Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] what [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane wondered what attack the original inhabitants had been expecting . |
| 2 | Any move in this direction should be resisted because it is vital as part of the monitoring process to see what impact the single market is having on our national economy . |
| 3 | FRANK FRAZER assesses what impact the Budget changes are likely to have on the North Sea 's oil industry |
| 4 | Neither Polybius nor Posidonius realized what superiority the Roman leaders acquired by the mere fact of being able to speak Greek , and to think in Greek , while the Greek leaders needed interpreters to understand Latin . |
| 5 | Alternatively , a single set of arithmetic instructions can be provided , and a processor mode register specifies what format the operands can be expected to be in . |
| 6 | The choice of this class of spaces determines what state the universe is in . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ONE of our bar staff recently came into the kitchen to ask if she could look in the soup kettle to see what colour the soup was . |
| 9 | The main criticism of transcendent philosophies is that though the ideas are beautiful and those who live by their precepts can be happy , yet men ask what relevance the philosophies have for our modern world of materialism where we must make progress and raise humanity out of starvation and ignorance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 15 | 4 Check that a medical discharge note explaining what operation the patient has had is sent to the General Practitioner . |
| 16 | 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 . |