Example sentences of "[subord] [Wh det] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One formed the impression that its editor gave his readers what he thought they ought to read rather than what they might want or enjoy . |
| 2 | But the next exam on the educational ladder lays emphasis on what people know , rather than what they can do , and is seen primarily as a passport to university entry . |
| 3 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 4 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 5 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 6 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 7 | But when the list of prescribed core and other foundation subjects was scrutinised , along with the suggested allocations of curricular time spelled out in the consultation document , many teachers wondered whether what they would be getting would not be a ‘ straitjacket ’ after all . |
| 8 | Guideline 21 : Tell children what they should do , as well as what they ca n't do . |
| 9 | Was I perhaps too busy noticing things that Dr Starkie was missing ( though what they might have been I ca n't for the moment think ) ? |