Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] the [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The various databases available come with BT-written reference guides explaining what the sources offer and what uses they are designed for . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Regular sums of hard currency were put at his disposal so that he or his aides could buy whatever the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii wished . |
| 8 | He admits : ‘ The verdict was such a shock , but it 's only as time goes by you realise what the implications are . |
| 9 | To start with you need to know what the phonemes of the new language and their variants are . |
| 10 | I followed Ward 's lead as he seemed to know what the dishes were . |
| 11 | this afternoon , but we wo n't all be in that workshop , sorry , just to have , perhaps Samantha , if you 'd just say what of the new communications strategy , I think members ourselves , but in a sense it would be very useful to know what the others , perhaps we could take some of it back with us . |
| 12 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 13 | But the beaver was badgered by an impoverished law student who wanted to know what the Conservatives were going to do about grants and a mother concerned about education . |
| 14 | He wanted to know what the women 's commune was like that Roberta and Faye frequented . |
| 15 | Roger : Yes , but it 's too soon to know what the differences will be . |
| 16 | The CVR allows the investigator to know what the members of the flight crew were saying to each other , and to some extent what they were thinking , at relevant times during the flight . |
| 17 | Alright , so there 's this interest in what women talk about when they 're by themselves and when Martha comes down , she wants to know what the men have been talking about as well . |
| 18 | It would have been interesting to know what the men at the front thought of this account of their endeavours . |
| 19 | If you want to know what the messages are , you have to listen on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday next week by the way . |
| 20 | ‘ They need to know what the standards are in professional tennis these days . |
| 21 | And I 'd be interested to know what the masses of London think . ’ |
| 22 | What Labour Members say makes it sound as though they do not want parents to know what the schools that their children are attending are like . |
| 23 | In addition to the in hospital assessment , we also wanted to know what the patients thought about the amount of information they were given , and to do this we administered a telephone questionnaire consisting of six questions about their inpatient experiences , one of which read ‘ Was the amount of information you received before your operation too much , about right , or too little ? ’ |
| 24 | Coaches ought to know what the children should be practising . |
| 25 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 26 | it will be interesting to know what the Police Band costs , which the ratepayers never hear , and what did the rodeo , performed by the Mounted Section , cost the long-suffering ratepayers ? |
| 27 | Look , I need to know what the words ‘ communications satellite ’ mean . |
| 28 | For these reasons , it is useful to know what the words , phrases and constructions are which regularly conceal presuppositions , so that you know what you are letting yourself in for when you use them . |
| 29 | As a retired person living alone and needing to plan ahead , I need to know what the parties ' plans are on local taxation . |
| 30 | It 's difficult to know what the kids think of all of it — they 're really too young to say . |