Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The network protocol basically decides what kind of adaptor your PC must have to connect to a LAN . |
| 2 | Heaven only knows what kind of pull is required to secure a seat in the cab , probably direct descent from the Mahdi at the very least . |
| 3 | G. accepts his suggestion and leaves , observing that he will be back fairly soon to see what sort of progress has been made . |
| 4 | I joined the said list earlier this week , just to see what kind of shite was going on there . |
| 5 | Thus , general practitioners in Bassetlaw should soon know what kind of role they will have in assessing people for community care . |
| 6 | I do not know what kind of verdict would be passed on the school if it were judged by modern educational standards . |
| 7 | In the detailed cross-tabulations for our main survey ( not always included in Appendix I ) , we found that women were much more likely to say they did not know what sort of interest rate to expect , and to say they did not understand interest rates well . |
| 8 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 9 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 10 | I was just wondering what sort of future you wanted to see for women in terms of their awareness of their own power ? |
| 11 | Never mind , you have a definition — you are a ‘ bad child ’ , which is infinitely preferable to not knowing what sort of child you are at all . |
| 12 | The prediction is indeed borne out ; contrast ( 13 ) and ( 14 ) : ( 13 ) a total one the mere one ( 14 ) a rudimentary one the deciduous one Even when we can not tell what sort of being or object is designated by one in examples like ( 14 ) , they will still be grammatically acceptable unlike the anomalous phrases in ( 13 ) . |
| 13 | so you 've already established what sort of figure they 're |
| 14 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 15 | To her knowledge she had never led anyone into anything she could n't handle herself , but as he had pointed out before , she could n't always know what sort of reaction she was stirring in those who listened to her songs . |
| 16 | The chief executive of the SSPCA , Richard Morris , added : ‘ It hardly matters what kind of lamb crop some farmers get , they will get the subsidies regardless . ’ |
| 17 | But when he mentioned that the MacQuillan business in the United States was in trouble , she automatically asked what sort of trouble . |
| 18 | Since it is just as important to press foliage as it is flowers if you want to create realistic pressed pictures , you should carefully consider what sort of foliage to grow . |
| 19 | Because such structures are ‘ conventional , and hence culturally variable ’ ( van Dijk and Kintsch 1983:16 ) the language learner , in order to be able to operate effectively as a participant in discourse , needs to be able both to identify what type of discourse he or she is involved in , and to predict how it will typically be structured . |
| 20 | Maybe he can only perform on nice pitches ( at the beginning and end of a season ? ? ) and also remember what sort of service hed get from chappy ! ! |
| 21 | Because I think she probably depended what sort of house household you were in . |
| 22 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 23 | Did he really know what type of woman Janice was ? |
| 24 | You do n't really know what sort of money they have got do you ? |
| 25 | I ca n't really describe what sort of place this is . |
| 26 | Yeah , it gives you something nice and easy to tell you about , cos we 've all got we all roughly know what sort of cover we 've got . |
| 27 | For you know I often wonder what sort of morality it is that keeps men from anything but superficial intercourse with any woman but their wives : yet I hate adultery & all the intermediate stages ; and what men of free habits in this way I have known , I have detested . |
| 28 | They would rather go and burgle a house that is n't alarmed , erm because they do n't know what type of alarm you 've got there . |
| 29 | The problem is we do n't know what type of animal we are . |
| 30 | Well not you know cleaning so I do n't know what kind of work they do . |