Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1953 the state Department told the British that the Shah wanted to know what the British expected of him . |
| 2 | We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense . |
| 3 | I do not know what the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) heard , but I distinctly heard the Foreign Secretary answer yes on several occasions . |
| 4 | Consequently there are no cases in our books which show what the appropriate determinate sentence is specifically for that offence . |
| 5 | Matthew stumbled a bit on this question , trying to remember what the prevailing feminist attitudes were towards such things as parenting and families . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend the leader of the Labour party has never said what the right hon. Gentleman has suggested — and the right hon. Gentleman knows that that is the case . |
| 7 | Rather than procrastinating with shadow trusts , why does he not do what the incoming Labour Government will do and abandon the ill-conceived , ill-considered , useless and unwanted ideas about trust hospitals ? |
| 8 | All this is programmatic until we have shown what the crucial sceptical argument is . |
| 9 | ‘ I left lecturing to try and see what the big wide world had to offer , but things never worked out . |
| 10 | look what the fucking Vietnamese did too the Americans and the Americans went in their heavier numbers and more concentration |
| 11 | And before you leave us I want you all to hear what the Senior Medical Officer said to me half an hour ago . |
| 12 | My fantasies were never about specific sexual activities , they were always on the level of some emotional transcendence — someone would come along and embrace me and that would be it ; I could n't really envisage what the nitty gritty practical things were . |
| 13 | DesignaKnit has a very helpful function which lets you decide what the maximum allowable float length ( in stitches ) can be . |
| 14 | I am not precisely sure that I know what the right hon. Gentleman had in mind on sentencing policy , but I am happy to engage in exchanges outside . |
| 15 | Equally , although a volunteer can not give out money , they know what the local social services and charities have available . |
| 16 | I note what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says about investment . |
| 17 | Community Care investigates what the fierce financial arguments really mean on the ground |
| 18 | The fact that the disturbing factors may be complex , and that the body tends to limit the symptoms of disease to the physical plane if at all possible , can make it difficult to determine what the basic underlying imbalance is . |
| 19 | Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills . |
| 20 | We had intended to ask participants in our workshop to consider what the major constructive influences on their own teaching had been , whether training at college , advice from colleagues , intuitions from pupils or their own previous experience as learners . |
| 21 | I ask what the charming little wooden shed down the track is for — tools and things ? |
| 22 | On a sober note , I should also like to echo what the right hon. Member for Worcester said about Alick Buchanan-Smith . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But then she remembered what the wise old turtle had told her about putting herself in the dog 's place , and doing what she would want to have done to her . |
| 25 | No other form of industrial organisation can , of its nature , do what the industrial co-operative form does . |
| 26 | This proposition was also rejected by the revolutionary junta in Madrid , who were therefore obliged to continue their efforts to find someone willing to wear what the English Foreign Minister had described as ‘ that crown of thorns ’ . |
| 27 | I endorse what the right hon. Gentleman said about the progress that has been made so far . |
| 28 | On 30 January I took part in the Prime Minister 's discussions with President Yeltsin , following which the British-Russian joint declaration and an agreement on consular posts were signed . |
| 29 | owing to the difficulty of forecasting [ … ] the less possible , and indeed , the less desirable it is for the person purchasing to specify what the other contracting party is expected to do [ … |
| 30 | The Algerian ambassador to Iran was recalled on Jan. 18 , following what the Algerian Foreign Ministry claimed were unacceptable attacks by the official Iranian media which could harm " the sovereignty and unity " of the Algerian people . |