Example sentences of "what [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , we need to know what the position is now , and where we want to be , so , a lot of the influence is going , what change the influence is going to bring about . |
| 2 | So Mr Chairman sorry to bring it up again but er I think it 's in line what this gentleman said er bearing in mind I think it is a fact that this is a reasonable theatre enjoyed by people from a very large catchment area could you please tell us what support the the er playhouse has had from the local authorities adjacent to Harlow . |
| 3 | He asked what support the authority had from GPs in promoting healthier living . |
| 4 | These meetings , in his opinion , are starting to assume the status of an industry forum , where ideas on such issues as what direction the industry should take are exchanged and discussed . |
| 5 | The direction and power of the smash is affected by when you hit the ball , what direction the ball 's already travelling , and how long you hold down the fire button ! |
| 6 | We undertook a longer-term analysis , to see what part the media played in the Conservative recovery . |
| 7 | What part the Jews play in that is n't my concern . ’ |
| 8 | Readability implies that a particular target readership has the experience — the visual , intellectual , and emotional experience — to identify the detail in pictures , to understand what is happening in pictures , and to have some understanding of what is happening ‘ beyond ’ the pictures ( atmosphere , psychological states , what is being demonstrated in an informative illustration ) — in other words , what part the pictures play in the total book , what they contribute . |
| 9 | I remember , too , wondering what part the imminence of its destruc-tion had in making paradise so sweet . |
| 10 | What part the laity could play in the Church and how far they felt alienated is for discussion later . |
| 11 | By what route the technique got into West Africa — or even whether it was independently devised there — can not be ascertained until we have discovered more sites of the first millennium AD , and earlier in West Africa . |
| 12 | They had moved their army south from Milfield yesterday , as soon as they were sure by what route the Scots were returning towards their own country , and chosen their position on the northern bank of the Glen water , a mile and more from its confluence with the Till . |
| 13 | erm it may depend on what experience the people had before they did the course . |
| 14 | This is what , this is what we 're looking for , we 're not thinking now particularly about either what recommendation they , the jury foreman makes , or what sentence the judge passes , the fact is that the truth or one would hope so , has been established . |
| 15 | The reader 's question of a book or an article should be what function the writing is able or unable to perform ? |
| 16 | They too must remember the many faces of fairness , and ask , in each case , what function the elected body serves , what they want to achieve ( punishing politicians , however deservedly , is an inappropriate answer ) and is it worth the upheaval ? |
| 17 | It is not clear what reliance the court placed on this point , which they described as ‘ an additional difficulty . ’ |
| 18 | It would then be possible to see what progress the Welsh Office and its various agencies are making towards the attainment of common goals . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what progress the Government have made in establishing a standard assessment procedure for home energy labelling . |
| 20 | They agreed to meet again in New Delhi on April 30 to consider an " appropriate response " depending on what progress the promised legislation had made . |
| 21 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 22 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ At this stage I ca n't give you any indication of what level the toll might be … it depends on the amount of interest from industry and commerce . ’ |
| 24 | I regret that I do not know at what level the exemption was first introduced . |
| 25 | So no piece of information is too trivial for consideration : monster otaku may collect the names of the various actors who wore the rubber suits in an episode of Ultraman ( a trashy humanoid vs monster Japanese TV show , still watched on endless reruns ) and who were conspicuously shorter than in other shows ; ‘ idol ’ otaku may discover what university the father of Seventies teenybop star Hikaru Nishida attended . |
| 26 | And what patience the man had , massaging his patients himself and rubbing them with liniment . |
| 27 | No one knows what effect the introduction of commercial fares will have on air travel in the former Soviet Union . |
| 28 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 29 | The swing to Labour , the increase in turnout and the sharp variations in results between authorities are all relevant when it comes to examining what effect the poll tax had on voting patterns . |
| 30 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |