Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 2 | This right to redress which the law confers on the possessor is independent of , and at least as old as , if not older than , the legal protection given to the owner . |
| 3 | The example of Ballymurphy Knitwear is apposite — a community initiative which failed because of inadequate resourcing and government support for the manifest will to work which the women involved displayed . |
| 4 | Dunedin has what the Book of Records claims to be the world 's steepest street , with a gradient of 1 in 1.4 . |
| 5 | The researcher can then produce a brief for the creative team which should include what the status of the product is seen to be , who their consumers are , what the advertising is supposed to be doing and a whole host of other basic data . |
| 6 | ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter . |
| 7 | The WES has a network of proselytisers doing something about that , explaining what an engineer is to schoolgirls . |
| 8 | While she was ponderously explaining what an LOA presentation was , they could n't probe at him . |
| 9 | The various databases available come with BT-written reference guides explaining what the sources offer and what uses they are designed for . |
| 10 | I suggested we might use it for publicity , ie the costs of producing and printing a leaflet explaining what the SCC is and its aims , for a general audience , especially the participants of mass bike events such as St Andrews ride , Tour de Forth etc . |
| 11 | ASUTRAMES gave out leaflets , explaining what the government was trying to do with those " elections " . |
| 12 | Each new member of staff receives a five page letter from Mr Nitschke explaining what the hotel is about and he still attends the induction programme each Monday morning . |
| 13 | At the end of any article it is normal to give conclusions , explaining what the article means in a short , pithy summary , but I want to create debate , not stifle discussion , so after each article I will simply pose some questions and let readers create their own ideas . |
| 14 | At present he was with a party of police officers visiting the United States and Inspector Blakelock was totally in charge doing the two jobs , not only receiving the exhibits , making out the register of court attendances and preparing the statistics , but discussing the cases with the detective in charge , explaining what the Laboratory could hope to do , rejecting those cases where the scientists could n't help , and checking that the final statements for the court were complete . |
| 15 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 16 | Mrs Burrows was careful to indicate what a privilege this was , her only son and she , Alexandra , a nobody and a temporary resident at that . |
| 17 | Ken Collins , MEP , says that there is not much evidence to show that compliance with legislation is improving , partly because there is little information to indicate what the state of the environment actually is . |
| 18 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 19 | It was not possible to indicate what the premium would be if cover were to be provided automatically , because the BMIF was a separate body and was not prepared to consider this . |
| 20 | It is an attempt to meet what the Secretary of State for Wales described as the widow factor . |
| 21 | So , instead of a straightforward chemical manufactured by everybody else we can now offer a range of different properties to meet what the market wants . ’ |
| 22 | Section 38 specifies what the expression means . |
| 23 | And the other one just specifies what the path is , does n't it ? |
| 24 | Most straightforwardly one could simply describe what a pupil understands , knows and can do … |
| 25 | Can you describe what the Higgs boson is — and why you would like to find it — on single sheet of paper ? |
| 26 | Indeed the next hours after my return were spent explaining that we had no plans to use either troops or tanks and justifying what a BBC interviewer referred to as my ‘ controversial ’ four-day summer holiday . |
| 27 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 28 | Japan 's growing influence as a member of the Western camp has encouraged a greater questioning within Japan of how far to accept what the West has to offer . |
| 29 | Certainly the crisis over Maastricht is no nearer solution , especially as the Government still refuses to accept what the Treaty is about . |
| 30 | The real problem is that the Government refuses to accept what the Maastricht Treaty is about . |