Example sentences of "[adv] what [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Draw up a checklist of queries ( eg What does it do ?
2 Although it already had a number of blue chip clients , such as Wm Low and the Scottish Development Agency ( and now Scottish Enterprise ) , perhaps what made the firm 's reputation was the way it handled Scottish electricity privatisation for the Government , an appointment made before the Shandwick deal .
3 Perhaps what told him was the attention they paid to the drunk man who weaved his way , shouting and stumbling , down the car .
4 Perhaps what had passed had made her see more clearly her real feelings for me .
5 But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit , the body no longer interested in sex , the mind no longer interested in speculation , the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and , in the end , the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all .
6 However , perhaps what does make the cities different is their scale of decline and deprivation : those seeking the most disadvantaged in contemporary Britain would do well to start in the older urban cores .
7 Perhaps what has saved it is the fact that it is not situated on a major road .
8 Perhaps what makes the M. C. R. / S. C. R. relations in this College work is that both groups are accessible to each other for consultation and , very rarely , confrontation .
9 Perhaps what happened to her was really bad ?
10 Perhaps what disturbed him most about his daughter was her uncharacteristic calm .
11 I sat with him and told him basically what to do , ’ says Charman .
12 Basically what happens is that lava and other material is ejected from a hole in the ground , or crater , which is fed by a single pipe-like supply channel extending deep down below ground .
13 So basically what happens is Mike Rutherford will ring me up after they 've done the album and sent me a tape .
14 Basically what happens when you start signing on is you go into a national unemployment computer , and that national unemployment computer will pick up , as long as you 've got the date of birth and the national insurance number , you can pick up when a person started signing o and where they 're signing , you then check with the local office to see what address they 're claiming from and what their claiming for and everything else .
15 I did n't find out he was the artist who 'd done all of the paintings until the end of the conversation and that was basically what ended the conversation : I just ran off !
16 Basically what happened from that , the crown at the time then decided to widen the streets and broaden the pavements .
17 But our guy very I mean basically what happened is our guy waited till a senior officer went into the the screen
18 But , exactly when he was alive basically what happened in his career .
19 I mean , I know , one , one essay I had to write erm wa was erm literally what constituted a person as far as philosophy ?
20 Right , and by cause I think , by cause is is is literally what 's said there , but of course , yes that that we now read that as because .
21 There is a very strong tendency to take literally what needs imaginative interpretation .
22 At a Conservative party meeting on 28 August , Amery noted that Horne ‘ on the whole agrees with me that we have got into a considerable mess and that the great thing is to extricate our people as soon as possible , ’ while Hailsham in his speech ‘ supported entirely what had been done but trusted that it would not last longer than two months — whereat loud cheers ’ .
23 Suddenly what seems to be at stake is the Britishness of being Britain'
24 Suddenly what seems to be at stake is not economic and material wellbeing , but the Britishness of being Britain …
25 It is not so much what happens to people that is important as what they think has happened to them .
26 Which is pretty much what happens , although one of the new jumpers does n't quite get it right and ends up doing an unscheduled , but spectacular stunt .
27 This thinking has apparently not been overly concerned with the argument that from that point on it would be not so much what went on in Britain as what happened in Germany which would count most ( a phenomenon clearly illustrated by the chart in Appendix 2 ) .
28 The tourists whose cars clog the roads into Cornwall each Summer Saturday know pretty much what to expect of Cornwall and the Cornish .
29 Now that herb nursery and seed lists name hundreds of species , the problem is not so much what to grow , as where to grow — how to fit as many as possible of these delightful plants into the general garden scene .
30 It may not matter very much what claims the Association makes for itself but one would hope that co-operation and not confrontation is to be its approach , and the making of false claims can only antagonise the Law .
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