Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in this sense of extension of the basic , restricted theory , that I offer what I would call for the purposes of this discussion , the polytraumatic theory . |
| 2 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 3 | jaundiced , jaundiced activist shall I call myself I mean a point of view mentioned recognition of the River Authorities , I mean erm the latest pay awards I mean we have n't had too much to gloat about have we ? this , this is what the m this is what we can do for the members . |
| 4 | Right , so now we 've got round to what we can do for the casualty , let's have a look and see what the body 's trying to do here and then we 'll say how you 'll help them a bit more . |
| 5 | So what we can see for the activist nought to three is a very low preference so Irene has come out as a , a very low preference on that , four to six is a low preference so that 's seven to ten is the sort of average so that one 's the average , that one |
| 6 | Therefore , if the completion of ( what we will call for the moment ) a ‘ unit of information ’ is important in sentence processing , rather than the completion of a clause , monitoring latencies for the word cat should not be significantly different in sentences ( 1a ) and ( 1b ) . |
| 7 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 8 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
| 9 | The policy statement , Paying for a Beautiful Countryside , suggests farmers should be invited to say what they can produce for the good of the countryside , rather than being compensated for not carrying out certain types of farming . |
| 10 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 11 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 12 | In order to make appeal to this methodology , which is very commonly used in linguistic and philosophical discussion , we need to know what it would mean for the context to be ‘ slightly different ’ . |
| 13 | Until fairly recently I do n't think people have understood the design process or what it can do for the success of their companies . |