Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have only to look south of the border at some of the experiences of their former workmates within public sector bus operations to see what the alternative propositions might be . |
| 2 | I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ? |
| 3 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 4 | 4 Setting baselines ( 10 minutes to establish what the parents are to do ) |
| 5 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 6 | You have only to look through one or two stately homes to see what a great difference the architectural details — the cornices , mouldings , hardware on doors and windows , doors themselves — make to a room . |
| 7 | There is a determination displayed within the guidelines to assess what a student can do ; and the academic distinction between Traditional subjects has been virtually eliminated . |
| 8 | One energetic character asked if we minded waiting while he climbed another two hundred feet to see what the view over a nearby rise was like . |
| 9 | Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These people now face annual medical inspection for the rest of their lives to assess what the radiation may have bequeathed to them in terms of a legacy of cancer or birth defects . |
| 12 | I 've had four weeks to realize what a stupid bastard I 've been , ’ Sam said . |
| 13 | After much research , suppliers were able to produce viable alternatives to lead which the Society helped to promote , with informative booklets produced jointly with anglers ' organisations . |
| 14 | We might then be able to work back from lifestyle and abilities to predict what the brain of a particular species should be like ( Legg 1983 ) . |
| 15 | There was widespread international sympathy for the mujaheddin as opponents of Soviet invasion : but this obscured the internal , civil war , origins of the conflict and led too few observers to ask what the programme of the tribal insurgents was , not least with regard to women . |
| 16 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 17 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 18 | erm I then asked er additional questions to see what the up to the minute information was at that time . |
| 19 | ‘ We have institutional processes inhibiting the opportunities for farmers to provide what the consumer wants , ’ says the professor . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | He added that unless Environment Secretary Chritopher Patten gives the NCC the requisite powers and resources to do what the law requires , the Broads will be doomed . |
| 22 | Given their virtually unlimited powers to dictate what a dissenting group may or may not be allowed to do , there is a danger that police will prove less willing to negotiate arrangements with protest organisers , preferring to impose conditions as the law allows . |
| 23 | Such an ambitious programme , which could have at least some negative consequences in the member states , could be achieved only under the supervision of a supranational authority with the necessary powers to determine what the policies of the member states ought to be . |
| 24 | Certainly Tolkien 's own efforts to say what The Silmarillion was ‘ about ’ were never completely illuminating . |
| 25 | It concerned the toxic effects of atmospheric lead and was characterised by a series of comments like ‘ It 's claimed that even low levels of lead can cause brain damage ’ , ‘ It 's been difficult to get conclusive evidence ’ , ‘ There 's a whole lot of evidence ’ , ‘ Yes but there is conflicting evidence ’ , all delivered without any one of the four speakers actually providing figures to explain what the concern and disagreement was all about . |
| 26 | I have already accepted that the judges are the best persons to say what the judges ' tariff is , as Watkins L.J . |
| 27 | ‘ I understand the letter asks Whitehall civil servants to illustrate what a 2.5 per cent cut ( £6.3 billion ) and a 5 per cent cut ( £12 billion ) would involve for the current spending round which has now started . |
| 28 | The only recompe the only resource anyone has is to go to the courts , for the courts to decide what the law is at that present moment . |
| 29 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 30 | Get a book published — that is hard enough — or a TV play produced and it 's straight to the newspapers to see what the critics say . |