Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [Wh det] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff and residents are free to come in to see what is on today , and Peter is always on hand to give an informal word of help . |
| 2 | The caravan is ideally designed as er an exhibition with steps in er either right or left in to see whatever 's on show and then out on the opposite side . |
| 3 | If she withholds beyond their as yet limited capacity for tolerance , their continuing rage seeks only to destroy what is in her . |
| 4 | First , they may be designed not finally to determine what is to be done in certain circumstances but merely to determine what ought to be done on the basis of certain considerations . |
| 5 | Even where an authoritative decision is meant finally to settle what is to be done it may be open to challenge on certain grounds , e.g. if an emergency occurs , or if the directive violates fundamental human rights , or if the authority acted arbitrarily . |
| 6 | Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’ |
| 7 | It would be so easy to give in , simply to take what was on offer . |
| 8 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 9 | You take a look round to see what is outside our universe . |
| 10 | Fewer people now read an evening paper : if they did , it was primarily to see what was on TV . |
| 11 | It should then be possible to add to this minimal definition more closely to define what is to be done . |
| 12 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |