Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants to know how I discovered the Old Rectory . |
| 2 | I want to know where you got the drugs , who from , and who you took them with . ’ |
| 3 | If you 've been impressed so far , you 'll be pleased to know that there 's even more to discover when you see the new Moffat Discovery for yourself . |
| 4 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 5 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 6 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |
| 7 | At the end of your editorial ( ‘ Starting again ’ , 17 April ) you make the point that the Labour Party has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the recent election and this is a good reason to put back the choice of a new leader . |
| 8 | The Worlds Edge Mountains are extremely tall and almost impossible to cross where they border the Empire . |
| 9 | However , there is no doubt that we all fly better if we fly regularly and it is a good policy to fly whenever you have the opportunity . |
| 10 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 11 | To understand Bukharin 's particular views on the transition period to socialism it is necessary to understand how he viewed the then current stage of capitalist development . |
| 12 | It is the Housing Executive 's responsibility to determine how it spends the funds that the Government make available to it . |
| 13 | Extreme opinions are taken up — which is not easy to understand when you consider the principles involved . |
| 14 | The additional shine will make the nameplate that much easier for your grandchildren to recognise when they see the piece on Antiques Roadshow in a hundred years or so ! |
| 15 | Each of us has to decide how we understand the ‘ authority ’ of the Bible . |
| 16 | After April 1993 , couples will have greater freedom to decide how they wish the allowance to be split . |
| 17 | It then goes on to describe how he joined the Roux brothers in London and finally opened his own restaurant in Chelsea . |
| 18 | Mr Patten spent much of yesterday emphasising that he wanted to respect local decisions , and that once the regions and his department had worked out overall allocations , it was for local electorates to decide where they put the bricks and mortar . |
| 19 | It is hard to see how they benefit the child . |
| 20 | Thirty pupils from Lark 's Rise primary school were given a green tour of the store to see how they protect the environment , but Laura , Gregory and Rose were clear about the best part of their day . |
| 21 | The ozone layers and erm the advent of carbon dioxide and these sorts of things , we 're studying this all the time to see how it affects the atmosphere , how it therefore affects our weather . |
| 22 | I did n't like to think why they needed the local paper . |
| 23 | Almost identical characters ( played there by William Baldwin and Charlie Sheen ) were central to Backdraft and The Rookie , two of the least impressive films of last year , and it 's hard to see why anyone thought the idea was worth doing even once . |
| 24 | However , if the tribunal had implied similar words into Sec 24 it is difficult to see why it found the reason for the dismissal was , in fact , ‘ some other substantial reason ’ , viz , the conviction . |
| 25 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 26 | ‘ It will also be interesting to see where he gets the time from too , because there 's his solo album release , our anthology , and then in September Mick , Stevie ( Nicks ) , Chris , myself and Billy start a new Fleetwood Mac album , which marks the end of Christine 's ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 27 | The links are n't constantly updated but can be set to update whenever you load the document again . |
| 28 | Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant . |
| 29 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 30 | ( Searle , 1980 , 1981 , and 1984 , Lect. 2 ) That such a thing could instantiate such a programme , as already remarked , necessarily is allowed by the proponents of causalism and functionalism. ( v ) To add something unfamiliar , functionalism will need to explain how it avoids the absurd conclusion that consciousness is , so to speak , not merely independent of biology , but entirely independent of all instantiations of programmes and the like , which is to say entirely independent of persons , computers , and all other spatio-temporal things . |