Example sentences of "[to-vb] what happen [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe .
2 Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material .
3 You 'll have to wait to see what happens to the Famous Five until he can read it to you in his own inept fashion .
4 To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley .
5 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 .
6 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 ’ .
7 Neither the political right nor left wants to tell what happened from the 1920s through 1945 .
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