Example sentences of "on what [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That will depend … on what exactly it is you want , ’ he muttered vaguely . |
| 2 | Kavner is n't clear as crystal on what exactly changed his mind — though he claims it was n't the money — and claims not to know what persuaded Noorda to push it in November when it all started to happen . |
| 3 | If , then , we define the first aim of college as being to provide an intellectual training in the useful arts , we might leave both schools to continue their debate on what exactly constitutes usefulness in a rapidly-changing economic and social world . |
| 4 | Yes a after Chernobyl there was a certain amount of alarm about erm about hill farms , Cumberland and so forth and it 's all gone quiet now , can you update us on what exactly |
| 5 | There are two different versions to be discerned of the intensional pattern behind the surface structure adjective + noun , depending on what exactly the adjectival property qualifies . |
| 6 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 7 | Can anyone give me a brief update on what exactly has been going on in my absence , i.e. who is being sold and why ? |
| 8 | So how we perform over coming months will have a profound affect on what ultimately happens to AEA . |
| 9 | They had tried out various ‘ templates ’ — all of them embellishments on what already existed — but none of them had shown the kind of delicacy required . |
| 10 | Ochirbat stated that the reforms were intended to " develop socialism into a humane democratic society " and as such were based on what already had been achieved and did not mean that the country " must go over to capitalism " . |
| 11 | Our critic on what else is on in London |
| 12 | Our critic on what else is on in London |
| 13 | Our critic on what else is on in London |
| 14 | Their truth , in brief , is dependent on what else is true . |
| 15 | Whether this attainment takes two years to acquire depends on what else is to be covered in Science , not its own intrinsic difficulty or depth . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ said Julia , ‘ it depends on what else you have to tell me . |
| 17 | when providing you know depending on what else happens that I can say that here 's a date and that individual will start at . |
| 18 | I said on what well he said it 's got ta be well cos Maggie said it 's too late I said no |
| 19 | He underlines Nithard 's insistence on what nowadays might be called line-management : he reveals that a manager 's problem in the Carolingian palace was the maintenance of good order and morale among the often unruly yet indispensable " crowd " of young noblemen who were deployed on a variety of tasks and errands , especially of a military sort . |
| 20 | Some have learned to let go and not to dwell on what simply can not be changed . |
| 21 | Adler 's study of eighty rape trials examined actual court procedure in detail , providing evidence on what actually happens rather than what should . |
| 22 | It is rare for counsel to be stopped from corss-examining on what actually did happen during the currency of an agreement , or addressing the court on this , even if such events were not reasonably foreseeable . |
| 23 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 24 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 25 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 26 | They wo n't send over the 2,000 word revelation on what really went on in the referee 's room at Lord 's , when the Texaco Trophy ball was changed , until BT fix the fault . |
| 27 | ‘ On what really happened at Profitis Ilias on the eleventh of November . |
| 28 | Pre-trial defence disclosure — this should focus the minds of the jury on what really matters in the case which they are trying by identifying the key issues before the trial . |
| 29 | The shops , launderette , barber 's and butcher 's — with their mesh grilles on the windows — are full of theories on what really happened . |
| 30 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |