Example sentences of "[verb] what the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mr Ken Currie of the Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell will then describe what the rich world could do to mitigate the effects . |
| 4 | Well , we need to know what the alternative point of view to our own is . |
| 5 | So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that . |
| 6 | Federal Judge , Harold Green , ordered the immediate release of the transcript , saying the public has a right to know what the former president said . |
| 7 | I am sure that the House would be interested to know what the Labour party 's industrial policy is for the motor industry . |
| 8 | Once more a terrible curiosity overcame him , to know what the third girl looked like . |
| 9 | For example , a speaker might provide a summary for someone who wished to know what the intended relevance of the lecture was but who was only familiar with the subject at an elementary level . |
| 10 | ‘ Operations in the national interest ’ was a favourite phrase ; good and sharp , and carrying the implication that if you needed to know what the national interest was , you did not deserve to be told . |
| 11 | If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer . |
| 12 | They also need to know what the local currency is , the exchange rate and the rate of inflation . |
| 13 | Now , the other thing that I mentioned yesterday , or we mentioned yesterday , was that local radio is opportunity for practice in various ways , and most local radio in most forms , and we will have to know what the local knowledge is here , do welcome people who are sufficiently interested to contribute stories , information , angles for their programmes . |
| 14 | But if we wish to do something about these close and secretive ties between the executive , the military and industry , we need to know what the driving force of this development is . |
| 15 | Visitors to Buckingham are hard pressed to guess what the gothic style building in the town 's centre once was . |
| 16 | It is clearly important to establish what the earliest plan of a village was , since there have often been many post-medieval changes . |
| 17 | ‘ You are saying that if it were possible to remove a fertilized egg cell from a woman after she had conceived , you could examine it and say what the resulting child would be like ? ’ |
| 18 | At Cabinet on the Wednesday morning the Chancellor reported what the Foreign Secretary ( still confined to his house ) proposed to say . |
| 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 | ‘ We do n't even know what the bloody thing looks like , ’ Julie added . |
| 27 | ‘ I doubt if they would know what the bloody hell you were talking about . |
| 28 | Do you know what the traditional name for them is ? |
| 29 | What was , does anybody know what the first term was ? |
| 30 | Whichever side of the transaction you represent , as soon as you 've dispatched or received replies to requisitions ( you ca n't do so before , because you wo n't know what the other side wants or is able to give on completion ) , complete the three agendas " before completion " , " completion " and " after completion " . |