Example sentences of "[noun] what [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay erm can you tell me in words what that formula means really ? |
| 2 | Scriptwriters Peter Lewis and Peter Dobereiner decided there should be a character who could put into words what young people were thinking . |
| 3 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 4 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 5 | To reinforce the point the BTA is to spend £2.5 million telling foreigners what good value Britain now has to offer . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received about his proposal to introduce a Bill to address problems of youngsters under 17 years stealing cars . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent representations he has received from business men about the need for the United Kingdom to remain a receptive and attractive base for inward investment . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent representations he has received from business men about the impact of the Trades Union Congress 's attitude to Japanese inward investment into the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent representations he has received from business men about the impact of regulatory burdens on industry . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what new incentive to manufacturers he intends to introduce to stimulate the home machine tool industry . |
| 12 | It thus gained for the coal industry what all organizations strive for , namely rational control of the environment through being better able to predict its fluctuations . |
| 13 | On the dredger what other jobs would you have to do in the way of maintenance , you said you had to repair the buckets . |
| 14 | By this it will have come to your lordship 's ears what little success my attempt to put forward your terms for negotiation achieved in the council . |
| 15 | Right across the divide we have Protestant and Catholic shop stewards and we certainly , at our shop stewards committee , are n't scared to debate any aspect of life in Northern Ireland and nobody takes the hump what one steward says or another steward says . |
| 16 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what recent assessment has been made of the effect on attendance figures of the introduction of admission charges to museums . |
| 17 | More resources are devoted to aspects of fiscal welfare than to cash benefits or service delivery and they are allocated in ways that pervert what individual service policies are seeking to achieve . |
| 18 | In effect what applied linguistics does is to enquire into cross-cultural accommodation : it transfers ideas and methods from different disciplinary cultures and seeks to demonstrate how they can be made coherent and effective in the different conditions of pedagogic practice . |
| 19 | President what this motion is calling for is a political backing required to remove compulsory competitive tendering . |
| 20 | I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares … |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent representations he has received about Sunday trading . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent representations he has received from the Northern Ireland business community in connection with small firms . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent discussions he has held with representatives of district councils and European Commission officials concerning the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received on the subject of Scottish government ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received about the home improvement grants scheme . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received from the Scottish steel industry . |
| 27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further action he intends to take in connection with the announced closure of Ravenscraig . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further representations he has received on hospitals applying for trust status . |
| 29 | His vassals were asked to swear on the Gospels what these rights and obligations ( deveriis ) were , and the thrust of the inquiry appears to have been towards municipal and communal liberties . |
| 30 | If we are to combat any attempt of the Right to exploit issues involving sexuality in order to hang onto power , we can not afford to neglect the virtue of solidarity — which involves a certain restraint concerning our feelings bout what other people do in bed . |