Example sentences of "finding out [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both market research and government survey units use consumer panels of housewives for budget enquiries , finding out what the housewife spends on what over a given period by means of a diary of spending . |
| 2 | Their relatively humdrum job these days is merely to argue about the best mechanism for finding out what the people want , the best way of looking after the country 's interests abroad and , in economics , the rival merits of maximising productive efficiency and maximising compassion for the poor devils who get least out of the efficiency . |
| 3 | We are interested here in finding out what the norms are within a single social stratum and how they function for the speakers : at this point in our work we have no justification for relating this pattern to social class differences . |
| 4 | The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored . |
| 5 | What about us finding out what the is like ? |
| 6 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 7 | Short of raiding the place , there was no way of finding out what the boxes contained . |
| 8 | As in a linguistic analysis , he begins by finding out what the basic units of combination are ( by analogy with the phonemes , morphemes , etc. which constitute the basic units of language ) . |
| 9 | As he spoke there were others who were not enjoying themselves quite so much , for the wind had got up and men were finding out what the soft spring this year had done to nurture growth in the grass lurking on either side of the fairways . |
| 10 | A major prerequisite to successful information systems is therefore finding out what the organisation is about , what direction it is going and what information is required to support these goals . |
| 11 | Oh well he was only just finding out what the rules were . |