Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this , it is first necessary to see if it is possible to agree on what the crucial principles are that characterise both the original biological positivists and the proposed wider category . |
| 2 | Given these kinds of powers , benefits and resources , it is interesting to speculate upon what the appropriate local authorities might have done during this period . |
| 3 | Farm workers , too , could be persuaded to defer to the locally powerful if the latter were prepared to act in what the farm worker believed to be a legitimate manner . |
| 4 | Cos you 're actually supposed to think of what the message , the essential message you want to get across , and then work your illustration out accordingly . |
| 5 | What the actual or even likely or standard effects of his saying this would be on a hearer , himself included , has little to do with what a reasonable speaker means in saying something . |
| 6 | His methods however were mostly to do with the syntax and vocabulary and sounds and had little to do with what the languages meant . |
| 7 | In the case of secondment to industry , it is useful to look at what the school 's short- and medium-term goals are . |
| 8 | It is therefore conceptually useful to distinguish between what the mass media tell us to think about — this is signalled by the events they cover — and what specific attitudes or opinions we have to adopt towards those events , though clearly these distinctions may be difficult to uphold in practice . |
| 9 | But it will make you feel better able to cope with what the world is throwing at you and it will give you a better feeling about yourself . ’ |
| 10 | The County Council as I 'm aware was not actually consulted on these particular applications , and therefore I 'm not really in a position to be able to comment as what the County Council 's position . |
| 11 | And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say . |
| 12 | Once men were released from trying to defend them as scientific documents they were able to listen to what the text was actually saying . |
| 13 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 14 | But it 's also the very idea of someone being judged ‘ criminal' ’ or ‘ insane' ’ because they 're unable to fit into what a basically corrupt society considers ‘ social' ’ or ‘ ‘ sociable' ’ . ' |
| 15 | When the victim was an inoffensive law abiding citizen , therefore , or a constables who , by virtue of his training , is unlikely to respond to what the defendant was doing by committing a breach of the peace , there was little real likelihood of a breach of the peace , and no offence was committed , in spite of the defendant 's intolerably bullying behaviour . |
| 16 | In a later chapter , on the cult of the first edition , I shall have more to say on what a vital part the title-page can play . |
| 17 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 18 | While we can appreciate that Christian worship is joy , it is harder to believe in what the poet George Matheson called ‘ Joy that seekest me through pain ’ . |
| 19 | With closed questions it is easier to count the replies and perform statistical operations on them , but it is difficult to get at what the respondent really thinks about something . |
| 20 | Lawyers went on strike from Nov. 9 to protest at what the bar association said were the arbitrary arrests of four of its members in North-West Province . |
| 21 | It is worthwhile to look at what a report should achieve before discussing its content . |
| 22 | We have argued in favour of the tenet which underlies ( vii ) , namely that it is possible to distinguish between what the writer chooses to talk about , and how he chooses to talk about it . |