Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's not just letting the excesses go which I think understand it when you first said it , so that idea in itself is a Party idea , it 's not just letting the , the peasants do it and say well okay what you 're trying to say now is that okay that we have got this strategy , we 'll let the excesses go and then we 'll stop it , we get to about stage B and stage C and move on and move on . |
| 2 | The pickets knew what to expect : they 'd been warned it could turn nasty , and it did . |
| 3 | The Jayhawks know what it 's like laying dimes on railroad tracks and bareback horse-riding through Nevada ( trainspotting in Crewe and donkey rides in Brighton do n't have quite the same ring ) . |
| 4 | The slavers knew what their slaves were about to discover — that language is a form of power . |
| 5 | We ought to be able to creep out easily when they 're all asleep , ’ he added and Fenella frowned at him , because they could not risk the giants guessing what they intended to do . |
| 6 | I shall take advantage of the discussions to consider what improvements can be made . |
| 7 | The patterns reflect what is going on in the horse 's foot , and especially in its tendons . |
| 8 | In the above quote , Sioned is simply acknowledging the authority of the lecturers to define what ‘ physics ’ is , and accepting that this will necessarily result in formal relationships . |
| 9 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
| 10 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 11 | Chair , where , where erm , agreements er , leave things open wherever possible , the courts will interpret them as the parties intended to act reasonably one to the other , and er , if there were a formal agreement and that was then tested it would be a matter for the courts to decide what was reasonable , obviously asking for , what was it you 're suggesting , ten million ? |
| 12 | The only recompe the only resource anyone has is to go to the courts , for the courts to decide what the law is at that present moment . |
| 13 | This legislation is given legal effect upon subjects by virtue of judicial decision , and it is the function of the courts to say what the application of the words used to particular cases or individuals is to be . |
| 14 | But towards the end of the eighteenth century the courts developed what Jay Cohen calls ‘ a more expansive definition ’ of the term , which made many non-traders eligible for discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 15 | In the context of litigation , this is done by the courts : the courts decide which activities are subject to which legal controls ; and such decisions are , essentially , political decisions . |
| 16 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
| 17 | Becoming angry in the face of this reception , the Germans started what subsequently became known as a rastrellamento , which literally means a raking — a detailed search of the area . |
| 18 | Remembering that the blanks show which needles are selected , it is easy to see , on the card . |
| 19 | There was a profit of $2.1m in the Homeowners account which compared with a loss in the same period last year of $8.3m . |
| 20 | In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean . |
| 21 | But last week the Russians admitted what aircraft experts have long claimed-that at least seven in 10 of its fleet have reached the end of their ‘ useful life ’ . |
| 22 | The other bodyguard was being kept out of sight while the Russians decided what to do . |
| 23 | This concept is then expanded by looking at specific areas within the personnel function which can benefit from this approach , and the various computer solutions to these requirements are reviewed . |
| 24 | So those less likely to buy the products knew what these could and could not achieve , whilst potential consumers remained misguided by the original advertisements . |
| 25 | It implies a certain commitment to the user and his or her needs , and it implies a particular kind of responsibility to ensure that the user has the skills to obtain what is needed : that is , to obtain the right information or material , in the right form , so that the user can benefit from it . |
| 26 | The Secretariat of the Central Committee is given the teeth to do what it is meant to do : appoint , control access to decision-makers and supervise the policy which the Politburo formulates . |
| 27 | On Dada he wrote : ‘ With robust iconoclastic humor the Dadaists mocked what they considered the sorry shams of European culture . |
| 28 | Political hot potatoes include the pylons scheme which is planned for Cleveland and North Yorkshire and the Department of Environment 's decision on whether to allow a toxic waste incinerator at Portrack . |
| 29 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 30 | In all these cases , it is very difficult for the authorities to predict what people 's speculation will be . |