Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [verb] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 And of course , there is the ‘ ENDINGS ’ section , for all the people who do n't like reading books but want to know what happens in the end . ’
2 JEWKES is interested to know what happens in the bedroom .
3 My reply to these people , if they asked me what happened at the branch meeting I say , do you want to know what happened in the branch meeting ?
4 The tree itself is beautiful but the combination of the clay soil and the shade from the tree means its not easy to know what to grow in the west-facing border underneath .
5 This year 's report hopes to bring about a consultation exercise to establish what to prioritize in the G M B Health and Safety Service .
6 The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection .
7 Our main concern is to identify what happened in the premises . ’
8 Its goal was to identify what stands in the way of effective action on the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere .
9 To increase the reliability of police investigations we need , in the first place , to accept that the cause for flawed police results is generally rooted in serious problems encountered in attempts to determine what happened in the past .
10 Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe .
11 Festinger and his colleagues wished to study what happened in a religious sect when their prophecy that the world was coming to an end on a particular day turned out to be wrong ( Festinger , Rieken , and Schachter 1956 ) .
12 In order to decide what to include in the questionnaire we drew first of all on issues which had emerged in the two case studies .
13 A simple decision rule can be used to decide what to do in the case of source units which cross the target unit boundaries .
14 I appreciate that it was extremely difficult for you to decide what to do in the circumstances of some hon. Members being unable to get into the House .
15 Nevertheless , state-centrists , transnational relations advocates and Marxists of several persuasions , while acknowledging the growing importance of the global system in one form or another , all continue to prioritize the system of nation-states , they all fall back on it to describe what happens in the world , and to explain how and why it happens .
16 By turning our backs , we would forfeit our right to influence what happens in the Community and I am not prepared to do that .
17 But Pipe said : ‘ The Gold Cup is a long way away and we 'll just have to see what happens in the meantime . ’
18 The chains slithered again , and there was a scuttling movement in the shadows , and Grainne turned to see what crouched in the corner .
19 Indeed , for most of human history we have tended to do the reverse , to use the analogy of the human mind to explain what happens in the physical world , an approach known as ‘ animism ’ .
20 They are : ( 1 ) the relationship between psychology and biology and the possibility of dispensing with psychology altogether once physiology has been developed sufficiently ; ( 2 ) the value of studies on non-human species ; ( 3 ) the degree of functional specialization in the sub-areas of the brain and the ways of analysing and describing those functions ; ( 4 ) the way we are responding to the challenges of cognitive psychology ; and ( 5 ) the importance of being able to explain what happens in the real world , rather than just the laboratory .
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