Example sentences of "what do [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
| 2 | He had to decide what to do about the serious state of the Government 's own finances — the spiralling budget deficit estimated at £50 billion for next year — and he had to try to help the country to get out of the exceptionally severe recession which has bought both company failures and exceptionally high unemployment . |
| 3 | The topic at the moment is what to do about the working poor , particularly those with children . |
| 4 | On the day that Wilson was elected to office , he telephoned me , tracking me down to a restaurant in London , to enquire what to do about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 5 | But even you do n't know what to do about the third , do you ? |
| 6 | What to do about the high labour turnover ? |
| 7 | He was n't sure what to do about the missing woman , wondering where on earth she could be , until a knock at the rear entrance answered the question for him . |
| 8 | She does n't know what to do with the used one . |
| 9 | You know , we do n't know what to do with the bloody bit . |
| 10 | I need to be advised on what to do with the existing indexing services — should they be integrated with BG-BASE fields or with the Library system ? |
| 11 | I am totally computer hostile so I would n't have known what to do with the damn thing . |
| 12 | Deciding what to do with the Arab volunteers is hard for Pakistan , which is under pressure from other Islamic governments , and from America , to eject them . |
| 13 | Having released a highly successful book of Russian posters the renowned publisher Aurora , which publishes books for export , does not know what to do with the rich reserve of editorial material it has accumulated over recent years , and it has been forced to sell transparencies and texts . |
| 14 | One of the most painful issues concerns the increasingly urgent question about what to do with the 250,000 works of art which are rotting away in various stores as a result of the disastrous consequence of the BKR scheme . |
| 15 | I wish I knew what to do with the other azalea . |
| 16 | Wish I knew what to do with the other azalea . |
| 17 | At the end of 1985 the directors met to consider these figures and to determine future development policy with regard to the Dee Hall , in particular what to do with the adjoining Dee Cinema site . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The problem of what to do with the 55,000 Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong detention centres will figure prominently in the talks . |
| 22 | What to do with the beautiful web we had made ? |
| 23 | The main problem here is what to do with the existential quantifier . |
| 24 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 25 | On the way home he said , ‘ These sincere men think they know what to do for the black man . |
| 26 | I do n't know what to do for the best . |
| 27 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 28 | Yes , it had not been easy knowing what to do for the best . |
| 29 | She did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 30 | What to do for the best has been the subject of much discussion at local aquatic societies over the years . |