Example sentences of "and what the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Terry to come along because one of the things I tho I tho I hope we might get round to spending a few minutes on was about Alan 's raised it before about records coming in er , and what the state of the game is in records coming into us and how we 're transferring that information , or not transferring that information onto dep onto department 's national curriculum er material |
| 2 | And at the same time you 've got ta be able to talk to the managing director and have lunch with him and talk about what was on television and what the state of the country is and the economic situation and everything , you know . |
| 3 | It appears , at times that there is an unbridgeable gap between what contemporary business uses and what the school does . |
| 4 | There is an irony in the way this issue was raised by a housemaster reflecting upon his school and what the school should be doing for children : |
| 5 | And what the devil , Kee is n't without sexual experience after all : she has a past . |
| 6 | Fool , she should have spoken to Steve , asked him where he was and what the devil he thought he and Maria Luisa were playing at . |
| 7 | The development officers themselves became concerned about the low level of statutory services in their areas , and concluded that the Home Support Project might have to provide considerable input to fill the gap between what statutory services could provide and what the dementia sufferer might need in order to remain at home . |
| 8 | ‘ And what the plague , ’ demanded Rhodri Parry irritably , grasping her arm as they crossed towards the guesthouse doorway , ‘ did you want with starting such a frantic legal bother , without a word of warning to me , without a hint of your purpose ? |
| 9 | Merely by shutting his door if it was open , North would add to the intrigue of meetings : ‘ and when the meeting was over , I still could n't understand why the door was shut and what the intrigue was ’ said a visiting official , puzzled ; ‘ it was in my mind 's eye a social call . ’ |
| 10 | typically they 're very used to the mainframe environment and what the mainframe environment offers . |
| 11 | I , I , I take all the planning and what the officer is saying , but I mean do n't you think it makes more sense from our point of view than we realize . |
| 12 | Now , the relationship between how much labour there is , how much it 's actually going to cost with labour and plant to do something , and what the bill rate is can be anything . |
| 13 | The effects of retirement can only be understood on an individual basis , its significance depending upon a personal interpretation of the value and importance of work , and what the individual wants and expects from the rest of his or her life . |
| 14 | This practice , which is much more common in the United States , has acquired its own descriptive term , ‘ defensive medicine ’ , a term suggestive of the notion that an unnecessary and destructive tension exists between what the doctor thinks is good medicine and what the law requires of him . |
| 15 | Er and what the law says is if you change your mind I 'm afraid the law does n't entitle you to anything at all . |
| 16 | What is reasonable and what the law should forbid are not necessarily the same . |
| 17 | Only occasionally was there an enormous difference between what the care manager thought a person needed and what the person wanted in the pilot study . |
| 18 | This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said . |
| 19 | There must be careful recording of the interview and what the child says , whether or not there is a video recording . |
| 20 | It is now beginning to be argued by feminists that in order to deal with pornography and what the phenomenon reveals , we have first to understand it , understand , that is , the meaning and function of fantasy for both men and women , and what effects it has on the rest of one 's life ( see Wilson , 1983 for a summary of this discussion , and also Carter , 1979 ; Linden et al. , 1982 ; Midgley and Hughes , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | In her nacreous haze , Chesarynth was trying to puzzle out who the speakers were and what the boy Karel whoever he was — had done to raise such spikes of hatred in the old woman 's tone . |
| 22 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 23 | The supernatural is constantly present , and what the West considers in the realm of the paranormal the Indonesians have raised to a fine art ; the islands seethe with sorcerers , healers , sages and mystics . |
| 24 | Access Opinions Ltd. asked a number of Labour Members for their views on taxation and what the Chancellor should do in the Budget . |
| 25 | Careful and accurate description of the problems is necessary before deciding what help is appropriate and what the patient needs to do to overcome his difficulties . |
| 26 | Explain what is to happen and what the patient needs to do . |
| 27 | For example , in an article aimed at secondary headteachers , Ross ( 1987 ) identifies huge shortfalls between the aims described in the National Criteria for the GCSE art and design and music examinations , and what the assessment objectives prescribe should be looked for in these subjects : |
| 28 | I , I , I notice from the schedule that , I mean a tremendous difference in cost per person if you just add , divided the people into , which suggest the way you 're being work out on a basis of individual needs , and what the carer provides . |
| 29 | should carry an advert saying that in fact this will take place , erm and what the procedure is , I think and also to advertise if possible in local shops that sort of thing because that is the only way we 're going to get |
| 30 | But we should distinguish at least between the meaning of an utterance and what the utterer meant by it . |