Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [verb] [prep] the [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 | 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 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 . |
| 7 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 8 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After hours of saturating bombardment , the German assault troops would surge forward to carry what remained of the French front line . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Neither the political right nor left wants to tell what happened from the 1920s through 1945 . |
| 20 | 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 . |