Example sentences of "[det] about [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 2 | They know little about what they are being asked to invest in , but they do believe that the Government 's determination to make the privatisation succeed will ensure that the water authorities are presented as a steal . |
| 3 | To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like . |
| 4 | They talked very little about what went on down there among the trees . |
| 5 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 6 | In fact , Figure 3.1 tells us very little about what kind of changes are involved in the shift from manufacturing to services or the type of economy that may be emerging . |
| 7 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 8 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 9 | At present , we know very little about what ordinary people feel or think about science . |
| 10 | Can I ask you Professor Lock to say a little about what you consider the housing implications of such a policy might be ? |
| 11 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 12 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 13 | The adjective beautiful , for example , denotes a quality which can be found in many different objects and therefore does not by itself indicate the nature of that about which it is said . |
| 14 | But biologists can be much more specific than that about what would constitute being " good for something " . |
| 15 | a nap is that about what you wanted ? |
| 16 | put erm all this about what you think force is |
| 17 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 18 | He could n't even ask too much about what had happened . |
| 19 | I sometimes wish I did n't think so much about what I do , and just pottered along doing it the way it 's always been done ( like the bloke in the next-door room does ! ) . |
| 20 | It is concerned with telling you as much about what we do n't yet know as about what we do know . |
| 21 | Few people in Polruan knew much about what went on behind the big iron gates that guarded the entrance to Roscarrock Hall , because Sir Gregory had taken the prudent step of making his household almost self-sufficient , and traders were seldom required to call . |
| 22 | I 'm not so sure this applicant knows very much about what 's going on here anyway your worship ! |
| 23 | Well I 'm not so sure this applicant knows very much about what 's going on here anyway Your Worships . |
| 24 | You see he does n't know much about what happened before he met me . |
| 25 | And tell me about the lady who did abortions , erm , did you know very much about what sort of people they were ? |
| 26 | ‘ Do you think we think too much about what we eat ? ’ asked Scarlet , who was beginning to get tired of reading all the labels in the supermarket before buying even a packet of dried beans . |
| 27 | You know much about what the company does . |
| 28 | There is a mixture of indicators , but on the whole the adverse indicators seem heavier and more serious than the favourable ones , many of which are things such as confidence surveys , which do not tell one very much about what will happen . |
| 29 | It 's a business that is increasingly professional in its approach , because we are also in a business where we have to convince our clients that we know as much about what we do in our companies as they know about theirs . |
| 30 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |