Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 2 | They know little about what they are being asked to invest in , but they do believe that the Government 's determination to make the privatisation succeed will ensure that the water authorities are presented as a steal . |
| 3 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 4 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 5 | Can I ask you Professor Lock to say a little about what you consider the housing implications of such a policy might be ? |
| 6 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 7 | It was that through which he must pass next . |
| 8 | The adjective beautiful , for example , denotes a quality which can be found in many different objects and therefore does not by itself indicate the nature of that about which it is said . |
| 9 | a nap is that about what you wanted ? |
| 10 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 11 | This means the time they spend in the public sector is often much less than that for which they are contracted . |
| 12 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
| 13 | I have really nothing else to say , except to draw attention to the inherently contradictory nature of that for which you appear to be asking . |
| 14 | Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence . |
| 15 | Note , too , that this size is marginally smaller than that for which you were asked to quote . |
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| 17 | These principles are expressed as follows : ( 13 ) The co-operative principle make your contribution such as is required , at the stage at which it occurs , by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged ( 14 ) The maxim of Quality try to make your contribution one that is true , specifically : ( i ) do not say what you believe to be false ( ii ) do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence ( 15 ) The maxim of Quantity ( i ) make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange ( ii ) do not make your contribution more informative than is required ( 16 ) The maxim of Relevance make your contributions relevant ( 17 ) The maxim of Manner be perspicuous , and specifically : ( i ) avoid obscurity ( ii ) avoid ambiguity ( iii ) be brief ( iv ) be orderly In short , these maxims specify what participants have to do in order to converse in a maximally efficient , rational , co-operative way : they should speak sincerely , relevantly and clearly , while providing sufficient information . |
| 18 | When Mr. Millan was Secretary of State for Scotland he administered them in exactly the same way as that for which he criticises us . |
| 19 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 20 | It has to be said that it is an austere document which , although well designed and printed , offers little more than that for which it was intended . |
| 21 | Where the process is used for some purpose other than that for which it is intended , the distinction between an error of judgment and an abuse of process may be rather fine . |
| 22 | Into this imaginary world of people unable to learn from their market experience let us now introduce a group of outsiders who are themselves neither would-by sellers nor would-be buyers , but who are able to perceive opportunities for entrepreneurial profits ; that is , they are able to see where a good can be sold at a price higher than that for which it can be bought . |
| 23 | I mean this is I er er there , there is a , a fundamental problem here I think th that i if you do the calculations in terms of how many calories per amount of grain it does seem that , that for what we regard as being an adequate diet and then again it 's a diet which is not being supplemented by meat okay there will be some vegetables but basically it 's grain , you , you do need somewhere between six and seven hundred . |
| 24 | They could turn out that for what it 'd cost us to tile them ! |
| 25 | How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ? |
| 26 | It may be more honest to face this for what it is . |
| 27 | He recognises this for what it is — solid confirmation of the Government 's determination to invest in the defence of our country . |
| 28 | ‘ And I 'll take this for what I 'm owed , ’ I said , and picked up the cloth of papers . |
| 29 | Erm and that is not half as what it was last year . |
| 30 | put erm all this about what you think force is |