Example sentences of "[verb] what [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process of abstraction is intended to focus on those elements which are the most important in explaining what happens in the real world . |
| 2 | The tree itself is beautiful but the combination of the clay soil and the shade from the tree means its not easy to know what to grow in the west-facing border underneath . |
| 3 | He would n't know what to do in the outside world . |
| 4 | ‘ We will see what happens in the next 24 hours . |
| 5 | He decided to wait and see what happened in the other rehearsals . |
| 6 | But , as we shall see , it was not the Bolshevik position on the question which alone determined what happened in the Russian empire , nor is it clear that , in practice , the Bolsheviks had had any real alternative if the revolution was to be successful . |
| 7 | ‘ I know what happened in the early years was morally wrong . |
| 8 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 9 | The fire Research Station 's fire Detection Department built a full sized hotel corridor and , for the first time , has monitored what happens in the early stages of a typical hotel fire . |
| 10 | try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army . |
| 11 | Now we have the ocean and the atmosphere and we can go and we go forward and , in a good year , if we 're lucky , the way the model evolves with the ocean driving the atmosphere and the atmosphere driving the ocean , mimics what happens in the real world and so we can make a prediction . |
| 12 | They are : ( 1 ) the relationship between psychology and biology and the possibility of dispensing with psychology altogether once physiology has been developed sufficiently ; ( 2 ) the value of studies on non-human species ; ( 3 ) the degree of functional specialization in the sub-areas of the brain and the ways of analysing and describing those functions ; ( 4 ) the way we are responding to the challenges of cognitive psychology ; and ( 5 ) the importance of being able to explain what happens in the real world , rather than just the laboratory . |
| 13 | Indeed , for most of human history we have tended to do the reverse , to use the analogy of the human mind to explain what happens in the physical world , an approach known as ‘ animism ’ . |
| 14 | I am afraid the latter-day Pop artists think of themselves as being a culmination of the expression of cultural realism and they regard what happened in the Sixties as a primitive expression of their more developed ideas , which seems to me far from the truth . |
| 15 | Erm , wh most of these criticisms would become far more exaggerated or far more relevant if you considered what happens in the real world . |
| 16 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |