Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes changing beliefs will bring spectacular results within days : you feel radiant with health , your boss offers you a promotion , you meet a new friend , you win some money , you feel a sense of inner peace — or whatever your new beliefs would attract into your life . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , Asheya or whatever your damn name is , I did say Steel City . |
| 3 | It 's an amazingly heady concoction made from a good old bottle of Gordon 's , or whatever your favourite make happens to be , sloshed all over the fruits of the sloe ( blackthorn ) bush . |
| 4 | The Christmas present gives him one more chance to convert the family to the alleged delights of fly fishing or English cathedrals or war games — or whatever his confounded passion is ( Oxfam shops , however , are very grateful to him ) . |
| 5 | It did n't matter how old she was , or what her personal wishes were , when her father saw what she had done to her hair he would undoubtedly try to murder her . |
| 6 | We do not know , however , how old Lettaford is ( the oldest longhouse dates only to the sixteenth century ) or what its earlier arrangements were . |
| 7 | The FO said : ‘ We 're not sure how long the review will take or what it all means . ’ |
| 8 | 6 The teacher should find out what his pupils are studying in other classes or what his mature students ' professions , jobs and intentions are , in order to integrate their language work ( cf Special Purposes English ) . |
| 9 | If she dislikes all outward signs of mourning , wanting people to wear their normal clothes and for the proceedings to be very quiet and simple , that should be for her to decide , but if she is of the old school , who prefer mourners to dress rather sombrely , you should try to persuade the rest of the family to do so whatever their personal opinions may be ; although care must be taken not to cause friction over this or anything else which may sour the family gathering . |
| 10 | And then what is interesting is that whatever their exact priority ( which may perhaps never be determined ) each of these kinds is very early indeed in human culture . |
| 11 | Lazaris suggests that whatever we most pride in ourselves gives a clue to our Ego 's fantasies . |
| 12 | Tell you what , it 's in better bloody nick than what my old E reg was . |
| 13 | Which one 's got the opposite and which which two sides which o |
| 14 | One suspects that both remarks testify to the dislike each woman provoked — despite their status as radical heroines — and which their current biographers share . |
| 15 | The habit into which the banks had slipped , and which their fresh approach to the business was designed to cure , was quite simple : losing money . |
| 16 | Dr Wyn came at lunchtime while Lydia was eating pheasant leg and wondering whether the goodness inherent in a broth made from pheasant carcase was sufficient to justify sneaking it , disguised as soupe bonne femme , on to the supper tray of an ailing vegetarian , and what her real motives were . |
| 17 | During the next few days , the new assistant in Birch Grove learns where each resident 's room is and what their individual needs are . |
| 18 | What he says they were intended for and what their actual use was to be , were , I suspect , quite different . ’ |
| 19 | Hence this type of learning could not be achieved by mere transient modulation of transmitter release ; new proteins were being made , and it was necessary to discover which they were and what their cellular functions were . |
| 20 | The first is to locate what is happening in the NHS to a broader ideological , economic , social and political context , and the second is to explain in some detail how the reforms have been implemented and what their current status is . |
| 21 | It was unclear why the Green Berets were in the hotel when the guerrillas attacked , whether the luxury hotel was their normal billet , and what their precise mission was supposed to be . |
| 22 | Amidst all the changes which took place in Eastern Europe during 1989 , the opening of the borders between East and West Germany on Nov. 9 , 1989 ( see p. 37025 ) was perhaps the most significant event to NATO members in that it confirmed that such changes , in particular the evolving relationship between the two Germanies , demanded an assessment of how NATO should respond and what its future role would be . |
| 23 | First of all ‘ society ’ , as distinct from the State , had to be isolated and analysed , and secondly an attempt had to be made at understanding the evolution of society , since only then would it be possible to understand under what circumstances the State evolved and what its historical significance was . |
| 24 | Or whether we 're using it as as a a mailshot reminding our customers of of how good we are and and what our improved facilities |
| 25 | In the " Lady Chatterley " case , Mr Justice Byrne directed that " as far as literary merit or other matters which can be considered under s4 are concerned , I think one has to have regard to what the author was trying to do , what his message may have been , and what his general scope was " . |
| 26 | However , he had not forgotten Selkirk 's death and , when we were alone , constantly speculated on how the Scotsman had been murdered and what his enigmatic rhyme could mean . |
| 27 | The task of redaction criticism is to determine how the editor ( redactor ) of a biblical book utilized his sources , what he omitted and what he added and what his particular bias was . |
| 28 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 29 | We saw in earlier chapters that there was a substantial disparity between Hitler 's actual expansionist aims and what his public image suggested he stood for . |
| 30 | For what you decide to do now will influence whether or not you turn up for work — and what your likely reception will be if you do . |