Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh det] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This drop was overcome by means of an inclined plane , up and down which the loaded barges were carried on trolleys . |
| 2 | ‘ The chief arms left me ’ , he wrote in the Eikon Basilike , ‘ were those only which the ancient Christians were wont to use against their persecutors , prayers and tears . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So whatever the numerical distribution of jobs or of unemployment , the tentacles of control over those jobs , and over the functioning of the economy as a whole , in the main lead back — if they stay within Britain at all — to London . |
| 5 | That shows clearly enough what the Scottish Protestants feared . |
| 6 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So what the fucking hell are you doing here apologizing for apologizing for a drug . |
| 9 | ‘ That should change , but it is only what the Japanese have been successfully doing for years . ’ |
| 10 | The younger actor wanted to rehearse one particular gruelling scene over and over which the ailing Olivier endured until , too ill to go on , he had to give up , complaining , ‘ Why ca n't the boy just act ? |
| 11 | Thus what the emerging national data seem to confirm is the Leeds data 's sense of a pervasive incongruence in classroom strategies between pedagogic style and mode of organization . |
| 12 | " Just what the bloody hell do you think you 're playing at ? " |
| 13 | Student rugby , with its adventure , enthusiasm and romance , is just what the Irish love . |
| 14 | The critic 's skill is to identify for each and every work just what the various priorities are , and apply those criteria uniformly to every version . |
| 15 | So it 's vital to understand just what the right weight is , and how to feed a bird to keep it fit but well fed . |
| 16 | ‘ Just what the chief constable said … . ’ the detective inspector lowered his head . |
| 17 | But in ( 5 ) there is no " and then " sense ; and here seems to mean just what the standard truth table for & would have it mean — namely that the whole is true just in case both conjuncts are true ; hence the reversal of the conjuncts in ( 7 ) does not affect the conceptual import at all . |
| 18 | And I hope that , er , you know , this , all this data will be published , and people will be able to see just what the complete data is . |
| 19 | Speaking of that , I wonder just what the hon. Gentleman had in mind when he tabled this question . |
| 20 | Just what the fucking do you think you 're doing ? |
| 21 | This judge decides McLoughlin by employing his own moral convictions , which is just what the popular ideal abhors . |
| 22 | ‘ No , but what I mean is , if they were asked to make other arrangements , making other arrangements is just what the stinking Editor would call it . ’ |
| 23 | It was left to Rachel Carson to bring to the attention of a wider public just what the unintended consequences might be . |
| 24 | Apparently topics like these are just what the teenage television-viewing public want . |
| 25 | In the fiercely free enterprise USA , home ownership , as in the UK , is the mark of responsible citizenship , and home ownership is just what the 12 people living in the clapboard house have achieved . |
| 26 | If you are , that is not what the technical term repression means in psychoanalysis . |
| 27 | That is not what the right hon. Gentleman said to Walden . |
| 28 | ‘ So you see , as often as not the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth . |
| 29 | The left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth . |
| 30 | The problem is your anger , not what the other person did . ) |