Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greater the freedom given ( and in this case the overt touting of particular potential clients and an obligation not to offend whatever passes for good taste are the only restrictions of substance ) the more numerous the regulations on matters of detail : C Northcote Parkinson would be in his element ! |
| 2 | It is one matter being told you should deal in a different way with the person you dislike or despise , yet another to know what to do with strong emotions you experience in relation to these people . |
| 3 | They were at a loss to know what to do with this sullen rebel who kept bursting out against them so unjustly . |
| 4 | Teachers must be helped to recognise abuse and have the confidence to know what to do about any concerns . ’ |
| 5 | Children need to know what to do in these cases if they are to get at the truth , and they also need to be shown that print is not necessarily infallible . |
| 6 | Right judgment is to help us to know what to do in difficult situations . |
| 7 | But I must admit I 've got to know what happened with that goal , or free kick in |
| 8 | When you first meet her you 're intrigued to know what happened to those missing teeth . |
| 9 | It is true that on one occasion , when asked if Gandhi had not been tiresome , he replied that ‘ Some people found Our Lord very tiresome ’ ; but in the context of general unsympathy it is difficult to know what to make of this very Irwinian rebuke . |
| 10 | It is hard to know what to make of this . |
| 11 | It is hard to know what to make of this . |
| 12 | So when one producer or studio is responsible for a string of hits , it 's only necessary to find out what distinguishes its operation from that of other , less successful , operations , or what has changed when the same producer or studio hit a bum run , to discover what makes for successful film production . |
| 13 | This research aims to identify what lies behind successful collaboration and to draw lessons about best practice in the formulation and management of collaboration . |
| 14 | Serum triglyceride levels are more affected by the ingestion of food , but one quickly learns to gauge what amounts to satisfactory random cholesterol and triglyceride results and when a fasting specimen is required . |
| 15 | I just do n't know what to do what to do with that one . |
| 16 | In many places the cultural context of the original account may bear sufficient likeness to our own to enable us to interpret what transpires without much difficulty . |
| 17 | Although we have not yet found the exact form of all these laws , we already know enough to determine what happens in all but the most extreme situations . |
| 18 | But in a series of remarks broadly encouraging to solicitors , Lord Mackay said the lay-dominated advisory committee would be likely to consider what happens in other countries where there was no enforced separation of the two functions . |
| 19 | ‘ It is up to this meeting to decide what happens to those stocks , but we see no reason for Hong Kong to be penalised . ’ |
| 20 | The Consortium will have to decide what to do at this point ( see Scenario 2 below ) . |
| 21 | It may be that er a child is being ill-treated in some way er by somebody , and we can help to decide what to do about that . |
| 22 | If , therefore , women want to storm the citadel and share its existing treasures , they have to decide what to do about these autonomy-centred ways of thinking . |
| 23 | We thought of having a party on that day to watch what happens to one another . |
| 24 | Or rather not , but keep the odds of knowledge in my power without co-partner , so to add what wants in female sex the more to draw his love and render me more equal and perhaps a thing not undesirable sometimes superior , for inferior . |
| 25 | We had to see what happened to these railways er is more people going to er to go by train , or are less going to go . |
| 26 | If the hon. Gentleman sends the evidence , we will examine it to see what happened in that case , and whether it is evidence of a larger problem . |
| 27 | ‘ It is quite wrong for any member of this House to compare what happened in 1957 to what happened last week . ’ |
| 28 | His calculations were very accurate , and he was able to take what seemed to uninitiated Staff Officers big risks , knowing that the shelling would stop before he reached the place being shelled . |
| 29 | The machine controls caused power to be applied and consequences to occur which resulted in changed readings on the instruments . |
| 30 | The sudden rise and sharp decline in public concern for pollution seems to follow what happens to most major social problems as exemplified by the ‘ issue attention cycle ’ ( Downs , 1972 ; O'Riordan , 1976 ) or the ‘ worry bead hypothesis ’ ( Kates , 1977 ) . |