Example sentences of "what [noun] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research is required into how the working patterns of scholars are likely to change to cope with the complexity and variety of information sources available to them , and what support they will require in this information seeking process . |
| 2 | What is more , it is able to tell others what direction they must fly in order to get food themselves . |
| 3 | and try and find out what they want and what 's happening to the social services and y you know what they think about er what they 'd , what skills they 'd like you to have and the sort of experience you need and so on . |
| 4 | If the advantages of decentralization of decision making are to be preserved , firms must be able to operate within a set of rules for competition that enable them to identify what strategies are likely to attract scrutiny , and what strategies they can pursue without hindrance . |
| 5 | In a joint programme organised by Edinburgh District Council and Lothian Regional Council , older people living in Edinburgh will have the opportunity to say what improvements they would like made to local services . |
| 6 | ‘ Our five-point charter covers provision , access , hygiene , design and facilities for parents , ’ she says , ‘ and we want people to tell us what improvements they 'd like . ’ |
| 7 | Well , I also believe , as I said earlier , that we should have p MPs who represent the G M B about MPs who represent theirselves , for what they can get out of it , what kudos they can get out of it , but leave the activists to do all the work for 'em , to do all the work . |
| 8 | A person may seek advice for one or more purposes and it is important to distinguish those who may need help in establishing whether they have a problem , those who need help in establishing what action they can take and those who need help in pursuing a remedy . |
| 9 | Over the last year , I have held a series of meetings with the major motor manufacturers to see what action they can take in the battle against car crime . |
| 10 | My mother has fixed ideas about what I should be teaching them , what schools they should attend and the clothes they wear . |
| 11 | Have you planned how many we shall have , and what schools they will go to ? |
| 12 | ‘ Use your spears , fools — see what blood they 'll draw from the air ! ’ |
| 13 | They forgot briefly that they were having a fight ; instead they had a happy half-hour of fantasy about what books they could write and read and live with . |
| 14 | If we were to mount a performance of this ballet , we would know , thanks to the livret , exactly how many dancers were needed and what roles they would play ; the musical forces are , regrettably , another matter . |
| 15 | Yes , go through the first five minutes , there were all different tasks , erm , at first , the girls were making up a basic jingle that would be about thirty seconds , and everyone else was looking through to see what words they should use . |
| 16 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 17 | I do n't know enough actuarial work to be able to and what settlements they should receive , but our own experience is that it 's hard enough to round up pensioners to form an association and we embody deferred pensioners and they 're even harder . |
| 18 | Know your medicines is divided into three sections : section 1 gives general information on using medicines , and advice on questions to ask a doctor , nurse or pharmacist ; section 2 covers the actions of medicines on the body system ; section 3 is an index of medicines to enable users to check what each is for and what effects they can have . |
| 19 | At the start of my period of being harassed , I went down to my local law centre to see what help they could give me . |
| 20 | While this obviously placed great limitations on the evidence available to social anthropologists it also spared them.the problems of trying to find out what help they could get from documentary sources . |
| 21 | It makes sense to see what the crucial contribution of the teacher is , and to test other models of the learning process which may from time to time be proposed to see what help they can give . |
| 22 | ‘ The problem is that when a new trick appears , everyone is trying to see what advantages they can get from it . |
| 23 | This chapter examines the broader economic circumstances of non-institutionalized elderly people , and the way these have changed over the last eighty years , to see how far and in what areas they may challenge the assertions of the ‘ structured dependency ’ school of authors . |
| 24 | The first was how schools should deal with AIDS ; the second , what attitude they should take to ‘ alternative lifestyles ’ . |
| 25 | Quite restrictive , but having gone through a phase of ambivalence about what population they could accommodate , one view was that there was no real problem , another view in the fifties it should be cut back . |
| 26 | Yeah , I wonder what cartoons they 'll have on tomorrow for the kid 's holiday ah ? |
| 27 | ‘ About what they 'd eat that evening in the restaurant and what wines they 'd drink . |
| 28 | The field linguist , engaged in radical translation , asks himself under what conditions the natives would assent to a given occasion sentence S , and under what conditions they would dissent . |
| 29 | And what usage they 'll give you . |
| 30 | They were using real brochures , choosing their holidays and working out what questions they must ask . |