Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] what [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later we find Pemberton speculating about his future role with respect to " his little charge " , but at that stage we can only guess what this role will be . |
| 2 | And while he was about it , Guy told himself savagely , he had better discover what little plot Isabel had in mind once she reached Winchester . |
| 3 | Perhaps I 'll just explain what this is about , chairs , it 's not very self- explanatory . |
| 4 | And I 'll just compare what each of you say and I 'm going to give you some information er researched by . |
| 5 | ‘ I would only consider using it in very particular circumstances , and for obvious reasons , I would not predict what those circumstances might be . ’ |
| 6 | But Aqib countered : ‘ We did not know what all the fuss was about . |
| 7 | School Drama Festivals , Youth Drama Festivals with notable exceptions almost disappeared ( there must be a generation of young teachers coming into our profession who do not know what such things are ) and even Adult Drama Festivals ( probably for different reasons ) became less popular . |
| 8 | This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it . |
| 9 | And then he would say the Kingdom of of Heaven , you may or may not know what that is depending |
| 10 | We do not know what that ‘ life ’ is . |
| 11 | Not only do we not know what these units should be ( e.g. phones , diphones , syllables , etc ) , there are few if any acoustic cues to the boundaries between such units . |
| 12 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 13 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
| 14 | An enterprise director can not do what he considers best for society since , without the market 's signals , he can not know what this is . |
| 15 | Peter did not know what this dream meant . |
| 16 | He did not know what this was , but most tyre fitters were now part of it . |
| 17 | It would not matter what any inhabitant of Nunes told the police about Mary , for she had departed soon after that . |
| 18 | ( ‘ French science in its grandest fashion ’ , remarked Watson later , adding that the audience should not believe what some ‘ worse than third-rate authors ’ had written elsewhere . ) |
| 19 | In fact I do not understand what all the fuss is about . ’ |
| 20 | It no longer functioned as a club ; members could not understand what all the others were up to , and were aware that the interests of physicists and of biologists might be opposed . |
| 21 | Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’ |
| 22 | She told me , just as did you a moment ago , about being put to bed and the sprinkling of holy water — but I could still not see what all the fuss was about ! |
| 23 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 24 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 25 | The officers could not guess what these things were , but they were , of course , my two pocket knives and my watch . |
| 26 | Yet the fact that their competition did not reverse what all scholars agree to be a distinct , if modest , improvement in all but the environmental conditions of the working classes suggests the scale and impetus of economic expansion . |
| 27 | Mimi did not appreciate what this meant to him and sent them away , but Jack went downstairs looking for them and signed . |
| 28 | An entry in the charges register disclosed that it was subject to restrictive covenants imposed by a deed of 1883 but did not reveal what those covenants were , because on first registration neither the deed nor a copy or abstract of it had been produced . |
| 29 | I do not care what any of you do any more . |
| 30 | Now , if we are talking about Community Health Services , let's just examine what those words actually mean . |