Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] what the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Given these kinds of powers , benefits and resources , it is interesting to speculate upon what the appropriate local authorities might have done during this period . |
| 3 | With that side of his face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing . |
| 4 | The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed . |
| 5 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 6 | We invariably start our process by trying , together with the help of younger people , to look at what the present trends of the world are likely to lead to . |
| 7 | I took the trouble to look at what the hon. Gentleman said last time , when Swan 's was successful . |
| 8 | But for our need at this moment , we have to look at what the Holy Spirit is doing . |
| 9 | So appraisal has , or should have nothing to do with what the tabloid press likes to call ‘ weeding out ’ . |
| 10 | Er just to run through what the two what the two schools sort of think it will be fair to say that the traditional school thinks as follows . |
| 11 | To do this , it is first necessary to see if it is possible to agree on what the crucial principles are that characterise both the original biological positivists and the proposed wider category . |
| 12 | Speakers express their message in terms of their own perceptions and within their own frame of reference without making any attempt to relate what they want to say with what the other person is likely to hear . |
| 13 | It is therefore conceptually useful to distinguish between what the mass media tell us to think about — this is signalled by the events they cover — and what specific attitudes or opinions we have to adopt towards those events , though clearly these distinctions may be difficult to uphold in practice . |