Example sentences of "what [noun sg] [verb] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What responsibility does it have to try to influence the human outlook ? |
| 2 | If the prey obligingly offers itself as an immobilised piece of meat , what advantage does it gain ? |
| 3 | Where , what bit does it start off ? |
| 4 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |
| 5 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 6 | What effect did it have on his private life ? |
| 7 | What light does it throw on the extent of public information about parties and programmes , and on the nature of public support for parties ? |
| 8 | Khrushchev 's dry comment on the Soviet lack of ‘ overkill ’ was : ‘ What good does it do to annihilate a country twice ? |
| 9 | Dentan cites an informant who asked rhetorically ‘ what good does it do an unhappy person to have another person upset ? ’ ( 1968 : 64 ) . |
| 10 | CATHERINE What good does it do , going over it all . |
| 11 | What good does it do to knock foreign governments and aid agencies who are at least trying to help ( Keynote and The new missionaries ) ? |
| 12 | Only what good did it do to admit it ? |
| 13 | The question most often asked by those who have heard an explanation of the mechanics of how parliamentary scrutiny works is what influence does it have on the final result — the directive or regulation which becomes Community law . |
| 14 | Although the Trojan has been described , sensationally , as ‘ the biggest computer crime in the world , ’ what law does it break ? |
| 15 | ‘ What difference does it make ? ’ frank looked at her out of his sunken eyes . |
| 16 | They prefer to play spasmodic gigs in uncomventional places , but in the end … what difference does it make ? |
| 17 | What difference does it make ? |
| 18 | Who is God and what difference does it make if God is not there ? |
| 19 | A losing attitude says , ‘ What difference does it make if I do n't do a job well ? ’ |
| 20 | ( Thus in the current debate about the ordination of women , both sides ask what does Jesus ' message suggest is the right thing to do , what difference does it make that Jesus was a male human being , or what kind of a community was the early church ? |
| 21 | ‘ What difference does it make ? ’ she answered tiredly . |
| 22 | ‘ What difference does it make ? ’ he growled . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , what difference does it make to you ? |
| 24 | What difference does it make ? |
| 25 | ‘ What difference does it make ? ’ |
| 26 | More and more I do n't bother — she does n't know and there 's usually no-one else to see so what difference does it make ? |
| 27 | ‘ And in the end , what difference does it make ? |
| 28 | ‘ What difference does it make to you how I find you ? ’ |
| 29 | And what difference does it make , Sir Coroner ? |
| 30 | wipe it off but nobody knows who you are anyway so what difference does it make ? |