Example sentences of "[verb] what [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act . |
| 2 | Now , both my son and I are currently non-musicians who are keen to learn , but we do n't know what effect the three knobs and the sliding lever have on the front of the instrument . |
| 3 | We also had to wait and see what effect the anti-male injection had . |
| 4 | Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages . |
| 5 | Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages . |
| 6 | Howard thought for a few moments and then said , ‘ I think I know what time the next plane leaves for London . ’ |
| 7 | He would then acknowledge that there was no law , and he would have no further concern for consistency with the past ; he would proceed to make new law by asking what law the present legislature would make or what the people want or what would be in the community 's best interests for the future . |
| 8 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
| 9 | ‘ This spectacular discovery should once and for all prove what shape the original Globe was , ’ Martin Clout , the theatre architecture historian , said . |
| 10 | It would then be possible to see what progress the Welsh Office and its various agencies are making towards the attainment of common goals . |
| 11 | It is the task of the sociologist to understand all this , to find out what has been done already in this field , to see what light the general background of religious and familial studies can shed on this particular social act , and to formulate original ideas in a more explicitly sociological fashion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the Manchester United manager refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 16 | But he refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 17 | This sketch may serve to show what obstacles the prosecuting authorities have experienced in bringing the B.M.F.L. case to trial , and how hard it is to predict when the trial will eventually occur , and what form it will then take . |
| 18 | The following table of classifications of errors from test recognition data shows that it is impossible to tell what type the original error was . |
| 19 | Jane wondered what attack the original inhabitants had been expecting . |
| 20 | But if he has to do it all over again , there are likely to be two main changes : a tougher approach from the start and a campaign team which knows what time the Nine O'Clock News starts . |