Example sentences of "[vb infin] what [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not guarantee what the resulting shade will be , though — you build up depth with subsequent layers — and you can get tell-tale streaking if you are not very careful with application . |
| 2 | Mr Ken Currie of the Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell will then describe what the rich world could do to mitigate the effects . |
| 3 | Anyone who has ever participated in a voluntary organisation , youth work or parents ' association will know what a central place is taken by jumble sales and selling raffle tickets ( see Table 9.1 ) . |
| 4 | You would n't know what a great block that was by Tommy . |
| 5 | Do n't know what a rotten life their daughter will have . ’ |
| 6 | Words such as Menuetto and Allegretto can mean a variety of things ; it is often up to context alone to let us know what a specific set of words is telling us . |
| 7 | You will then know what a healthy weight-loss diet is for you and be able to follow this for a further two weeks , or longer if necessary . |
| 8 | Did you know what a nasty business your husband 's got himself into ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you know what a naval battle is ? ’ asked the French minister , Maurepas . |
| 10 | The problem is that without measuring the heights , and their frequency , of all adult males we will not know what a representative sample would be . |
| 11 | You do n't know what a normal week is now do you ? |
| 12 | If she does n't know what a good thing you are , I feel sorry for her . |
| 13 | You do n't know what a hobbing iron is do you ? |
| 14 | One problem is that we do not necessarily know what a particular wavefunction looks like , and it is here that the LCAO approach to the construction of molecular orbitals is very useful . |
| 15 | Do n't we know what a cheeky baba-ba you are ! |
| 16 | ‘ We did not even know what a computer-controlled lathe was before we started , ’ she said . |
| 17 | If you 've ever pushed a bicycle with a flat tyre you 'll know what a slow and awkward job it is . |
| 18 | Anyone who saw her sketchbook exhibition will know what a fine display these made alongside her paintings . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not know what the final outcome will be and would stress that there is no obvious solution at this point , but at least we now have adequate time to look at all the alternatives . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 21 | Accordingly , one is constrained in the way which one can refer to the preceding paragraph in the printed document — because one does not know what the preceding paragraph will be . |
| 22 | It claims to be ahead of schedule with NT-on-Alpha , a relatively meaningless phrase since we do n't know what the real schedule is . |
| 23 | One of the bosses announced : " We do n't know what the real trade figures are going to be . |
| 24 | By the end of this week we shall know what the Labour Party no longer stands for , such as unilateral nuclear disarmament and full-scale nationalisation ; but what , in essence , does it stand for ? |
| 25 | I do not know what the Labour party is so proud of , because under the previous Labour Government manufacturing output fell by 2 per cent . |
| 26 | ‘ I doubt if they would know what the bloody hell you were talking about . |
| 27 | ‘ We do n't even know what the bloody thing looks like , ’ Julie added . |
| 28 | Do you know what the traditional name for them is ? |
| 29 | ( Not , by the way , that I have my heart particularly set on a boy but , having grown up with only brothers , I do n't quite know what the female clichés look like . ) |
| 30 | Geoffrey Robertson , QC for Mr Henderson , told the judge after the acquittals : ‘ The prosecution was brought by one hand of the Government which did not know what the other hand was doing . ’ |