Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
| 2 | That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have . |
| 3 | But honestly , Folly , I would n't dream of blackmailing them or whatever the old bat thinks I 'm going to do . |
| 4 | Just spent 24 hours on a bus with the dashboard covered in St Christophers or whatever the local version hereabouts is . |
| 5 | If we take the view that pragmatics is concerned only with grammatically encoded aspects of context ( see definition ( 8 ) above ) , then we might propose a tidy division of labour between pragmatic and sociolinguistic accounts of honorifics : pragmatics would be concerned with the meaning of honorifics ( e.g. with the specification that V encodes that the addressee is socially distant or superior ) , while sociolinguistics would be concerned with the detailed recipes for usage of such items ( e.g. the specification that amongst some segment of the speech community , V is used to aunts , uncles , teachers and so on , or whatever the local facts are ) . |
| 6 | The optimistic , structuring of an art form until it appears to be on tiptoe in defiance and compliance with gravity … or whatever the dominant forcefield may be . |
| 7 | Visual information and not just , you know , kids and or whatever the popular press thinks you are . |
| 8 | Yeah okay I mean this is all what these schemes or what the current school of thought is . |
| 9 | The twelve environment ministers of the European Community have agreed that market forces can and should be used to environmental ends , but they failed to decide on the measures to be used or what the environmental ends should be . |
| 10 | The usual way of finding out what sort of Christmas the trade had , or what the high street thinks of the year just finished , is to do a ring round of booksellers and publishers and then report the opinions thus canvassed . |
| 11 | What the High Court or what the local authority have to consider is how do we protect the welfare of those children ? |
| 12 | He realized , suddenly , he did n't want to know who or what the little boy was . |
| 13 | ‘ Once I dealt with every newspaper and broadcasting medium in the country , ’ he says , ‘ now I walk in fear of the Hartlepool Mail , or what The Northern Echo will make of me . ’ |
| 14 | I FIND a lot of anxiety among people about the dividing lines between the seasons of the year , or what the French call pre-Mistral tension . |
| 15 | This is so whatever the formal or legal scope of the institution . |
| 16 | France , as he put it , was not fighting for selfish interests but was defending a vital area against communist infiltration and control and , to underline the point , Schuman emphasized that , since the Second World War , France had definitely abandoned colonialism ; although what the new policy of the French Union amounted to remained to be seen — and understood . |
| 17 | I am not sure that what the right hon. Gentleman says is true . |
| 18 | His view is that what the Soviet Union has in small quantities is as good as the technology of the West , but that the country lacks the ability to turn out production volumes . |
| 19 | It therefore seems probable that what the early personality studies of living creative subjects had revealed was their tendency to the schizoidness of which Bleuler writes , and which would now be referred to as ‘ schizotypy ’ . |
| 20 | The failure of the so-called low-cost housing scheme to meet the needs of the poor has led one Indian expert to say that what the poor need is not low-cost housing but no-cost housing . |
| 21 | Mr. Speaker : I am sure that what the Hon. Member has said has been carefully noted by members on the Government Front Bench . |
| 22 | Apart from what the customer may or may not find with the price of beer , is it not the case that what the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) has described would not have taken place if the beer orders had not been passed by the House ? |
| 23 | This meant that what the social scientist was doing in building up a picture of the political society was systematizing people 's conscious perceptions into a system . |
| 24 | Although it was probably inevitable that whatever the political flavour of the government of the day some form of national pattern of cash limits would have had to applied to expenditure on public sector higher education , 4 the practical effects of this political decision turned out to be both complex and capricious , and had two important consequences . |
| 25 | Opponents of membership , such as the Prime Minister , argue that whatever the right level of entry it is at least necessary to reduce inflation to the European average of roughly 3-4 per cent . |
| 26 | Make up your mind that whatever the short-term temptations may be , you will never deviate from the highest standards of honour . |
| 27 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 28 | Ultimately , however , what may be needed is a set of proper procedural guides and guarantees which would ensure that whatever the legal rules may be , they are observed in practice 66 |
| 29 | It can reasonably be anticipated that whatever the addictive disease there will be an appropriate or near-appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 30 | In Ghani v. Jones ( C.A. , 1970 ) Lord Denning suggested ( obiter ) that whatever the initial justification for the investigation , if the police happen on evidence of a totally unrelated offence , it might be reasonable to seize it , taking into account such factors as : ( a ) the fact that the material was the fruit of crime , the instrument by which the crime was committed or otherwise material evidence ; ( b ) the seriousness of the crime ( c ) the unreasonableness of the refusal to hand over the evidence . |