Example sentences of "and what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 2 | Lousy film and what the hell is going on here ? |
| 3 | Property dualism holds that the perception and the neural events which are its physical basis are simply different aspects , properties or attributes of the same ( physical ) events : what the physiologist observes on examining the brain and what the owner of the examined brain feels are two aspects of the same event . |
| 4 | And what the commentators are really paying homage to , what prompts their sense of coherence and a world revealed , is a feat of illusionist sorcery . |
| 5 | Traditionally , the notion of personal response and what the Newbolt Report called ‘ literature as a living thing ’ were regarded by all schools as at the heart of English study , but there is no place for them in Zapp 's perspective . |
| 6 | It described the high that ensues from smoking crack ( 'Crack is both spacey and intense' ) and the downs that follow ; it told his readers how he bought it and what the morning after was like . |
| 7 | Eschewing the Western suit and tie and flamboyant clothes from Hong Kong , the new line features the standard Mao suit and what the official New China News Agency describes as ‘ Lenin 's small V-neck look ’ . |
| 8 | Then draw diagrams showing exactly where the gear is positioned , where the musicians and vocalists are standing , and what the levels are on the amps and the instruments . |
| 9 | To set the ticket price , the agent has to look at what is happening in the industry , what an average ticket price is , and what the touring artist is worth as an attraction . |
| 10 | At times ( for example , under Mr Heath ) governments have abandoned economic pricing as part of an anti-inflation programme ; at other times , notably over the price increases in gas between 1980 and 1982 when the Thatcher government each year raised prices 30 per cent above the current rate of inflation , above ‘ economic ’ pricing levels and what the board wished . |
| 11 | And what the hell was the coroner going to say ? |
| 12 | To get a 5% or 10% saving the hotel will need to know its exact electricity consumption pattern and what the overall result of each tariff profile on offer will be . |
| 13 | But there was little he or Mrs Thatcher in earlier exchanges , could do to mitigate what Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal Democrats ' leader , called ‘ a shameful example ’ of human rights policy and what the shadow Foreign Secretary , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said was ‘ a policy of the three o'clock knock by police ’ . |
| 14 | It was the closest of calls , and what the book enthrallingly brings out is how much it all depended on this handful of enthusiasts to preserve an enclave unique in London . |
| 15 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 16 | In all such cases you may not be satisfied to receive even large damages for the wrong done ; and what the amount of damages is to be may be very uncertain . |
| 17 | Spanish rules and regulations then determine what percentage of total output will be exported and what the local component content will be . |
| 18 | They were supposed to heighten our perceptions , but really I could see little difference between my ordinary vision of life , which was fantastic enough , and what the pills apparently produced , mainly a nervous sleeplessness shot through with incoherent babblings and bursts of laughter alternating with floods of tears . |
| 19 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 20 | Indeed , the Conservative Party did begin to widen its potential appeal by issuing a plethora of pamphlets in the 1920s : Aims and Principles ( 1924 ) , What Unionists have done for Workers ( 1925 ) , What the Conservative Government has done for Education ( 1928 ) and What the Conservative Government has done for Health ( 1929 ) . |
| 21 | Sitting in Pat 's front room , surrounded by her nine Labradors , many of whom are rescue cases themselves , I asked Pat how the charity had been formed and what the situation was at present . |
| 22 | A nasal voice screeched from inside the building , ‘ And what the fuck was that ? ! ’ |
| 23 | Before you commit to a venue go there yourself and find out what exactly it will provide and what the extras will be . |
| 24 | Merely by shutting his door if it was open , North would add to the intrigue of meetings : ‘ and when the meeting was over , I still could n't understand why the door was shut and what the intrigue was ’ said a visiting official , puzzled ; ‘ it was in my mind 's eye a social call . ’ |
| 25 | He made a similar point about a rise in salary for municipal employees : there was no possibility of seriously debating that unless the local Assembly knew what they might otherwise spend the money on , and what the total budget for the municipalities was — and information on both points was not forthcoming . |
| 26 | It is part of a drive towards ‘ ability ’ in computer systems , a belated acknowledgement that designers should address not just what the system should do but also who will use it , how frequently , what tasks they must perform , what environment it will be used in ( eg quiet or noisy , light or dark ) , and what the critical success factors are ( eg speed or accuracy ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I plan the holidays and what the others do n't know is that , in the course of planning , I 've developed the precise art of finding somewhere to stay where , when you open your bedroom window , in front of you is the most splendid bit of Romanesque architecture . |
| 28 | Endill wrote a note in tiny handwriting and wrapped it around the bottle , explaining the plan and what the Bookman was to do . |
| 29 | They want to know what is going on , and what the general wants them to do , and why , and when ; they want to see and decide in their own minds what sort of person he is . |
| 30 | I would be very grateful if you could let me know if we are able to make use of the tracks and what the cost would be . |