Example sentences of "what to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Marx , in an equally tough voice , merely said , ‘ O.K. Let's do just that , ’ put his hand in his breast pocket , slowly pulled out a horribly official-looking envelope , and slowly and carefully took from that an even more horribly official-looking form , folded once , in what to Herr Nordern seemed an indescribably sinister manner from top to bottom instead of side to side . |
| 2 | With what to Erika , used to the erratic behaviour of the old Lada , was miraculous smoothness , the driver let in the gears and drove down Grotewohlstrasse but instead of turning left at Leipziger Strasse , carried on into a warren of tiny streets . |
| 3 | When they heard the news they did n't know what to . ’ |
| 4 | What to the Russians is a ‘ dacha ’ and to the Scots is a ‘ but and ben ’ used to be found in fair numbers along the east end of Cathedral Street … ’ summer quarters ’ they were called . |
| 5 | In effect , Ayer has put them in a ghetto and they are happy to remain there , content to be making statements of nonsense in the assurance that what to the believer are the words of God must necessarily appear to the unbeliever mere gobbledygook . |
| 6 | It now remains to ask what to many is the most difficult question , whether , given that the services are available , albeit on a limited basis , they can properly be denied to certain patients.3 This raises not only the issue of fairness or justice , but also that of selective treatment and respect for life . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think you will , ’ said the Brownie Guider , ‘ but I do know for certain that you faced what to you was great danger with wonderful bravery . ’ |
| 8 | But it was Sir Norman Brook who identified what to 1980s eyes is the most startling of the missing links in the Cabinet process of the late forties : the lack of any systematic attempt to review long-term public-expenditure trends and the future spending-implications of current policies . |
| 9 | I do not what to be striking my hook away rim the fish before it has even reached its lips . |
| 10 | We believe that it is the failure to map from roles to names that accounts for the difficulty in keeping track of who is doing what to whom in certain complicated texts with many characters — some Russian novels , for example . |
| 11 | Moira never knows what to be at . |
| 12 | Some folk just do n't know what to be at . |
| 13 | What to Wear |
| 14 | We felt so helpless , so powerless to right what to us was a terrible wrong . |
| 15 | Furthermore , whales are supposed to be mammals who returned to a life in the sea — so , if the evolutionary theory contained all the answers , why should they have ever lost what to most mammals is an exquisite and finely tuned sense organ ? |
| 16 | Dad and Eva would come back late , and I 'd get up to see them and hear , as they undressed , who 'd said what to whom about the latest play , or novel , or sex-scandal . |
| 17 | Question 1 : What to the initials VHF stand for ? |
| 18 | DIARY What to Benny HIll and Kate Adie have in common ? |
| 19 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 20 | ‘ One paper , by Paige ( 1967 ) , for example , quotes Lenin 's ‘ who does what to whom ’ , and Mao 's ‘ war without bloodshed ’ , reminds us of the more familiar formulations of Lasswell ( 1936 ) — ‘ who gets what , when , how ’ — , Easton ( 1953 ) — ‘ the authoritative allocation of values ’ — , Levy ( 1952 ) — ‘ the allocation of power and responsibility ’ , and Snyder ( 1958 ) — ‘ the making of authoritative social decisions ’ , and throws in for good measure a definition by a Japanese political scientist , Masao Maruyama — ‘ the organization of control by man over man ’ . |
| 21 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 22 | His evidence for fusion neutrons consisted of what to the eye looked to be only a moderate increase of neutrons in a small range of energy , though admittedly in the right region to be from fusion . |
| 23 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , he designed and wired the control panel and delighted both in his consultant capacity and also in being again involved in his life 's obsession on what to him was virtually home ground . |
| 25 | They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted . |
| 26 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 27 | The structure of a spoken language determines not who says what to whom , but what can be said at all in a given tongue , irrespective of who the interlocutors are . |
| 28 | While anger may stimulate the courage to do something , it may at the same time cloud the perception of what to be courageous about . |
| 29 | There can be a useful discussion between the project leader and an ergonomist where the former is invited to clarify how he sees these intercommunication problems being dealt with including such criteria as what is reported to him , what to the meeting of sub-heads and what occurs directly between sub-teams . |
| 30 | Choosing Where to Buy and What to Plant |