Example sentences of "what the " in BNC.
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| 31 | What the protestant loyalists in effect seek to maintain is protestant — loyalist domination within a flexible territory , one which they feel justified in calling their land and ruling according to their conscience . |
| 32 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 33 | It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) . |
| 34 | But that , he wrote , is part of what the big glass itself will try to explore , with its notion of delay . |
| 35 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 36 | That is what the third part of the project means . |
| 37 | This is what the Goldbergs and McGrindles can not understand . |
| 38 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 39 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 40 | My arbitrary decision to hang up gauze and let draught play on it , but not my decision what the result of that play would be . |
| 41 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |
| 42 | But is that not what the mind is ? |
| 43 | So is that what the big glass is perhaps ? |
| 44 | What the Campaign is against is fake , poor quality imitation lagers being foisted on unsuspecting drinkers and passed off as being genuinely European or Australian . |
| 45 | Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be . |
| 46 | Technology suppliers to the British hotel and restaurant industry say that their products are often under-exploited , because too little thought has been given to what the systems are supposed to achieve and too low a priority is given to staff training . |
| 47 | How successful a computer installation is will depend largely on how clearly the customer and the supplier have defined , at the outset , what the system is supposed to achieve . |
| 48 | Potentially the customer holds the strong cards at this stage of the discussion : the hotelier or restaurateur knows what his business problems are and knows what the computer system is going to have to achieve — and the potential buyer , who has thought this through before the supplier appears , is more likely to end up with the right system . |
| 49 | Therefore the restaurant manager and other front-of-house staff must use their skill to talk enthusiastically and intelligently about the menu so that customers will appreciate what the chef is producing , and dare to be adventurous . |
| 50 | ‘ It 's what the guide-book said , my darling . |
| 51 | He was unable to observe , however — as he would have liked to do in his ever-observant way — just what the expression on Jilly Jonathan 's pretty face might have been . |
| 52 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 53 | I was telling you , was I not , that I was seeing with exactness what the English workman was doing while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 54 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 55 | ‘ Just what the chief constable said … . ’ the detective inspector lowered his head . |
| 56 | ‘ You know perfectly well what the problem is . |
| 57 | ‘ I left lecturing to try and see what the big wide world had to offer , but things never worked out . |
| 58 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 59 | Many inexperienced pilots do not even consider what the situation is going to be and only think about what is happening at that moment . |
| 60 | Do more circuit planning flights with the last five hundred feet of the altimeter covered and try to guess ahead of time what the height and position will be ( not in feet , but in terms of very high , about right , or rather low ) . |