Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [noun] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Without any direct contact , it 's difficult to know what state the negotiations are in .
2 For example , it is important to know what properties an estimator or test statistic , which is known to have good properties if we happen to have chosen the correct model , will have for models with particular types of mis-specification .
3 But Labour 's deputy leader of the council , Alan Dean , said it was impossible to know what effect the level of government finance , pay settlements and competitive tendering would have on the council 's ability to guarantee jobs .
4 If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act .
5 She also needs to know what stage the host birds have reached in their own nesting cycle because the timing of her laying can be crucial .
6 Once the decision has been made to accept an invitation from the media you will need to know what form the programme is to take .
7 and so on , to establish what media the ads were in , what they said , and similar questions .
8 To discover what difference the action project made ( that is , whether it delayed or prevented admission to an institution ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved the physical , emotional or mental well-being of dementia sufferers or their carers ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved family relationships ; whether it increased , decreased or had no effect on people 's receipt of statutory or other voluntary services ) .
9 The aim of the research is to discover what impact the HSW Act 1974 and the SRSC Regs 1977 have had on occupational health and safety in the print industry and to what extent the Robens philosophy has been relevant to joint regulation .
10 One is actually led to wonder what effect a knowledge of the Lorenz system , at an earlier stage , would have had on Smale 's development of these important ideas .
11 It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them .
12 Although free of the horrors of Bosnia it 's difficult to imagine what nightmares the refugees endure in the security of their makeshift British accommodation .
13 It went on to discuss what form the opinion should take , including where a reservation of opinion would be required .
14 Thank you for your recent letter , it is always useful for me to hear what use the publications that I have sent out were put to .
15 Given a string it is necessary to determine what morphemes the string consists of ( e.g. the string boys comprises the morphemes boy and +s ) .
16 Instead of a sliding scale to determine what income a single parent in work can keep without losing benefit , a standard £15 cut-off point has been introduced .
17 It is time now to consider what contribution a rights-based theory might be able to make in developing such a moral position , and how that position might relate to a revised , more radical form of democratic theory .
18 It is not easy to appraise what success the Land Commission achieved .
19 There are too many unknown quantities in the complex equation regarding number of bodies , quantity of fuel , rate of woodland regeneration and time , to be able to calculate what impact the presence of a large cremation cemetery would have had on the landscape .
20 As the brewers do not have to comply with the main measure of the orders until 1 November 1992 , it is too soon to judge what impact the orders will have on prices .
21 It was rarely possible to unambiguously identify incorrect memories , where descriptions were produced which did not clearly correspond to any junction on the video there was usually no way to decide what event the description represented an incorrect memory for .
22 Furthermore , it is not for the duty-bearer to decide what action the duty requires ; some other ( superior ) body , will decide exactly what the body has to do .
23 The model is meant to describe what operations the speaker performs upon each level of representation to generate the next level .
24 Ms Williams , who is a captain in the US Army Reserve and was separated from her own family during the conflict , asked 45 mothers and 61 children to describe what impact the hostilities had on them .
25 The practical utility of the rule depends to some extent upon the means that the courts are entitled to employ in order to ascertain what mischief the Act was intended to remedy .
26 Lecturers will now come to me to check what modules the students are doing with other staff , and we 're taking much more of a team approach .
27 Maybe when he had gone — his was a powerful enough presence out here ; she did n't care to think what effect the restricting confines of the cabin might have if he should follow her .
28 They were free to look over the top of the box to see what size the bricks really were , and they were quite aware that their own view was distorted because one of the portholes contained a magnifying lens .
29 Naas trainer Arthur Moore and Yorkshire-based Jimmy FitzGerald entered their star novice chasers to see what chance the handicapper would give them against the established performers in next month 's £32,000-added showpiece .
30 It would then be possible to see what progress the Welsh Office and its various agencies are making towards the attainment of common goals .
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