Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a book explaining what goes into water-based coatings , and why , ought to be of interest both to the specialist coating technologist and to the industrial chemist . |
| 2 | In the shallows several men were pushing what looked like triangular bamboo ploughs through the water . |
| 3 | While we 're deciding what to look at next , I ask John what Quo are up to presently … |
| 4 | Farmers are wondering what to do with eight million tonnes of straw now that burning it has been banned . |
| 5 | For months , British diplomats have been wondering what to do with this thoroughbred stallion , an official present to the Prime Minister which has so far caused him nothing but embarrassment . |
| 6 | Subsequently a more sophisticated interpretation historicized this account , describing what happened to popular music in the late 1950s and early 1960s in terms of the incorporation or co-option of rock 'n' roll into the repertoire of the hegemonic bloc . |
| 7 | Jamila was wearing what looked like several sacks : long skirts , perhaps three , one over the other , and a long smock in faded green beneath which the flat arcs of her braless breasts were visible to the slightly interested . |
| 8 | When Laura came to stay , and swept into church in an Easter bonnet of her own devising which quivered with artificial lilac , and laughed out loud at a tiny joke in Peter 's sermon , to encourage him , one of the churchwardens wrote to the Bishop . |
| 9 | It did not have the spines of a bristleworm , having what looked like feathery gills on each segment instead . |
| 10 | Tatsuro Akanegakubo , head of the Japanese group Italplanning which specialises in architectural restoration and the conservation of works of art , has put together a package of sponsors that includes multinationals , banks , Nippon TV , and the daily newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun . |
| 11 | Knowing what happens to tall , good-looking Mary Smith when she stepped outside of her cottage and something awful happened . |
| 12 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 13 | Experiments involve comparing what happens in one situation ( the control group ) with what happens in another ( the experimental group ) . |
| 14 | Punishment , Durkheim maintained , was neither corrective nor deterrent in intention ; it was a passionate reaction on the part of society which , in taking what amounted to collective revenge on the criminal , symbolically reaffirmed and restored the moral values and common loyalties which he had desecrated : symbolic lynching in which an outburst of punitive indignation against the criminal healed the injuries which he had inflicted on society . |
| 15 | Whatever the social and political structure of Greece in the Bronze Age and its aftermath , in the Geometric and Orientalising periods we see the pattern emerging which persists in archaic and classical times and in some degree even after Alexander : small , independent city-states , often at war with each other but united by language , legend and religion . |
| 16 | Out in the open firth a few gannets were flying about , watching for any fish movement and occasionally making what seemed like exploratory dives . |
| 17 | But the general proposition that human affairs must be understood from within does not require the assumption that individuals make history , except perhaps as a convenient device for identifying what calls for deeper understanding . |
| 18 | They spend up to 3,000 hours bringing what look like rusty writeoffs back to pristine condition . |
| 19 | ‘ The police were using what seemed like heavy-duty rifles but they were in plain clothes and the cars were unmarked . ’ |
| 20 | Where information technology permits operational integration across borders , other forms of technology are transforming what happens within each operation . |
| 21 | Finance Minister Barend J. du Plessis in his budget speech on March 14 , 1990 , announced expenditure of R72,900 million ( an increase of 9.7 per cent over the 1989/90 budget — see p. 36915 ) ; revenue was expected to reach just under R65,000 million , up by 7.3 per cent on the previous year , leaving a deficit before borrowing which amounted to 2.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 22 | The 39 signatories will be discussing what to do about growing pressures for development of the continent 's resources . |
| 23 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 24 | He had suddenly appeared through the trees and was thrusting what looked like half a chicken into my now outstretched hand . |