strategy is trying to achieve . |
| 8 | The refugees , small wiry people dressed in rags the same colour as the desert , huddle in the shelters , crouch in the shade behind the buildings , or in groups around the places where relief teams distribute what little food there is . |
| 9 | Perhaps er school children could be brought in when the theatre start 's during the day who actually see how the theatre runs see what theatre 's all about and they might be interested in the theatre . . |
| 10 | For other left-of-field theatre events check what 's on at the enterprising Projects Arts Centre , in East Sussex Street . |
| 11 | The 3 month old puppy will stay at the kennels until health experts decide what to do with it . |
| 12 | Quite how shares will move in the next few weeks and months is unclear at this stage and will take some to clarify as the pension funds decide what strategy to adopt in the wake of the unwelcome attack from Mr Lamont . |
| 13 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 14 | That would provide quality for people and ensure that league tables mean what they should mean , which is a comparison of the delivery of services to people . |
| 15 | As a consequence , as Cool and Lengnick-Hall ( 1985 : 8–9 ) suggest , organization members know what business they are in ; they have a deep-rooted and substantive knowledge that a policy of horizontal or vertical acquisitions hardly allows for . |
| 16 | The matter particles obey what is called Pauli 's exclusion principle . |
| 17 | We in the coal fields know what is going on . |
| 18 | Or they believe that information specialists know what data executives and professionals need in order to have information . |
| 19 | The City Technology Colleges show what can be done . |
| 20 | The death instincts provide what might be termed the ‘ negative energy ’ that is used in the compulsion to repeat unpleasant experiences , which is a masochistic use of primal , sadistic impulses which take the ego as object , rather than an external object . |