Example sentences of "[conj] what the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rather like the way you are coping with that boring old hang-up of who or what the narrator of a novel is supposed to be , ’ he began again . |
| 2 | The investigation asks specific questions on how the reader establishes who or what the text is about and what or how directives are issued by the text to enable this to happen . |
| 3 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 4 | We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) . |
| 5 | Never mind what the US government says or what the public thinks — that 's how it worked . |
| 6 | When she explained what the kidnappers were after and asked if he had any idea where or what the document might be , his reply was predictably negative . |
| 7 | Religion , or what the Chinese used to call " the mandate of heaven " , has not been entirely displaced , and in the Islamic world has even enjoyed a revival . |
| 8 | For under soft conventionalism our sample cases are all cases governed by law , and soft conventionalist judges deciding these cases would have no reason to defer to their beliefs about what the present legislature would do or what the will of the people is . |
| 9 | If we can recognise it then we know about it ( a Person ) , or how to tackle it with a standard solution ( a disease ) , or what the significance maybe ( an inflection in a chart ) . |
| 10 | I erm actually went back to the room to see erm what condition or what the child was was doing there . |
| 11 | Unless its practices are to arise totally spontaneously out of the ‘ innate ’ qualities of the new media , it is hard to see how this is to occur or what the music will be like . |
| 12 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 13 | There had n't been time on the way up to ask him what the results of the tests had been or what the union had consequently decided . |
| 14 | In analysing group behaviour we need to distinguish between the task or what the group is doing ( its content ) and the interactions between members ( the process ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know whether it 's a comedy or a satire , or what the hell it is , ’ he said . |
| 16 | So is he to be he does n't know whether to just carry on or to put a stop to it now or what the hell to do |
| 17 | Patients are often embarrassed or hesitant to describe in detail why they have difficulty evacuating their bowels or what the sensation is like before an incontinent episode . |
| 18 | In any case it is not easy to be sure about how an illness will progress or what the outcome of a treatment will be . |
| 19 | But if someone asked me what the " oldest tree in the park " meant , or what " oak " meant , or what the meaning of the sentence as a whole was , I would have to explain to him the meaning of these expressions with the help of some other expressions which he could understand . |
| 20 | But tennis players do n't seem to know where they are or what the weather is like . |
| 21 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |
| 22 | Title page , which specifies the title , author(s) , for whom or what the report is submitted , date , department or place of origin . |
| 23 | She made that quite clear : it was a triumphal return , although what the triumph was , was not vouchsafed . |
| 24 | The shape seemed to be looking through a book , although what the book was Henry could not tell . |
| 25 | It maintains that what the sceptic takes to be his strength is in fact his weakness . |
| 26 | There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with . |
| 27 | Most ethical intuitionists came to think that what the doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy established was not so much that good is indefinable as that ethical expressions are either indefinable or only satisfactorily definable in terms which involve some other distinctively ethical expression . |
| 28 | He said that what the Faculty was proposing was really none of the IoT 's business and he objected strongly to its interference . |
| 29 | In primarily transactional language we assume that what the speaker ( or writer ) has primarily in mind is the efficient transference of information . |
| 30 | But this misses Grice 's essential insight , namely that what the speaker means by U is not necessarily closely related to the meaning of 0 at all . |