Example sentences of "of what [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will pour forward with so many bodies , banking on the law of averages that says they will pick up 50 per cent of what falls into the box . |
| 2 | It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers . |
| 3 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 4 | The problem of what to do with the 55,000 Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong detention centres will figure prominently in the talks . |
| 5 | There remained the question of what to do with the king . |
| 6 | The initial interest of political researchers into the question of what to do with the regions came about , it must be said , not out of concern for neglected political interests in the periphery ( what Tarrow refers to as ‘ regionalism as peripheral defence ’ ) but because of a trend thought to have been observed in modern politics which seemed to go to the heart of the functioning of modern political systems . |
| 7 | The likelihood of her arrival at Brighton , the possibility of her speaking in the debate on immigration , and the nice problem of what to do with the old bat on the Friday afternoon ( a vote of thanks ? a place on the platform ? a solo entrance ? ) — these matters were all now exercising Fowler 's mind , the peace of which was not helped by the lead story in the Daily Mail : ‘ MAGGIE BRIGHTON BOUND ’ . |
| 8 | Amid growing public debate in France over the question of what to do with the country 's nuclear waste , a parliamentary report has called for major changes in the state nuclear waste agency , ANDRA ( Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs ) . |
| 9 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 10 | No er some people have suggested buying Skodas , but then we 've still got the problem of what to do with the rest of the money . |
| 11 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 12 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 13 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 14 | Under each picture of the plant are graphic instructions for local people of what to do in the event of an emergency as well as information about the plant . |
| 15 | Many of the people in the villages on the fringe of Dartmoor were afraid of what lay at the heart of the upland . |
| 16 | The feel of a book in her hands was an ancient solace — not , originally , because of what lay between the covers but as a screen , a defence , a shield . |
| 17 | Both had a fleeting vision of what lay beneath the mound of earth : the varnished wood , the brass handles , their mother . |
| 18 | His recollection of what lay behind the next step , the establishment of an ill-fated Royal Commission , is illuminating : |
| 19 | It has fallen to salaried professionals in universities , public record offices , the Business Archives Council , corporate bodies themselves — and the ‘ vanity press ’ — to salvage and conserve the tons of old papers explaining the historical context of what tumbled off the production line . |
| 20 | Because now one man , now another would produce some part of what became in the end the motion picture camera . |
| 21 | ‘ Its ‘ word of mouth ’ share is out of all proportion to its share of what goes into the mouth' |
| 22 | Cooper & Lybrand 's Mr Mole says : ‘ Haagen-Dazs has created a so-called super premium sector whose share of ‘ word of mouth ’ is out of all proportion to its share of what goes into the mouth . ’ |
| 23 | but in terms of what goes in the costs of the management charges in the brochure the systems changed since the Telegraph article has n't it ? |
| 24 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 25 | I think from my own personal preference I would very much like to have an understanding of what happens at the interface between solids and liquids , because this affects so many different branches of chemistry and physics _ the understanding of what happens at interfaces will govern the understanding of what makes things stick together , what makes catalysis occur , the nature of rocks even . |
| 26 | The stoichiometry of the reaction is given by , CO+2H 2 →CH 3 OH but this equation gives no indication of what happens on the catalyst surface : for example , carbon dioxide is almost certainly involved as an intermediate at one stage . |
| 27 | The stoichiometry of the reaction is given by , but this equation gives no indication of what happens on the catalyst surface : for example , carbon dioxide is almost certainly involved as an intermediate at one stage . |
| 28 | This is guaranteed by the bank , irrespective of what happens to the spot rate over the next three months . |
| 29 | The second stage of taphonomic modification takes account of what happens to the small mammal carcases shortly after death . |
| 30 | Monk wrote an account of their experience for the Universe , and has been promoted to write a fuller account of the Church 's teaching on death , of what happens to the soul before , during and after death . |