Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Council as I 'm aware was not actually consulted on these particular applications , and therefore I 'm not really in a position to be able to comment as what the County Council 's position . |
| 2 | ‘ Everything will be happening legally so kids wo n't have to worry about what the police are going to stop them doing on the M25 or wherever . |
| 3 | ( And then when they 're older , a mother tends to worry about what the reason for |
| 4 | They had no need to worry about what the National Consumer Council called ‘ manageable commitment ’ , in which the customer operated a system of precisely monitored deferred payment , only ‘ overcommitment ’ and ‘ unmanageable commitment ’ . |
| 5 | If we are ever to pass through what a shrewd American has named the ‘ moronic inferno ’ into what I call ‘ the oxyinoronic paradiso ’ , then responses from a deeper level are required . |
| 6 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 7 | Our natural tendency to concentrate on what the program does and what appears on the screen can easily leave the class in the role of passive spectators , with exercises added almost as an afterthought . |
| 8 | Both the questionnaires and the structured interviews tend to concentrate on what the customer likes and dislikes , rather than why . |
| 9 | And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say . |
| 10 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |
| 11 | My plan is to consider inter-relations between welfare improvement and the safeguarding of the environment , but first I want to talk about what the term ‘ welfare ’ means , and how we can use it in a scientific way . |
| 12 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 13 | Given these kinds of powers , benefits and resources , it is interesting to speculate upon what the appropriate local authorities might have done during this period . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the B–17 at Duxford stands daily inviting visitors to reflect on what a 30 mission combat tour entailed for the men of the Mighty Eighth . |
| 15 | When the boy told him how the police had made the arrests , the Prince called the division commander , whose men had arrested the twenty-four , to listen to what the boy had to say . |
| 16 | From the Reagan administration 's first decision to listen to what the Israelis were saying , the Iran-contra affair had found its firm foundation in political and diplomatic illusion . |
| 17 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 18 | With that side of his face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing . |
| 19 | Once men were released from trying to defend them as scientific documents they were able to listen to what the text was actually saying . |
| 20 | It is important to democracy that government should be not merely ready , but obliged , to listen to what the people ( in all its multiplicity ) has to say . |
| 21 | The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed . |
| 22 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 23 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 24 | Fatialofa is L'Aquila 's ‘ foreign player ’ but on the other side of the scrum there is a South African of Italian descent , Gerardo Lepera , who does not count as a foreign player and has the right to play as what the Italians call an oriundi . |
| 25 | But it 's also the very idea of someone being judged ‘ criminal' ’ or ‘ insane' ’ because they 're unable to fit into what a basically corrupt society considers ‘ social' ’ or ‘ ‘ sociable' ’ . ' |
| 26 | In the early years there is extensive leisure devoted to play in which the basic manipulative and social skills are developed . |
| 27 | It is quite common in talking about teaching to focus on what the teacher does and to forget the effect this may have on the learner . |
| 28 | ‘ We have to focus on what the customer actually wants . |
| 29 | It is worthwhile to look at what a report should achieve before discussing its content . |
| 30 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |