Example sentences of "what the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the diffident schoolboy has lost is the confidence that his beliefs are tracking the truth ; he takes it that , although he does believe that p , it is at least as probable that he is wrong as that he is right . |
| 2 | So appraisal has , or should have nothing to do with what the tabloid press likes to call ‘ weeding out ’ . |
| 3 | We 'll see what the cardiothoracic guy has to say . ’ |
| 4 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 5 | This is what the budgetary evidence of Eden and Davies revealed , and was the context for the Speenhamland experiment in supplementing wages from the poor rate . |
| 6 | I forget now what the simulated time factor was — I think twenty years — but the upshot was that three-quarters of the mice developed lung cancer and died . |
| 7 | And erm I had lots of jobs there , what the cruel job there really in the meantime , he was very pleased with my work , so he got another land girl , it was cheap labour . |
| 8 | No matter what the individual records might be like in themselves , the ten studio albums , two live LPs and two compilations represent a major body of work . |
| 9 | Meeting their quota , their too-small-for-comfort quota , always with generosity , understanding and compassion , understanding as a group what the individual woman knows by instinct , that this child , by existing , keeps that other child out . |
| 10 | What the following thrillers have in common is that each is a rattling good read , and together they are the cream ( 1939 , as will be seen , being a particularly creamy year ) of their genre , leading you on to other delights . |
| 11 | It shows how many items of the product ought to be on the shelf ; how many are still in the stock room ; the minimum number that the store is supposed to be carrying ; whether fresh ones have been ordered if stocks are too low ; what the current price is ; and whether that price is the Kmart standard , or has been lowered to beat local competitors . |
| 12 | Hummingbird 's performance , however , being close to what the current PA-RISC mid-range offers , probably implies HP will have to boost the ratings on its mid and high-end machines . |
| 13 | The principals would change depending on what the current manager could afford . |
| 14 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 15 | And whatever w the current , what the current is when it leaves . |
| 16 | Erm work out what the current is when it leaves . |
| 17 | While it is not easy to establish as an empirical matter what the current income-wealth distribution is , even if it could be established , the question of what degree of inequality should be the trigger for government policy remains . |
| 18 | Yeah okay I mean this is all what these schemes or what the current school of thought is . |
| 19 | With the report erm , I have circulated copies to each of the group 's spokesmen , there was a couple of charts which indicate what the current situation is with er , spending as against S S A , and if the Home Office move to er , a fir what they call a fire station based S S A , what the position would be . |
| 20 | No but I say I think , you know i is , it may be well worthwhile us carrying around leaflets which gives an idea of what the current limits are but yeah we 'll , we 'll find out about that . |
| 21 | Can you tell me what the current position is as you understand it |
| 22 | Changes in social mores are reflected in the current definition of family of black sheep , and we have n't asked what the current erm , definition of family of black sheep is . |
| 23 | Even the genial Binkie Beaumont was prepared to pay him a third of what the experienced Emlyn Williams knew he was worth and could get . |
| 24 | What the experienced communicator recognises is that the effectiveness of what is said is as dependent upon how it is said and perceptions and impressions others have of the person presenting the argument as it is upon the quality of argument itself . |
| 25 | By the end of this week we shall know what the Labour Party no longer stands for , such as unilateral nuclear disarmament and full-scale nationalisation ; but what , in essence , does it stand for ? |
| 26 | But to suppose that this picture bears the faintest resemblance to what the Labour leadership wants betrays something like paranoia cubed . |
| 27 | That 's what the Labour Party has always said . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps that is what the Labour Party says , but it is not how the Labour Party behaves . |
| 29 | With Socialism everywhere in rout or retreat , it is unclear what the Labour Party stands for . |
| 30 | Anthony King , in his seminal article on overload , published in 1975 , commented on ‘ the increasing difficulty that both major political parties seem to have in carrying out their election manifestos ’ and cast his mind back thirty years to find the standard from which subsequent administrations had fallen : ‘ The fit between what the Labour Party said it would do in 1945 and what the Labour Government actually achieved between 1945 and 1951 is astonishingly close . |