Example sentences of "[adv] what the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made . |
| 2 | But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there . |
| 3 | So that 's basically what the book is about . |
| 4 | Where structural isomers are literally what the word suggests they have different structures different ways of linking the atoms together . |
| 5 | And then she knew , with the extra sense that her ancestors , the wolves , had possessed , she knew suddenly what the wrongness and the dry evil intelligence meant . |
| 6 | But this cautious , adroit , enigmatic leader seemed for long to be very much what the nation and the times required . |
| 7 | For the rest , a great deal of what you have to do in the detective novel will be much what the writer of the blueprint story had to do , though in each department there will be modifications . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , in America in 1945 an author called Lawrence Treat , who had half-a-dozen crime books already under his belt , produced one called V as in Victim , which did much what The Lonely Magdalen had done . |
| 9 | Fairfax then summarizes thoughtfully what the laibon has been saying . |
| 10 | Apparently what the erm busmen do is they have to make sure that they get to where they 're meant to be on time otherwise they get their pay docked but they like to stop off and see their friends on the way , and stop and have cups of tea |
| 11 | This is apparently what the fish brain does . |
| 12 | A saving is one way of looking at it or profiting from education is another way , apparently what the Conservatives would wish to do , they wish to make people pay for education and there is no other way of looking at it . |
| 13 | A case of the contrast which may be helpful as a mnemonic is that between a symphonic overture ( ascriptive ) which is symphonic in and by itself , and an operatic overture ( associative ) which does not have the usual characteristics of opera ( not only is it purely orchestral , it is often played with the curtain not yet risen ) but which is , nonetheless , designated by a phrase where the property OPERATIC is associated with OVERTURE in order to describe sufficiently what the speaker wishes to identify . |
| 14 | The Bible was true , eternal , and everlasting , but for clear advice , directly applicable to the hurry and fever of modern life , he was indebted to Michelet , who said aloud what the Gospel only whispered . |
| 15 | One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like . |
| 16 | and he was going oh all what the Tories have n't done for you , and he goes and what are Labour gon na do for us ? |
| 17 | That shows clearly enough what the Scottish Protestants feared . |
| 18 | The words are inadequate : consilium makes it plain enough what the testator 's own wishes would be , but there is no trust unless he has made his intention that a legal obligation should arise equally clear . |
| 19 | I knew well enough what the trouble was . |
| 20 | The springer spaniels , who gulp down what the children leave , will probably outlive next door 's parrot . |
| 21 | We have been riding down what the Americans have called the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ . |
| 22 | Some creditors will demand extra protection , such as restrictive covenants attached to their loans laying down what the firm must do if things go wrong . |
| 23 | They often set down what the job means and how things are done . |
| 24 | When you are ready , gently come back to the room and write down what the exercise revealed about your way-of-seeing the world . |
| 25 | Teachers can also annotate children 's drawings for them , writing down what the children say . |
| 26 | As well be seen , it is notoriously difficult to lay down what the boundaries of natural justice should be . |
| 27 | writes down what the problem is considered to be ; |
| 28 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 29 | Yes , that 's right , or to put it the other way round , Sarah , whenever you start speech , whenever you start writing down what the wor the words somebody actually says , Louisa , Yvette , concentrate hard you always use a capital letter . |
| 30 | But , I felt , I know , at one point I really thought I was going to have to ring Iris to come and just sit with the kiddies , but I thought well if I drop down what the hell , devil this house gon na look like in , with three of them let loose in . |