Example sentences of "and what the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I will make a personal attack on you the day after to-morrow , when the House will be full , and I will tell you beforehand what I 'm going to say and what the right come-back is for you to score off me . |
| 2 | How can two people have a management consultant really know what 's going on and what the right sort of people to have for er supplementing the th the police authority are ? |
| 3 | Anthony King , in his seminal article on overload , published in 1975 , commented on ‘ the increasing difficulty that both major political parties seem to have in carrying out their election manifestos ’ and cast his mind back thirty years to find the standard from which subsequent administrations had fallen : ‘ The fit between what the Labour Party said it would do in 1945 and what the Labour Government actually achieved between 1945 and 1951 is astonishingly close . |
| 4 | He and Maltote quarrelled about what was genuine fur , and what the jewelled embroidered motifs and the bright hues on the cloaks of some retainers really signified . |
| 5 | The ‘ people like us ’ factor will ensure that , the greater the compatibility between what you are apparently conveying in your talk and what the other person values , the better the outcome . |
| 6 | It is quite often the case that a speaker will treat what he was talking about in his last contribution as the most salient elements and what the other speaker talked about , though more recent , as less salient . |
| 7 | And what the other bit of information you got any odd snippets of information you 've got written down there . |
| 8 | Well fortunately the Spanish were even more incompetent than he was and what the Spanish commander , instead of rubbing his hands at the prospect of er the damage they were about to wreak , he discovered that they had the wrong calibre shells for their guns and Roosevelt and the Rough Riders overran the Spanish guns a and Teddy Roosevelt became a war hero and on the strength of becoming a war hero , he become vice president of the United States , got the vice presidential nomination and in good American fashion the president was shot er by an assassin er and Teddy Roosevelt became president , so there you are , there 's a there 's a career plan for you to er to think about . |
| 9 | And what the female mimic does is it swims in and instead of releasing eggs , which is what the resident male expects , they release vast clouds of sperm and of course fertilize some of the eggs . |
| 10 | He made a similar point about a rise in salary for municipal employees : there was no possibility of seriously debating that unless the local Assembly knew what they might otherwise spend the money on , and what the total budget for the municipalities was — and information on both points was not forthcoming . |
| 11 | Of course the ‘ Units ’ are bought by investors , and these units are priced according to how many are in existence and what the total value of the trusts ' net asset holdings are ( e.g. £50m net assets and 5m units means each unit is priced at £10 ) . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) The terms of reference must be defined in advance to ensure that the author and his boss or client are agreed on what is being studied and what the final report should cover . |
| 13 | A closer interpretation is necessary in family work , with the counsellor focusing on the statement rather than passing it off or trying to pretend that it was not said , seeking to analyse and ascertain what exactly was being said , why is was said , and what the real message might be . |
| 14 | To get a 5% or 10% saving the hotel will need to know its exact electricity consumption pattern and what the overall result of each tariff profile on offer will be . |
| 15 | It is part of a drive towards ‘ ability ’ in computer systems , a belated acknowledgement that designers should address not just what the system should do but also who will use it , how frequently , what tasks they must perform , what environment it will be used in ( eg quiet or noisy , light or dark ) , and what the critical success factors are ( eg speed or accuracy ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Just on the shall we say off-chance I asked what the situation was regarding additional lines between Norwich and Crawley as between Stansted Norwich and Crawley to see if there was anything under way and what the approximate cost would be because erm well I know there 's more D D I facilities now . |
| 18 | Eschewing the Western suit and tie and flamboyant clothes from Hong Kong , the new line features the standard Mao suit and what the official New China News Agency describes as ‘ Lenin 's small V-neck look ’ . |
| 19 | Presentation of speakers and occasions to present the case are highlights of such work , but around all such events the public relations officer has an hourly job of relating to the media what is happening in the argument and what the various leaders are saying and thinking . |
| 20 | It is anticipated that this research , when complete will add to our understanding of the problems of teacher supply and what the possible effects of alternative policies might be . |
| 21 | The child must be fully aware of what he is consenting to and what the possible consequences may be . |
| 22 | Second , in redistributive studies there is a wide gulf between the appropriate cordon bleu ( theoretical ) recipe and what the empirical short-order cook is forced to do in practice if any sort of meal is to be forthcoming within a reasonable time period . |
| 23 | Instead , she argues for a socialization theory which sees the individual as ‘ a function of what people around her expect her to be , and what the over-all situation in which she is acting implies that she is ’ ( 1973 : 395 ) . |
| 24 | In other words , the dispute between system and unit is a formal dispute which can be filled out according to what is claimed to be the relevant system and what the relevant unit . |
| 25 | What the actual , how many cases were written and what the estimated C C S A is , commission credit sum assured , I promise you , you will get to know that very quickly , because that 's the basis on which you get paid . |
| 26 | It is to the shame of this Tory government that er er our senior citizens have to struggle to feed and clothe themselves and to try to keep warm , and as inadequate pensions that they receive from this government if you compare the way in the other European countries what they get and what the British government gives to our old age pensioners , our senior citizens they 're more they 're worse off than actually second class citizens . |
| 27 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 28 | But to ascertain what the Algerian people wanted and what the French people would accept was bound to be a gradual process . |
| 29 | Well the French revolution occurred and what the French revolution did , it transferred hus a huge assets to the , to the , the er government , it allowed conscription , a people 's army and it also turned the biggest country in Europe er biggest with the exception of , of Tsarist Russia , er into a , a war state . |
| 30 | What they think of current provision and what the main gaps are , both now and in the future , and the outcome will be a five year advice development strategy , which will be publishing to guide both N C V O and other providers and funders . |