Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [Wh det] the " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | After Dan Salmon 's funeral , Charlie tried to read the Daily Chronicle every morning in the hope of discovering what the second battalion , Royal Fusiliers , were up to and where his father might be . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm still sort of puzzling what the best thing , best thing to do for that hedge down there . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Strategic planning is the business of deciding what the main goals of the organization are and what policies should be adopted in pursuing them . |
| 8 | Talks incessantly to the point of forgetting what the original question was , using long , rambling sentences which go on for so long that the interviewee ca n't remember where they started . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Family doctors are trained in the art of discovering what the patient has really come to see them about . |
| 11 | Before 1971 the prospect of remarriage in the case of a widow was often an important factor in considering what the appropriate multiplier would be . |
| 12 | So we may want to introduce a more sophisticated mechanism for determining what the desired level of supply is and what we 'll do is that we 'll say this is actually a special case of a much more general , er more s sophisticated . |
| 13 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 14 | She had a good view of the hospital entrance , so she started her private game of guessing what the people were . |
| 15 | Yet , this is not an argument against quantification per se , only against its premature use in advance of knowing what the mathematical properties of the phenomena of social life might be . |
| 16 | They were entitled in my judgment to take into account the actual use by the defendant company and the previous owner in determining what the ordinary use of that vehicle was on the road so far as it is relevant to the question they had to answer . |
| 17 | It is impossible to make any such comparison without knowing what the institutional arrangements of the system would be . |
| 18 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Individuals have a right to some independence , and areas of choice in their style of living whatever the degree of their eventual infirmity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They they 've looked at erm housing and er industrial development , er I was n't at the discussion yesterday , but clearly they 've put a significant effort into deciding what the appropriate level of new industrial development is . |
| 23 | The nature of the decision may well be taken into account in determining what the content of natural justice should be in a particular instance , but the utility of the administrative , judicial , executive , legislative distinctions over and beyond this is difficult to perceive . |
| 24 | The normal factors are to be taken into account in assessing what the appropriate multiplier should be : the ages of the husband and wife , the ages of any dependent children , the uncertainties of life and the accelerated benefits provided by the lump-sum payment . |
| 25 | But your readers will still get some satisfaction in the end from hearing what the detective deduced from something that was put before their own eyes and which they passed over . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had no way of knowing what the President thought . |
| 28 | Alternatively , we could use an electronically-controlled variable-speed turntable , but we have no absolute way of knowing what the correct speed is . |
| 29 | He seemed greatly recovered , and resigned to the idea of using what the church so obligingly had offered . |
| 30 | The Tories , and their ruling-class supporters , wish to keep the ordinary worker from knowing what the substance of this social chapter is , how it really just gives more backing to much of what they have already gained through industrial struggles for nearly 200 years , and the extension of these rights to every worker , especially the more isolated ones . |