Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawings were altered er instead of getting a whole sheet of a combined er er part of a , a steering gear or whatever it might have been , er they were all itemized and reduced to part pieces , and it was much easier to look , examine and find out what sizes were required than , you know , three dimensional er drawings . |
| 2 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 3 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 4 | Until fairly recently I do n't think people have understood the design process or what it can do for the success of their companies . |
| 5 | Can it market itself more effectively to its potential customers , many of whom are unclear about what factoring is or what it can do for their company ? |
| 6 | What nervousness means or what it can mean . |
| 7 | ‘ We know what this means , or what it could mean . |
| 8 | To sum up then , according to the so-called unorthodox view , the company , or rather individuals on the conglomerate 's behalf , deals on either inside information acquired in the course of business about another company , for example , an investment banking client on the verge of announcing an increase in expected profits ; or on information ‘ leaked ’ by one arm of the conglomerate about a long or short position it has taken as market maker on specific shares and which it would like to off-load into the accounts of customers in the conglomerate 's fund management arm . |
| 9 | I am thinking of a feeling of confidence which has been built up and which it would take some drastic change to break down . |
| 10 | In submitting its scheme of delegation to the DES for approval , each LEA had to make decisions about which of the permitted discretionary items it intends to control from the centre and which it will delegate to schools . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the policy formation process is a largely uncontrolled one : on the whole , the government decides which groups it will consult or listen to and which it will ignore ; and empirical evidence shows what one would intuitively expect , namely that some groups are in a much better position to influence government than others . |
| 12 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 13 | Although set up fairly soon after the coordinating committee , the Inservice Panel got off to rather a slow start , with its early meetings being characterised by fairly unstructured discussion of how it might function and what it might aim to achieve . |
| 14 | It was not in Richard Branson 's instincts to look back , but occasionally — just occasionally — he thought about Student , and what it might have become . |
| 15 | a more detached view of what was the right thing or the wrong thing to do , a tradition of what national life was like , and what it ought to continue to be like . |
| 16 | He explained , tersely , to Edward Carrington what their cargo was and what it would mean if German scientists got hold of it . |
| 17 | Referring to Lord Prosser 's judgment and what it would mean , Mrs Smith gave an example of two women in labour at the same time . |
| 18 | But I , I , I think there is a conflict between what we would regard as being a , an acceptable subsistence level and what it would appear that the peasants could possibly have been achieving . |
| 19 | think of the local , think of the and what it would say if you had an orgy . |
| 20 | To this list of common origins and influences , of shared ambitions and institutions , one must also add a common interest in research , a keen theoretical ambition — on some occasions at least — and a fascination with speech and what it may reveal . |
| 21 | Then we are bringing our past experiences and present interests to bear on what we read ; in short , we are actively involving ourselves in reading , at last able to comprehend what the text means to us , and what it can do to and for us . |
| 22 | They therefore need to gain insight into what language is and what it can do , insights which bilingual children intuitively possess ’ , and ‘ Whilst we recognise that they [ bilingual pupils ] need to gain access to standard forms of English — used widely as a vehicle for implementing the school curriculum , we recognise the value and importance of their own dialects and languages . |
| 23 | In his seminal paper on ‘ the invisible worlds of animals and men ’ , Jacob von Uexkull defined the task of comparative psychology as the articulation of the varied Umwelten of different creatures , by identifying what a given species can perceive and what it can do accordingly ( von Uexkull 1957 ) . |
| 24 | HOG will define an object 's attributes — what parameters can be set and what information can be retrieved ; the ‘ methods ’ associated with that object — what can be done to it and what it can do ; and its notification — what the object emits ( such as warning to tell the system that a file is nearly full , for example ) and what it can be read to . |
| 25 | Your familiarity with the machine and what it can do will suggest to you ways you can use it in your teaching . |
| 26 | I know all about that scene and what it can do to a man . ’ |
| 27 | The UN is being asked to police Iraq 's border with Kuwait ; to decide how much oil Iraq sells abroad and what it can buy in return ; to make sure Iraq destroys any nuclear- or chemical-weapons plants ; and to get ready to protect Kurdish enclaves when American , British and French soldiers leave . |
| 28 | Furthermore , he must keep them informed about progress of the project — what they will get , when they will get it , and what it will cost . |
| 29 | London Underground 's Charter will set out tougher new standards and what it will do to compensate passengers should it fail to meet those standards . |
| 30 | So if the offer is made to you to work shorter hours , think carefully about these aspects , and what it will do to your pension . |