Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use a Lifebuilder Bible study to dig into what the Bible shares . |
| 2 | From the Reagan administration 's first decision to listen to what the Israelis were saying , the Iran-contra affair had found its firm foundation in political and diplomatic illusion . |
| 3 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 4 | The interactivity lies in the computer 's capacity to respond to what the user does . |
| 5 | She gave one group of male volunteers a new colour vocabulary to learn in which the terms were centred on the four basic colours . |
| 6 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 7 | They had no need to worry about what the National Consumer Council called ‘ manageable commitment ’ , in which the customer operated a system of precisely monitored deferred payment , only ‘ overcommitment ’ and ‘ unmanageable commitment ’ . |
| 8 | Fatialofa is L'Aquila 's ‘ foreign player ’ but on the other side of the scrum there is a South African of Italian descent , Gerardo Lepera , who does not count as a foreign player and has the right to play as what the Italians call an oriundi . |
| 9 | We are running down the side of the building now towards a stack of fat sacks , the perfect place to dispose of what the thieves do n't want . |
| 10 | I took the trouble to look at what the hon. Gentleman said last time , when Swan 's was successful . |
| 11 | ‘ It means being able to count on time each week to deal with whatever the home priority is . |
| 12 | No doubt the justice will in fairness give the defendant an opportunity to respond to what the constable is saying . |
| 13 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 14 | Our natural tendency to concentrate on what the program does and what appears on the screen can easily leave the class in the role of passive spectators , with exercises added almost as an afterthought . |
| 15 | Next , you 'll be making tracks for your hotel to prepare for whatever the evening brings . |
| 16 | Even without statutory warrant , it would make sense for privilege to attach to whatever a Member does as an incident of discharging his functions as a Member in relation to the proceedings of the House itself ( as opposed to in his external role as a political figure , or in relation to constituents , members of the public and non-parliamentary bodies ) . |
| 17 | He made a mental note to check on what the builder had been up to . |
| 18 | A treaty is an agreement to abide by whatever the words of the treaty mean . |