Example sentences of "[vb -s] what the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring . |
| 2 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 3 | Erm which basically says what the main issues throughout the year were . |
| 4 | Fiat has improved equipment levels across the board and a 1.1 Uno now casts what the 1-litre used to cost . |
| 5 | You know things like uppermost in people 's minds , I do n't know whether I suppose this question of fees might still be , I do n't know , it depends what the national executive say , but I mean I think it 's those issues and the fact we can respond quickly is , will be an advantage . |
| 6 | Any theory of sentence production , then , will be a theory which describes what the constructive processes are which , when applied to some thought which a speaker wishes to convey to someone else , result in the formulation and production of an appropriate sentence . |
| 7 | I find this emphasis generally correct in that it describes what the anorexic girl believes to lie in store for her as a woman : a passive role , a position of helplessness , a loss of self . |
| 8 | ‘ It shows what the Conservative Party is really about , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But today The Daily Mirror reveals what the Nineties teenager really thinks about making love . |
| 10 | Community Care investigates what the fierce financial arguments really mean on the ground |
| 11 | There 's been a lot of research which shows that when two people relax and feel comfortable together , their body language reflects what the other person is doing . |
| 12 | In his statement on public expenditure — in part , this refutes what the hon. Member for Fife , Central said — my right hon. Friend the Chancellor announced increased programmes in a number of Departments which will provide substantial work for the industry . |
| 13 | Rather than rather than having a sort of under the counter scenario where er material considerations you know will be considered when it when it 's a separate planning application comes in there are there an ack there is an acknowledgement or a framework which is in a formal local plan which which identifies what the main considerations will be . |
| 14 | He asks what the minimum necessary physical conditions are , what is the minimum amount of design work that a very lazy Creator would have to do , in order to see to it that the universe and , later , elephants and other complex things , would one day come into existence . |
| 15 | You will get the lazy child who copies what the next child is doing and these copiers must be helped to think for themselves . |
| 16 | The declaration , as its name implies , only declares what the legal position of the parties is ; it does not change their legal position or rights . |
| 17 | It also , of course , indicates what the coherent structures are like . |
| 18 | that nobody understands what the other person 's role is |
| 19 | Think , for example , about Scottish dancing , which one comes to understand as one learns what the right steps are . |
| 20 | It does what the Tory ladies ca n't do , which is to name women 's fear of men . |
| 21 | But that really wo n't last long much after the erm , well we do n't know , I er , nobody really knows , I mean , British Aerospace has fragmented into all of these property groups and Rover and everybody 's got fingers in the pie and we 're not , we 're sort of caught half way between short-term aims to make a quick profit from trying to get Shell in you know and that sort of thing , but I mean , we just need to talk about , nobody really knows what the long-term policy of the main British Aerospace Board is . |
| 22 | God knows what the two of them are up to together . ’ |
| 23 | What is needed is one named individual who is responsible for assessing that person 's total needs , deciding who should do what , coordinating the efforts of the various health professionals and for ensuring that , from the ‘ consumer 's ’ point of view , the various services are integrated and one hand knows what the other hand is doing . |
| 24 | He , Aragorn and Théoden also state proverbs about freshness , with respectively ‘ Rede oft is found at the rising of the sun ’ , ‘ None knows what the new day shall bring him ’ , and ‘ In the morning counsels are best … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 26 | David Walton , 40 , who received the aircraft today from Air Commodore David Hurrell , said : ‘ The likelihood of the aircraft taking to the sky again is fairly remote but it will be preserved in its current condition and who knows what the long term future holds . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think anyone knows what the immediate future holds at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | No one knows what the real debts are ( who really owes Bankers Trust their £60m , for instance ? ) , no one knows what the pension fund 's real deficit or obligations are and no one can predict how expensive the inevitable legislation will be . |
| 29 | Every weekend now , tens of thousands , perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are taking tablets containing unknown substances , and God alone knows what the real long-term consequences of that are likely to be . |
| 30 | Who knows what the next generation will do ? |