Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] the [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 | The various databases available come with BT-written reference guides explaining what the sources offer and what uses they are designed for . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ASUTRAMES gave out leaflets , explaining what the government was trying to do with those " elections " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is an attempt to meet what the Secretary of State for Wales described as the widow factor . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Section 38 specifies what the expression means . |
| 19 | And the other one just specifies what the path is , does n't it ? |
| 20 | Can you describe what the Higgs boson is — and why you would like to find it — on single sheet of paper ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Certainly the crisis over Maastricht is no nearer solution , especially as the Government still refuses to accept what the Treaty is about . |
| 24 | The real problem is that the Government refuses to accept what the Maastricht Treaty is about . |
| 25 | You erm , very accurately analysed what the problems where with Barbara , who did n't know her job , did n't know who her customers were etcetera , Bernard and Tony . |
| 26 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 27 | Newspapers like Moscow News and Nezavisimaya Gazeta ( Independent Newspaper ) busily report what the president does not want to hear . |
| 28 | If the answer to the problem is doubtful , say so , and then suggest what the answer ought to be . |
| 29 | These also suggest what the answer should be or indicate the questioner 's point of view , e.g. ‘ Are you against excessive cuts in university funding ? ’ . |
| 30 | And the last one is the pragmatist erm we 've got Mark , John and Marie who have come out quite high on the on the The pragmatist th the title that you suggest what the situations you actually learn best from and pragmatists like training its practical |