Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [Wh det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strategy effectively neutralised what the Conservatives had hoped would be a vote-winner with an electorate wary about an upsurge in union power under Labour if it could be made an issue . |
| 2 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 3 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 4 | That 's correct Chairman I think erm , we will be looking obviously to see what the prospects were within er the urban area and er sites do and surprisingly do continue to arrive and come up and we some other uses , erm they would make some contribution obviously erm , the other options would as you say be to look beyond beyond the greenbelt at the opportunities that are available there . |
| 5 | On the rare occasions when the cooling towers are for maintenance , the staff wait eagerly to see what the pond reveals . |
| 6 | ‘ The client and I work together to see what the problem was in the past and how it affects the present . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 8 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 9 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 10 | But Sam can apparently do what the hell he likes , with as many women as he pleases ! ’ |
| 11 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 12 | Local authorities can only do what the law explicitly allows ; all council powers come from Acts of Parliament . |
| 13 | The cultural baggage which any social group , tribe , or institution such as the police acquires over time can thus be translated to reveal just what sustains it , and furthermore reveal what the society itself may not even have understood . |
| 14 | The Purchaser can only see what the Vendor makes available : it may not disclose everything . |
| 15 | A political gamble was taken too : that if hostages were released , Americans would not greatly mind what the price or the means had been . |
| 16 | In terms of the performance of the economy as a whole it is not entirely clear what the impact of regional disparities is , though it seems plausible that congestion in the south east and the under-utilisation of resources elsewhere represent a net loss to the economy overall . |
| 17 | At the moment I 'm not entirely clear what the difference is between these two forms of words . |
| 18 | The words were merely describing what the book was about . |
| 19 | The priest , understandably , flees ; the wife tells her husband that he is running off with the partridges , with the result that the husband pursues the priest brandishing his knife , apparently confirming what the wife told the priest . |
| 20 | Briefly , then , for we shall be returning to this same point later in the book , it can be said that the performance mode itself can be protective , either because it is seen to be mainly a technical or intellectual task , or because the dramatic form is powerful enough to enhance whatever the participants ' contribution might be . |
| 21 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 22 | I can perhaps anticipate what the Minister will say . |
| 23 | Jonathan Dollimore has noted that ‘ one problem in particular has exercised critics of Dr Faustus : its structure , inherited from the morality form , apparently negates what the play experientially affirms — the heroic aspiration of ‘ Renaissance man ’ ' . |
| 24 | The " fundamental " principle of education is that the head can only take what the seat can take . |
| 25 | ‘ I am pleased and excited that the Office of Communication 's long track record for media advocacy is being recognised by such a celebrated educational institution , even though we are only doing what the Gospels tell us to do , ’ said the Office 's Director , Dr Beverly J Chain . |
| 26 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 27 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |
| 28 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 29 | Only criticize what the person has done , not what sort of person they are . |
| 30 | Historians have long debated what the Globe looked like . |