Example sentences of "[conj] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any criteria for defining ‘ privileged information ’ , or what the ‘ dangers ’ are in revealing such matters as dispositions ( of manpower ) are so vaguely incorporated as to ensure that few will risk submitting an essay without approval , which might later be assessed as an ‘ improper disclosure ’ . |
| 2 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 3 | But tennis players do n't seem to know where they are or what the weather is like . |
| 4 | I FIND a lot of anxiety among people about the dividing lines between the seasons of the year , or what the French call pre-Mistral tension . |
| 5 | I remember nothing about who I was with or what the films were , I remember only the interval . |
| 6 | ‘ I rather like the way you are coping with that boring old hang-up of who or what the narrator of a novel is supposed to be , ’ he began again . |
| 7 | But the plain truth is that we can not say what was really done for the children or what the results were . |
| 8 | In any case it is not easy to be sure about how an illness will progress or what the outcome of a treatment will be . |
| 9 | It is not clear how this estimate was reached or what the terms of reference were , but it is an indicative view borne out by widespread apathy among students for their lessons . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know whether it 's a comedy or a satire , or what the hell it is , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 12 | In analysing group behaviour we need to distinguish between the task or what the group is doing ( its content ) and the interactions between members ( the process ) . |
| 13 | Religion , or what the Chinese used to call " the mandate of heaven " , has not been entirely displaced , and in the Islamic world has even enjoyed a revival . |
| 14 | Title page , which specifies the title , author(s) , for whom or what the report is submitted , date , department or place of origin . |
| 15 | There are many different ways in which speakers may exploit , in varying social functions , the resources of variation that are available to them , and we do not necessarily know beforehand what these are , how they interact , or what the limitations on possible variants may be . |
| 16 | Unless its practices are to arise totally spontaneously out of the ‘ innate ’ qualities of the new media , it is hard to see how this is to occur or what the music will be like . |
| 17 | But if someone asked me what the " oldest tree in the park " meant , or what " oak " meant , or what the meaning of the sentence as a whole was , I would have to explain to him the meaning of these expressions with the help of some other expressions which he could understand . |
| 18 | To show connections between historical information Historical events are often complicated , especially if you try to explain why they happened ( the causes ) , or how they were possible ( the origins ) , or what the results were ( the effects ) . |
| 19 | When she explained what the kidnappers were after and asked if he had any idea where or what the document might be , his reply was predictably negative . |
| 20 | The Americans have n't allowed the Saudis , or the lower Gulf states , or the Germans or Japanese to say how they should run the war , or what the objectives should be . |
| 21 | It is not certain , however , that such a V will always be found , or what the ‘ depth ’ of the V will be . |
| 22 | Never mind what the US government says or what the public thinks — that 's how it worked . |
| 23 | If we can recognise it then we know about it ( a Person ) , or how to tackle it with a standard solution ( a disease ) , or what the significance maybe ( an inflection in a chart ) . |
| 24 | The usual way of finding out what sort of Christmas the trade had , or what the high street thinks of the year just finished , is to do a ring round of booksellers and publishers and then report the opinions thus canvassed . |
| 25 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |
| 26 | In the case of poetry ( the first preoccupation in Formalist thinking ) it is ordinary , or what the Formalists call practical language that constitutes the main automatized element made strange by art . |
| 27 | We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) . |
| 28 | The investigation asks specific questions on how the reader establishes who or what the text is about and what or how directives are issued by the text to enable this to happen . |
| 29 | He realized , suddenly , he did n't want to know who or what the little boy was . |
| 30 | Throughout this study we will be discussing the crucial contributions made by recent writers within the social ( or what the Chicago School called ‘ cultural ’ ) level . |