Example sentences of "[vb infin] [Wh det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 2 | The researcher can then produce a brief for the creative team which should include what the status of the product is seen to be , who their consumers are , what the advertising is supposed to be doing and a whole host of other basic data . |
| 3 | Can you describe what the Higgs boson is — and why you would like to find it — on single sheet of paper ? |
| 4 | Regular sums of hard currency were put at his disposal so that he or his aides could buy whatever the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii wished . |
| 5 | Going back to the medical analogy , no matter what the atmosphere , if you are a strong , healthy patient you will survive whatever the environment throws at you . |
| 6 | If your organisation is a " high tech " company and works in areas such as microbiology or electronics it will be useful to have a trained scientist who can translate what the company is doing into terms which most people can understand . |
| 7 | you know , you do n't know what the qualities gon na be like , it 's alright getting one for fifty quid |
| 8 | ‘ Because it is so rare , we do n't really know what the outlook is , so we have to look on the bright side , ’ said Mrs Horby . |
| 9 | … You do n't know what the higher-ups are doing . |
| 10 | Do you know what the reading was ? |
| 11 | ‘ Do you know what the problem is really , Andy ? ’ she asked , making her voice as sweet and low as she could . |
| 12 | the man and a wife you 'd never know what the problem was because the relationships that will be private to them . |
| 13 | I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses . |
| 14 | So you 'll know what the others have already said |
| 15 | If there were only a few , each could know what the others were doing and all would be aware of being watched . |
| 16 | I have n't , no I did n't , I , I do n't know what the prices would be anyway . |
| 17 | Like on this one , you did n't know what the resistance was exactly , but you worked it out , well it 's going to be less than , your first thought was add it together of course . |
| 18 | I do not know what the Anglo-Saxons called a rabbit , a candidate for description , I should have thought . |
| 19 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 20 | ‘ While you 're doing that , ’ said Nikos , ‘ think about this one : Andrus does n't know what the money is being used for . ’ |
| 21 | They are concerned that agency staff and new staff who do n't know what the women have achieved will undermine progress , or even reverse it , by underestimating their capabilities . |
| 22 | If you do n't know what the system is required to do ; you do n't know anything . |
| 23 | The intending patient must know what the Centre was about , the challenges that would be met , the changes to one 's life that might well be necessary . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know what the position is , ’ Lendl said disdainfully . |
| 25 | Can you please let me know what the position is with regard to order number 026 that I placed with you for the above tape to run it on VAX 3500 running ULTRIX , at either 6250 or 1600 bpi ? ( ordered on 12 May ) |
| 26 | and erm I do n't know what the idea really was , I think it was possibly so that erm , that people concerned with the Committee Meetings could erm sort themselves out and |
| 27 | I do n't quite know what the idea of the visit was , but the French Canadians had a similar one — anyway , everyone sold gold bricks to one another like mad . |
| 28 | The only thing that I would ask everybody in Oxfordshire is to write to our M P's here because er yes it 's true that I do n't know what the returns are from last night 's voting , but I do know that er the only local MP that I can see on the voting on the last occasion was John Patten , here in Abingdon , and he voted no . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know what the Prince will think of these bare walls ’ , Ann East said to her room-mates . |
| 30 | We do n't know what the capacity is gon na be needed in the future . |