Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [Wh det] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The common denominator of this type of use is not therefore non-entailment but rather viewing knowledge of the referent denoted by the direct object of know as a condition for attributing what the infinitive denotes to this referent .
2 but then er somebody said do n't do that you 've got ta think what the value
3 So you 've got ta sell benefits you 've got ta know what the product can do for them , right you 've got to find out what they want from it I mean it might be security that 's the big problem
4 Under the scheme as it was originally cast , let alone before the Government began reducing both the numbers eligible and the value of the benefit paid , many low-income poll tax payers would have found themselves making a substantial contribution after receiving whatever the rebate to which they are entitled .
5 He seemed greatly recovered , and resigned to the idea of using what the church so obligingly had offered .
6 The court gave effect to this clause , stating that the parties should have considered the potential difficulties of using what the court called " a single alternative dispute resolution process " for all disputes under the contract before making their contract .
7 And finally Mr chairman on this point , we did in fact do some checking to see the sense of using what the county planning committee had recommended to the H er Highways and Transport Committee that they should regard the six five eight , A five nine one as the correct link to the A one .
8 In the absence of marketing and production systems capable of producing what the consumer wants , both have had to engage in a ‘ hard sell ’ of that range of rather standardized services actually on offer .
9 The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is .
10 Individuals have a right to some independence , and areas of choice in their style of living whatever the degree of their eventual infirmity .
11 Insufficient because it does not provide what law has to offer , which is first , an authoritative means of deciding what the rules to be applied are : second , an impartial method of applying those rules to particular circumstances , and third , a way of marking that the rules and resultant decisions are binding or non-optional on the parties .
12 The increasing reliance on managers ' reports as a means of deciding what the shops should carry infuriated Laura and complicated her ambivalent feelings towards her shop staff .
13 The ethics of bargaining are debatable ; there is scope for unjustifiable coercion ; and equal treatment as between applicants can be abandoned in favour of charging what the market will bear at any particular time .
14 In the context of immediate decisions such as doctors may be called upon to make , the concept of doing what the judge called ‘ preserving the prospect of an informed decision ’ is wholly inapposite .
15 v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’
16 And is there a relatively simple means of knowing what the transfer value is that you are entitled to ?
17 He had no way of knowing what the President thought .
18 Power trickles down the edifice with the effect that those who actually deliver the service , teachers and lecturers , are the least powerful in terms of determining what the service is about , how it performs , how it should develop .
19 She had a good view of the hospital entrance , so she started her private game of guessing what the people were .
20 Family doctors are trained in the art of discovering what the patient has really come to see them about .
21 Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them !
22 Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was .
23 In the legislature , the people are a check upon the nobility , and the nobility a check upon the people ; by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved : while the King is a check upon both , which preserves the executive power from any encroachments .
24 The second is the principle of integrity in adjudication : it asks those responsible for deciding what the law is to see and enforce it as coherent in that way .
25 It is worth investigating what the child eats for school lunch , or how many sweets are consumed at break-time , if school behaviour tends to be worse .
26 You do n't know what it 's like wondering what the hell he 's up to now and where he 's gone and when he 'll be back .
27 Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave .
28 It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do .
29 Where the statutory authority is merely permissive , with no clause imposing liability for nuisance , the authority is not liable for doing what the statute authorises , provided it is not negligent ; but it is liable when there is a clause imposing liability for nuisance , even if it is not negligent .
30 He is to blame — for starting whatever the hell it is Sam 's kidnappers mean to finish . ’
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