Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] what [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always been desirous of devoting what little capability and energy I may possess to the country which I love most dearly . ’ |
| 2 | But we must now leave these tangential matters and return to the task of establishing what social anthropology is and does . |
| 3 | If implemented , we face the danger of replacing what little uniqueness is left of the Royal Mile with a commonplace traffic engineers ' solution that can be found all over the world . |
| 4 | It will not just be a matter of noting what linguistic behaviour it provokes . |
| 5 | The question now becomes that of deciding what precise proportion of any unexpectedly high price is due to the aggregate demand shock and what proportion is due to the relative demand shock . |
| 6 | A private or public meeting of any proposed witnesses might be called for the purpose of considering what local evidence could be adduced to support Mr. Fraser 's report . |
| 7 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 8 | Indeed the adjective must be so understood ; if we try to imagine using , in the structure of ( 16 ) , an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase ( nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence ) , there will be only two possible outcomes : If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb , the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb : ( 17 ) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively , it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either ; but , in that case , there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to — it will in effect be semantically " loose " , so that the whole will be incomprehensible : ( 18 ) the process left the documents puzzled Thus , the property of the adjective qualifies , in purely syntactic terms , the inner grouping of verb and object ; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase , but not directly , only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements — as in certain engineering and architectural structures , each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively . |
| 9 | It is worth noting what that convention says . |
| 10 | Sheldon Krimsky 's book stems from this study , but in the light of the other books devoted to this same goal that have appeared over the past five years , it is worth considering what Genetic Alchemy adds to previous efforts . |
| 11 | Alexei thought about asking what latest scandal Jehan had heard , and how widely it was being spread abroad . |
| 12 | In considering what possible action to take against Libya in future , will my right hon. Friend work extremely closely with his European Community opposite numbers ? |
| 13 | Their personal commitment to the case was an important ingredient in its success , and is an important factor in considering what further action should be taken . |
| 14 | In so far as its obstinate traditionalism prevented it from doing what political economy required , it had to be made to . |
| 15 | Even Raine 's critics acknowledge that , in doing what dirty work had to be done and attracting the odium that went with it , she has put her stepson in a strong position . |
| 16 | The difficulty is in knowing what local opinion really has to say on these matters . |
| 17 | In specifying what sexual harassment means — anything from pinups and sexist jokes to assault and rape at work — its policies against sexual harassment raise the consciousness of men . |
| 18 | However , even when this is achieved , there may still be problems in interpreting what this information means . |
| 19 | The drama comes not from discussing what each decision would mean , but in making the decision and working through the consequences . |
| 20 | The impetus for change was to come , however , less from acknowledging the true condition of rural cottages , than from discovering what working-class housing in towns was really like . |
| 21 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 22 | In these texts for the first time we find ‘ precatory ’ being used to describe the essential nature of trusts , and as the key to discovering what legal institution is involved . |
| 23 | Lewis is better than any modern writer both at explaining what Christian behaviour should be and at analysing its difficulties . |
| 24 | By suggesting what that contribution might be we shall show that it does not yet figure in the common PGCE topics and secondly that there is a kind of linguistic knowledge which is specifically appropriate to beginning language teachers . |