Example sentences of "what [noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Before investigating further what Lyons has to say about literacy , then , it is important to analyse what he means by ‘ objectivity ’ and what force arguments about it have within his own discipline .
2 What we can glean , though , and what Goody appears to take at face value , is some insight into how they represented themselves , such as in the statements they made about the reliability of their own accounts .
3 What Franco failed to take into account , however , was , first , that Germany had its own designs on French Morocco ; second , that Hitler did not want to provoke Free French/Allied resistance in North Africa which would oblige him to open a new military front far away from what was then his principal concern , namely the invasion of the British Isles ; and , third , that Hitler was not convinced of the need or utility of Spanish military help .
4 Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind .
5 Shakespeare , we do n't know what Shakespeare wanted to do on stage , he does n't give you any idea at all .
6 The response is a naive one ; but perhaps what Gandhi wanted to convey in answer to this question was that his faith in the principle of non-violence and truth had not been shattered by the use of the atom bomb .
7 It will be clear , I think , to anyone reading what Karajan has to say in Chapter 6 of these Conversations that his is an enterprise of particular historical significance .
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