Example sentences of "[Wh det] 's to be " in BNC.

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1 And what 's to be said of his declaration , as late as 1964 ( in Confucius to Cummings , the anthology he put together with Marcella Spann ) , that Ford 's insistence on ‘ the limpidity of natural speech , driven towards the just word , not slopping down … into the more ordinary Wordsworthian word ’ was ‘ the most important critical act of the half-century ’ ?
2 WHAT 'S TO BE DONE ?
3 ‘ I 'll have you down at my place , try you out , see what 's to be done .
4 Sit yourself down here ’ — she pointed to the bed — ‘ and let's work out what 's to be done . ’
5 She 's no longer interested in what 's to be done here . ’
6 ‘ I 'll take the dogs for a walk up by the river and see what 's to be seen .
7 She sighed deeply before ending , ‘ What 's to be done , Ben ? ’
8 I honestly do n't see what 's to be done except wait and keep our eyes open .
9 What 's to be done with the body ? ’
10 I mean somebody has to have an idea of what 's to be done and how it should be communicated to the employees . ’
11 ‘ Well , what 's to be done , then ? ’ he said quickly .
12 ‘ Then what 's to be done ? ’ cried the doctor impatiently .
13 ‘ I think they know what 's to be done , Mrs Crumwallis , ’ said Hilary Frome , coming in from the sitting-room and taking immediate charge .
14 ‘ You 're doing great — what 's to be nervous about , sitting in an underground room with nobody listening to you , eh ? ’
15 He 'll know what 's to be done about Meredith Putt . ’
16 ‘ But as you say what 's to be found ?
17 I do n't know what 's to be done about my memory . ’
18 What 's to be done ?
19 What 's to be done ?
20 I 'm , I 'm , I 'm a bit against er traders like , like builders and all like that and trade people being on the Council , I 'm a bit against that , er but after saying that , those kind of people do have some understanding on what 's to be done
21 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 .
22 Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly .
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