Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When confronted with a small garden for the first time , its often difficult to know what to do for the best . |
| 2 | We — that is you and 1 — as well as the Yek , ought to know what lies beyond the Great Sea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 9 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 10 | Festinger and his colleagues wished to study what happened in a religious sect when their prophecy that the world was coming to an end on a particular day turned out to be wrong ( Festinger , Rieken , and Schachter 1956 ) . |
| 11 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
| 12 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
| 13 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
| 14 | Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material . |
| 15 | As Gentle reached the river 's other bank Pie'oh'pah turned and fled , throwing himself over the wall into the park without seeming to care what lay on the other side : anything to be out of Gentle 's sight . |
| 16 | James ( 1890 ) was perhaps the first to offer what amounts to an associative account of the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 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 | After hours of saturating bombardment , the German assault troops would surge forward to carry what remained of the French front line . |
| 19 | If the patient has successfully carried out the task that was agreed he should now be helped to plan what to do before the next session . |
| 20 | Unfortunately for those of a nervous DOSposition ( rotten pun , I know ) the FastLynx package has no install utility , so setting up the device drivers to enable what amounts to a two machine network involves rolling up the sleeves and getting stuck into editing a file or two . |
| 21 | Alternatively , the industry could be in the hands of a private firm which would have its prices regulated by the state in such a way as to earn what approximates to a normal rate of return on capital employed . |
| 22 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Second , just as Dear 's image of a few hundred ‘ young black criminals ’ was used to explain what happened in Handsworth , the problem of drugs was used to explain what happened at a national level . |
| 26 | Neither the political right nor left wants to tell what happened from the 1920s through 1945 . |
| 27 | With 20 minutes left the goalkeeper had to make what looked like an orthodox clearance , but the ball hit one of his own defenders and Brown 's quick reaction put him in possession . |
| 28 | On the day that Wilson was elected to office , he telephoned me , tracking me down to a restaurant in London , to enquire what to do about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . |