Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Optionally — if you 're feeling mean — the carriage will animate and attack the adventurers if they just stand around for ages wondering what to do next . |
| 2 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 3 | Employees must also be rewarded for their commitment to the firm , but not in such a way that the desire for rewards affects what they think and do eg. secure lifetime employment is a more effective reward than early promotion . |
| 4 | I am rarely lost for words to say what I mean |
| 5 | She said , ‘ What 's this ? ’ it did n't matter to her what it was — a piece of stone in the hearth — just something to talk about — an embarrassed need for words to cover what she saw as his rejection . |
| 6 | James Noel of d'Overbroeck 's College in Oxford believes that there is no easy answer for parents wondering which college to choose . |
| 7 | Simplicity There is no need for countries to decide what constitutes the appropriate exchange rate or for their general agreement on whether deficit or surplus countries are responsible for the adjustment burden . |
| 8 | Surely , it is better for judges to do what Lord Taylor says the press fail to do , and weigh individual circumstances rather than some abstract impression of public mood . |
| 9 | A series of Acts followed which strengthened the powers of magistrates . |
| 10 | This is a process which may take a number of reruns to achieve what we would consider to be a satisfactory outcome . |
| 11 | They can reduce these factors to mathematical terms and experiment with them by introducing a variety of inputs to assess what effects they have . |
| 12 | Indeed , the whole period is marked by a series of attempts to define what specific kinds of leadership qualities would be needed to maintain the overseas empire as well as ensuring secure government at home . |
| 13 | This sense is strong enough to motivate a succession of attempts to find what is interesting . |
| 14 | None the less , it is necessary to point out that there have been a number of attempts to develop what might be called , " theories of data " , that is to specify what can count as suitable data for scientific disciplines : some of these we shall be looking at in this book . |
| 15 | Again , labelling of cans to distinguish which metal they are composed of is essential , as is the imposition of a small levy or resource tax to encourage collection . |
| 16 | The organisational side of the investigation described here will in the great majority of cases reveal what went wrong , either physically and mechanically or from a procedural or handling point of view . |
| 17 | The melt usually has to be supercooled by about 5 to 20 K before a significant number of nuclei appear which possess the critical dimensions required for stability and further growth . |
| 18 | The major factor is likely to be the number of baths taken which will vary with the size and age of the family . |
| 19 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 20 | ‘ As you read the story you found yourself punching up shots in your mind , and you got a strong set of pictures forming which you could then draw down . |
| 21 | Viewing of this train — for those people whose names did not begin with a W — was from the quadrangle , and the startled crowd of spotters wondered what on earth had happened . |
| 22 | Functional index and glossary of words used which are not in the Cambridge English lexicon ( Levels 1–3 ) . |
| 23 | BarclayPlus is a new style of savings account which you can open with as little as £1 . |
| 24 | Compares the use of three different sets of formulae to determine which provides the best model to employ for bigram and trigram models . |
| 25 | Hayling , who was now working closely with Pilger , sensed the Manchester decision had been made in advance by the Founders , and assembled a team of journalists to explain what was wrong with it . |
| 26 | Rostov was surprised that the question had not been asked earlier , and guessed that a code of manners existed which governed the kind of questions which could be asked . |
| 27 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 28 | Shannon ( 1951 ) demonstrated that there is over 50% redundancy in the English language by investigating the ability of readers to predict what letters were missing from words . |
| 29 | I 'd like to go back to the minutes in terms of matters arising which do n't arise under the the agenda items . |
| 30 | But now , for the first time in English history , a set of circumstances existed which tested , whether this doctrine is always workable . |