Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] what the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the questionnaires and the structured interviews tend to concentrate on what the customer likes and dislikes , rather than why . |
| 2 | My plan is to consider inter-relations between welfare improvement and the safeguarding of the environment , but first I want to talk about what the term ‘ welfare ’ means , and how we can use it in a scientific way . |
| 3 | The other thing which is actually mentioned that we one of the worst aspects was done and I personally tried to look at what the impact on road building around elsewhere and it is absolutely appalling and er I think that is something which is to be , I 'm sure it will be , will be called out . |
| 4 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 5 | Tony admits that the price is calculated according to what the market will bear , not , as Adam Smith and his fan club would like , by examining his costs and fixing a price which allowed a modest profit . |
| 6 | ( And then when they 're older , a mother tends to worry about what the reason for |
| 7 | I is interesting to not how closely their perceptions of what was needed tallied with what the service providers perceived as the language skills which were needed to allow them to work effectively . |
| 8 | That 's the next step we st we may need to treat your tummy with something else after that but I think that 's rather go going to depend on what the chest X-ray shows , and how you feel . |
| 9 | It is quite common in talking about teaching to focus on what the teacher does and to forget the effect this may have on the learner . |
| 10 | A a a member of staff may feel that they want to say something about a kid , and it does not necessarily have to agree with what the kid |
| 11 | However , because of the limitations in the design of the study it was not clear to what extent the link between subjective risk and recall was caused by less interesting factors such as the type of memory test used , the fact that risk ratings were previously given by the drivers , and the expectations subjects may have had of what the study was about . |
| 12 | This marketing approach to products has been beneficial for the consumer because it determines what a company will sell based on what the consumer wants , or the market place is ready to discover and buy , rather than on hope and guesswork . |
| 13 | And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on . |
| 14 | And that 's when you get your presenter out and start matching to what the customer wants . |
| 15 | He dismisses the popular theory of the need to price according to what the market will bear . |
| 16 | England was finally forced to look at what the rest of the world had been doing with the game . |
| 17 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |
| 18 | There had been an inquest and the coroner had dwelt with what the family considered unnecessary emphasis on the theft of the car and the woman 's motives for driving recklessly about the countryside at the dead of night . |
| 19 | ‘ I prefer to stay with what the scene started with — small parties , ’ he says . |
| 20 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 21 | Goddess , I ca n't bear to think of what the scum who come here will do to hir . |
| 22 | Er , I noticed Mrs is in the audience , is there anything you 'd like to say referring to what the officer |
| 23 | The answer is likely to be more predictable if they are continuously kept informed of what the head and governors are seeking from other local schools and how they assess their own school 's effectiveness . |
| 24 | Well Mr er pleading guilty to these offenses and we 've listened to what the solicitor has said on your behalf the main offence of having no excise licence you 'll be fined seventy five pounds and be willing to pay eighty pounds thirty three back duty and ten pounds costs and for the offenses of failing to produce you 'll be fined ten pounds for each of those three offenses . |
| 25 | Now Mr er you pleaded guilty to these offences and we 've listened to what the solicitor has said on your behalf . |
| 26 | So you check your understanding and you 've listened to what the guy has said . |
| 27 | Some children never learn it , not because they can not read , but because the books they are given do not include this need to attend to what the author is not saying — the beginning of an experience that leads to Jane Austen . |
| 28 | ‘ We have to focus on what the customer actually wants . |