Example sentences of "[verb] what [vb -s] [prep] 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 | We — that is you and 1 — as well as the Yek , ought to know what lies beyond the Great Sea . |
| 3 | Here we talk to former teachers , old friends and relatives in a special TODAY investigation to discover what lies inside the tortured soul of Sinead . |
| 4 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 5 | There is a concerted desire to destroy what remains of the referential illusion : what seems ‘ real ’ is immediately transformed into another representation in the form of a painting , a postcard or a film . |
| 6 | It does not matter what happens to the public reputation of John Donne . |
| 7 | I 'm sure the win will do wonders for the team 's confidence , but let's see what happens for the next 5 games at least before we make rash predictions . |
| 8 | ‘ We will see what happens in the next 24 hours . |
| 9 | The table overleaf shows what happens under the new ( and reducing ) capital allowances : |
| 10 | You should always ask the questions , and that is another way that people will understand that you know what goes on the other side of the microphone . |
| 11 | It is about people coming to identify and express personal feelings , wishes and circumstances and coming to understand what contributes to the positive and negative of their existence . |
| 12 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 13 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We are often asked what happens to the left-over books . |
| 16 | However , the evangelical element in the DUP refuses to cultivate such links and occasionally offends the ordinary Protestant voter by taking what appears to the general unionist public as an ‘ extreme ’ stand . |
| 17 | You 'll have to wait to see what happens to the Famous Five until he can read it to you in his own inept fashion . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 've lost what seems like the only control in my life . |
| 20 | I 've lost what seems like the only control in my life |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The agent and artist do n't care what happens to the other 50p , whether it is spent either as the show 's costs or as the promoter 's profit . |
| 23 | This is the language of the press release , breathlessly informing us that a speculator whose environmental record is not exactly unblemished and whose monstrous Land 's End ‘ facilities ’ are a blight against all aesthetic considerations , really does care what happens to the dear little flowers that have taken eternity to develop , and the cuddly cliff faces which shake and quiver at the climber 's intrusive touch . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 27 | April does n't have to be a month of trials and tribulations or agonising over career or professional matters , if you are prepared to make some snap decisions and take what transpires towards the very end of March as a signal to go even further out on a limb . |
| 28 | Erm , wh most of these criticisms would become far more exaggerated or far more relevant if you considered what happens in the real world . |
| 29 | Until we get the full implications of the Taylor Report and discover what happens over the identity-card issue , we will have to sit tight . |
| 30 | Notice what happens to the general level of pitch after a pause , e.g. does a downward trend continue until the end of the utterance ( a ) ? , or , is there a return to a high pitch after each pause ( b ) ? |