Example sentences of "what [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The study went on to estimate what fuels would have been used in electricity generation if there had been no nuclear power , concluding that the world 1987 total of 1660,800 million kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by nuclear power had displaced 1,790 million barrels of oil , 185 million tonnes of coal and 3,103,000 million cubic feet of natural gas , and had meant the avoidance of purchases of OPEC oil to the value of US$30,700 million in that year alone . |
| 32 | Because we 're right we 're we , we 're , we 're better people as a result , so th th there 's a tendency just as in individuals can get proud and even arrogant and self-satisfied , so does the tendency for groups to get proud , arrogant and self-satisfied because and what fuels this group erm feeling is narcissism . |
| 33 | What fuels may be used in thermal power stations ? |
| 34 | Yeah , what fuels need thermal power stations ? |
| 35 | Big family too and we all know what inroads a big family makes . |
| 36 | ‘ What antagonism ? ’ she flared . |
| 37 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 38 | The need for a radical change of outlook has also been stressed by Bowen ( 1979 ) who sees progress in this direction being made by a mixture of basic and applied work by both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary endeavour diminishing what Butzer ( 1975a ) saw as particularism — the tendency for individual specialists or groups to regard their own field as the cornerstone for others . |
| 39 | What phenomena can be mapped from such imagery ? |
| 40 | What requests based on these rules and expectations can I reasonably make ? |
| 41 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 42 | Paul Giller and Helena Twomey , of the Department of Zoology at University College , Cork , have been awarded a grant by the British Ecological Society to try to find out what damage this water-based equivalent of a hurricane can do , and how quickly river life returns to normal . |
| 43 | It is amazing what damage a few of these can do to your plants . |
| 44 | What damage are tourists doing to the scene shown in the photograph ? |
| 45 | What damage ? |
| 46 | What I would like to know is : what damage is the soot doing to my fish and do I have just cause to go to the council to get something done about it ? |
| 47 | What damage had been done ? |
| 48 | ‘ I could n't even have a separation because I know what damage that does to the children and I would never , never , never break up the home for their sake . ’ |
| 49 | I 've found that my perception of acting and movie-making has changed drastically since I hung up my addiction , and I 've finally realized what damage I was doing to my career . |
| 50 | — Who they are — What damage they do — How they operate — Why they have to be controlled — The law — Some products — How to evaluate the products |
| 51 | He moved even before the singing stopped , rolling into the thick rye stalks where , without bothering to see what damage his shot had done , he began reloading . |
| 52 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |
| 53 | A supervisor can tap such first-hand knowledge without wasting time studying Ordnance Survey maps or other records , while the competent field man is in a position to handle a problem immediately in an emergency without having to research the questions of where a pollution may have come from , where it will go , or what damage it might do . |
| 54 | It was angled so that only the captain could see it and Jezrael had no knowledge of what it showed , only her own innate fear of what damage it might cause . |
| 55 | Both of them knew what damage these Hessian boots and the expensive felt hat could do to those scabbed wooden clogs and the coarse neckerchief . |
| 56 | Ellwood could n't tell what damage he was doing , and could n't stop doing it . |
| 57 | ‘ God knows what damage she 'll do to herself coming back so soon . |
| 58 | Christine did n't wait to see what damage she 'd caused . |
| 59 | Now this long metal rod with the knob on the end which is doing God knows what damage to my pelvis is the gear-lever . |
| 60 | The eyes must not linger to examine what damage has been caused . |