Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now let us take a look to see what the future might hold . |
| 2 | I , however was lost in a daydream wondering what the Queen would be like . |
| 3 | The naming is crucial , for not only does this make it possible to contrast one kind of relationship with another , it also allows the group as a collectivity to determine what the " proper " behavioural concomitants of the relationship should be . |
| 4 | Finally we asked very loudly if the store was going broke and somebody within earshot scooted out of a doorway to see what the ruckus was about . |
| 5 | Mr Browning said : ‘ I shall now look for a lawyer to explore what the Ariadne Galleries are prepared to offer me . ’ |
| 6 | See I 'm gon na use this as a exercise to prove what a charmer I am basically ! |
| 7 | As a place to observe what the DEA was up to in Nicosia , Coleman found the Eurame Trading Company ideal , but from his very first day on the job , he had an uncomfortable feeling that the same might be true for the opposition . |
| 8 | Firms have a right to charge what the market will bear — as long as it is a competitive market . |
| 9 | Federal Judge , Harold Green , ordered the immediate release of the transcript , saying the public has a right to know what the former president said . |
| 10 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 11 | Although there is unanimous agreement that the profession should do everything possible to keep self-regulation and that both roles should somehow be kept within the Institute 's ambit , there is a desire to discuss what the Beds , Bucks and Herts Society describes as an ‘ underlying feeling of unease about the dual role ’ . |
| 12 | They all sat around in a circle agreeing what a swine Henry was . |
| 13 | Travelogues were immensely popular , people had n't the resources to travel in those days easily unless they were wealthy , and here was a chance to see what the world was like in various places that were inaccessible erm to the average member of the audience . |
| 14 | But Jess was not to hear the rumours or have a chance to ask what a syndicate was , because Sally and Salt came back , and seconds later a rather rosy Mrs Stocks reappeared clutching two bottles of brandy . |
| 15 | An advance visit gives you a chance to assess what the firm is like , what the other people are like and also how they dress , so that you can go appropriately dressed for the interview . |
| 16 | In tennis he will ask his students to call out their estimate of the height of the ball above the net as it crosses from side to side , or he will ask them to shout ‘ Bounce ’ each time the ball bounces and ‘ Hit ’ each time it is hit , giving Self 2 a chance to show what a fluent player he really is . |
| 17 | To put it in the broadest possible terms , we can see that intonation makes it easier for a listener to understand what a speaker is trying to convey . |
| 18 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which were almost hypothetical . |
| 19 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which are almost hypothetical . |
| 20 | I suggested we might use it for publicity , ie the costs of producing and printing a leaflet explaining what the SCC is and its aims , for a general audience , especially the participants of mass bike events such as St Andrews ride , Tour de Forth etc . |
| 21 | Without such a mechanism , all communication is just ‘ cheap talk ’ : there is no reason for a firm to believe what the others say . |
| 22 | Next month Guinness Today will give you a chance to find out , with a competition to guess what a whole host of strange and enigmatic terms mean . |
| 23 | A juror asked what the comforts were , for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room , the windows of which were broken . |
| 24 | Love is meeting needs , which means that anyone motivated to love automatically assumes a burden to discover what the needs are . |
| 25 | Just a line to say what a beastly profession I think politics are — and how greatly I admire your dignity and good humour . |
| 26 | But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 28 | A time to discover what the children needed most . |
| 29 | Did you ever have an opportunity to see what the tramps actually carried with them ? |
| 30 | By 1920 , there could be a pause for breath , an attempt to remember what the meaning of the revolution was supposed to be . |