Example sentences of "what [verb] we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , what made we want to be , I wanted to be a policeman when I was very young but never had the courage to do it . |
| 2 | ‘ What do we mean by similar ? ’ |
| 3 | What do we mean by the term ‘ age discrimination ’ ? |
| 4 | What do we mean by context ? |
| 5 | Firstly , what do we mean by the term ‘ paddle stroke ’ ? |
| 6 | What do we mean by the term ‘ equilibrium rate of national income ’ or ‘ equilibrium rate of output ’ ? |
| 7 | Yes , but what do we mean by ‘ nothing ’ ? |
| 8 | The answer is less satisfactory from the recording viewpoint — what do we mean by being ‘ good for a day ’ ? |
| 9 | What do we mean by these labels ? |
| 10 | What do we mean by ‘ the political context ’ ? |
| 11 | What do we mean by ‘ real jobs ’ , ‘ meaningful work ’ and ‘ decent employment ’ ? |
| 12 | One question to ask , then , is : What do we mean by science ? |
| 13 | As for the question , what do we mean by health ? — for the purpose of this issue we are quite happy to accept the definition proposed in the 1940s by WHO : the total physical , psychological and social well-being of individuals and communities . |
| 14 | But what do we mean by same in such an argument ? |
| 15 | What do we mean by clean ? |
| 16 | What do we mean by " continuous sedimentation " ? |
| 17 | So , what do we mean by a miracle ? |
| 18 | Erm well I mean I think there 's some very fundamental issues in all this in , in the communication spectrum first of all using the phrase back to basics , what do people mean by that and that 's where the , they , they have gone wrong because the problem is that here we are , four people round this table and I 'm sure if all of us were asked what do we mean by getting back to basics , we 'll come out with a totally different you know set of things that meanings . |
| 19 | And he wants to change his allocation , what do we mean by that , and when can he do it ? |
| 20 | What do we mean by an existing client , Shirley ? |
| 21 | And what do we mean by exploration of needs then Barry ? |
| 22 | What do we mean by the exploration of needs then ? |
| 23 | What do we mean by ‘ strong ’ and ‘ weak ’ ? |
| 24 | What do we mean by things getting better rather than worse ? |
| 25 | What do we mean by that ? |
| 26 | So what do we do about those pieces of music which are effectively our own property-which are so adolescent or tuneless or rebarbative or just mediocre that we ca n't justify wasting anyone else 's time with them — but which are important to us ? |
| 27 | It they were saying to me ‘ Korda , we 're pissed off with our records getting to 32 in the charts — what do we do about it ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The question is , what do we do about it ? ’ asked Reed of the Treasury . |
| 29 | We find a factory who 's not met its standards eight times in a year , and what do we do about it ? |
| 30 | What do we do about it ? |