Example sentences of "what [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions Ministers in his Department have had with the Government of Guyana concerning trade since 1986 .
2 I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front .
3 No doubt we shall be told that this was exactly what General Schwarzkopf planned .
4 let's have a look in Woolworth 's , I have n't been in there for ages , see what Easter eggs they 've got
5 For what toy boy ?
6 But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over .
7 The European Dimensions differ in detail from their US counterparts , but are still aimed at what Roger Stone , European product marketing manager euphemistically calls ‘ the value segment ’ of the market .
8 Yes well , for the experimental aircraft programme British Aerospace specified what G E C had to do and er a a this time , if you like , Deutsch Aerospace has taken on the equivalent role that B A E had for the experimental aircraft programme and er Deutsch Aerospace are not without experience in flight controls they have .
9 G M B is very busy and very influential on your behalf at European level and we appreciate what G M B does for us .
10 This case may be an example , more physical than usual , of what Arnold Wesker calls ‘ Lilliputianism — the poisonous need to cut other people down to size . ’
11 But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’
12 As well as assesing how much is retained , tests will be designed to assess what kind knowledge drops out what kind is retained , and how knowledge structures change over time .
13 Halfway down the Haymarket , now quite a distance from Piccadilly Circus , Neil paused , breathless , and afterwards wondered what kind god had arranged for him to be where he was .
14 Chaffee ( 1985 ) , for example , identifies three models of the strategy construct : linear analysis ( essentially a linear deductive process aimed at achieving specific managerial objectives ) , adaptive analysis ( responding to environmental objectives , and providing the appropriate organizational match ) and interpretative analysis ( conceptualizing what change means to different individuals ; legitimating developments ; developing symbols to encourage action and taking action to create symbols of desired behaviour ; improving relationships ) .
15 diverting attention from his hopelessness , while helping the group to support him vis-a-vis the child to be helped — not by recounting their own success stories but by recognising what support potential he might already have , buried as it was but ready to be drawn out by support from others .
16 It does n't matter what building society you go to .
17 it does n't matter what building society you go to , you 're gon na be paying basically the same rate .
18 What direction wind was it ?
19 He was to motor racing what Denis Compton was to cricket and Stanley Matthews was to football .
20 They must crush what defence secretary Tom King has called Iraq 's ‘ monstrous military machine ’ .
21 Because what defence mechanisms do is is as says , is fend the unconscious off from the conscious .
22 If Painkiller were to dump John Zorn 's sax squawk and turn their Marshalls to the max then they might just be edging close to what Zeni Geva and Albini have cooked up here .
23 With what reliability will computer processing be achieved on the proposed configuration(s) ?
24 Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth .
25 So let's put the record straight and see what part fibre plays in weight loss , health , and appetite control .
26 Also , I am wondering what part Claudia 's lover , the laibon 's brother , should take in this .
27 First of all there is the question of what part censorship plays in book selection .
28 The greatest change will be in the public perception of what part universities play in the education system .
29 What curriculum benefits does Compact provide ?
30 Cotoneaster ‘ Hybridus Pendulus ’ is , in wildlife terms , what Ian Botham is to cricket — in the allrounder class for usefulness .
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