Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay has anyone had a think about what they want to do ? |
| 2 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 3 | But er at , prior to the fire there was , there was a division between what they called the , the catapult shop , er the machine shop and the fitting shop . |
| 4 | She was so transparent that there seemed nothing but clear skin between what she felt and what she said . |
| 5 | The client , who generally accepted the traditional process , also accepted the form of contract for what it was : a formal document encapsulating the procedures which seemed to work well and produced few disputes . |
| 6 | ‘ The business case for what we are doing is obvious , ’ says Hume , calculating that it costs an average of between £10,000 and £15,000 to recruit and train a replacement for every female member of staff who leaves . |
| 7 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 8 | If you 're interested in standing for any of those or wan na put someone forward to stand for one of those , come to the elections in room six two three , six two four Friday the twenty sixth at two fifteen twenty third , I 'm sorry , at two fifteen and er not only will you get all the , the general info about what I 've done so far this year , what I intend to do , what next year 's budget 's going to be etcetera , that 's when those elections are actually held . |
| 9 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 10 | ‘ Because , as it turns out , you 've developed the intelligence I expected of you , and I suppose there 's some excuse for what you were at nineteen . |
| 11 | The rest of the speech is saying that since the whole argument must have no excuse for what he is at the moment , it must be looked at like this : that when he becomes greater , he will become very dangerous to Rome : like a serpent still in the egg , which , when hatched , will become deadly . |
| 12 | And here … sign this blank cheque for what you owe . |
| 13 | But beneath his flippancy was a real sympathy for what we were trying to do and an appreciation of the common aims we shared for work in the schools . |
| 14 | In fact the latest development is that they do n't even do that by picking up a telephone , the message is teleprinted on , onto a message pad there , and when they run in they pull off this pad , and there 's the whole text for what they 've got to do , where they 've got to go , and so on . |
| 15 | Old Mother Thames will be keeping mum about what she has in store for them … until the big day in April . |
| 16 | Holding very little in the way of stocks and inventory and relying on components suppliers to supply these ‘ just in time ’ for use in production could not operate where supply was liable to frequent bottlenecks , disrup-tion or downright ‘ guileful ’ dispositions to milk positions of strategic contingency for what they are worth . |
| 17 | He wanted to know whether they would be prepared to take payment for what they produced after everyone else had taken a cut . |
| 18 | Indeed , the scope of s2(2) is extensive in this respect : ( 2 ) A person who , not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment , in the course of any trade or business and with a view to obtaining any payment for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent as aforesaid ( a ) threatens to bring any legal proceedings ; or ( b ) places or causes to be placed the name of any person on a list of defaulters or debtors or threatens to do so ; or ( c ) invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure or threatens to do so , shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [ level 5 on the standard scale ] . |
| 19 | The whole first part provides a framework for what we have just described as a level-of-analysis problem with three layers and two dimensions . |
| 20 | Only the hull mounted cellular disrupter was flexible enough in its calibration response for what he had in mind . |
| 21 | This ‘ raw material ’ is formed through an interaction between what we are born with and what we live through , or as James Michener puts it : ‘ Heredity establishes the perimeters of what we can accomplish ; environment determines whether we acquire the character to reach those perimeters ’ ( 1976 , p.130 ) . |
| 22 | Some misunderstanding exists at present about what it is , and what it is not , and of the processes that can encourage or suppress it . |
| 23 | Employee share ownership trusts are a relatively small part of the Government 's provision of tax relief for employee share ownership , but it would be very nice to hear the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , East ( Mr. Brown ) express on behalf of the Labour Front Bench wholehearted enthusiasm for what we believe in , which is giving employees in companies real ownership of the companies that they work for . |
| 24 | Within a very short time several of those who were disappointed at his election swung over to gratitude for his coming and enthusiasm for what he did to the faculty . |
| 25 | Professor Camille has thoroughly enjoyed himself in looking at such images , and he skilfully shares with us his delight and enthusiasm for what he has found . |
| 26 | She had a great empathy with animals and vast enthusiasm for what she did . |
| 27 | These will fade away and I will find joy and enthusiasm for what I do . |
| 28 | Er I mean I , I mean have we really thought this through because er if we 're an anticipating having hundred , hundred and fifty people here which I suppose is of course about what we would hope for , the response that NUPE er as you know they would need to actually achieve the yes vote , I mean we need this sort of room full er would n't it not be more sensible to split up between co or not , would it not be normal for the tutor to expect the group to split up to address specific areas like , I do n't know , Labour Party membership , erm finance , I do n't know , whatever |
| 29 | I 'll just have a look through what you 've been doing |
| 30 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |