Example sentences of "[adv] what the " in BNC.
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| 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 rest is merely what the court will also say when they hear . |
| 21 | It follows that I expressly do not give judgement at any figure at this stage but indicate merely what the findings are which I have made and what the sums which those findings lead to , are . |
| 22 | The full range of information available in Total Communication is only available to the hearing teacher ; deaf children have to piece together what the visual mixture actually represents . |
| 23 | And so would Brown who , busy demolishing a sausage roll , observed through flaky lips : ‘ But it 's not necessarily what the relatives want . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So what the hell are you getting at ? ’ he asked quietly . |
| 25 | So what the Dickens is it all about ? |
| 26 | At this time the nurse may find it possible to gauge whether the patient is anxious and if so what the source(s) of this anxiety may be . |
| 27 | So what the hell is all this about ? ’ |
| 28 | So what the hell , eh ? ’ |
| 29 | So what the hell 's El Dorado Canyon ? ’ |
| 30 | Erm the has gone , in the past , er I just wondered whether any of us were able to attend that , and if so what the outcome of that was . |