Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors to Buckingham are hard pressed to guess what the gothic style building in the town 's centre once was . |
| 2 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 3 | But it does , by this convention , proclaim itself to be a book of a special kind , one designed to proclaim what the faithful believe about Christ , not necessarily a book which is straight narrative history in the modern mode . |
| 4 | The headmaster had a large store of quotations designed to show what a nice , easygoing bloke Muhammad was . |
| 5 | Her mother had not noticed the incident and only turned to see what the matter was when Joyce began to scream . |
| 6 | This government have to be made to realize what a cruel blow it has struck on the very weakest sections of the community , the unemployed and the five and half million pensioners living in poverty . |
| 7 | In Brutus v. Cozens , the House declined to attempt to define what is meant by insulting , and later courts have not sought to do what the House would not , although they have sought to give guidance as to what the term might mean . |
| 8 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
| 9 | Then the letter containing the promise declared on is said to specify what the assistance would be , namely , £150 per annum during the uncle 's life , and until the plaintiffs professional income should be acknowledged by him to exceed 600 guineas ; and a further averment , that the plaintiff , relying upon his promise , without any revocation on the part of the uncle , did marry Ellen Nicholl . |
| 10 | Test the kitchen cold tap fully opened to see what the flow and pressure is like . |
| 11 | A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun . |
| 12 | With some pottery , chemical analysis can also be used to discover what the pottery vessel may have once contained or have been used for . |
| 13 | You have n't got one y know , quite cheap just mats that they they ah I 've got forgotten what the word is for it they make the mouse improves the performance of the mouse see |
| 14 | You 've got to know what the time |
| 15 | ‘ Well , he 's only got to do what a lot of older men do — marry a young girl and produce an heir himself . ’ |
| 16 | Now in order to do that , you 've really got to understand what a game is erm how you organise , for example , looking at the board , if it is a board game ; how you 're going to represent that in a program . |
| 17 | The campaign is needed to fight what the People 's Daily says is ‘ a struggle between socialist and capitalist ideologies ’ . |
| 18 | I feel that everything I have mentioned in this article is part of good mathematical teaching practice , e.g. that all young children should be allowed to formulate mathematical ideas in familiar language , that all children should be regarded as potential learners and that parents should be helped to understand what the school is trying to achieve . |
| 19 | This way of describing interviews can be used to consider what the control is exercised over , and where the types of interviews can most usefully be employed . |
| 20 | The aim here is not to encourage hauliers to do their own conveyancing , but to ensure they are better equipped to appreciate what the solicitor or other ‘ expert ’ is doing on their behalf . |
| 21 | An explanation in any mode will have a displaying function if it is produced to demonstrate what the speaker knows . |
| 22 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | You 've got to feel what the tyres and chassis are doing all the time . |
| 24 | It 's the members of the police committee at the end of the day that 've had endorsed what the chief constable had done , and it 's their councils that are gon na suffer . |
| 25 | But in Using a Model for Nursing ( Roper et al , 1983 ) , the third year student nurse contributing to the study in a surgical ward , commented that the model approach helped her to appreciate the need for planned discharge goals ; even when admitting the patient , she was alerted to consider what the patient required to know on discharge in order to resume her usual Activities of Living . |
| 26 | An arm of the law arrived the same day to take Sam away from him , and also demanded to see what the man called ‘ the place of lodging ’ . |
| 27 | Almost a hundred years later , following his visit to Kidderminster , George Whitfield told a friend , ‘ I was greatly refreshed to find what a sweet savour of good Mr. Baxter 's doctrine , works and discipline remain to this day ’ . |
| 28 | Most people in the circumstances would have refused to believe what the evidence told them . |
| 29 | TWO times World kick boxing champion , Billy Murray is set to attempt what no European exponent of the sport has accomplished by winning three World titles at three different weights . |
| 30 | TWO times World kick boxing champion , Billy Murray is set to attempt what no European exponent of the sport has accomplished by winning three World titles at three different weights . |