Example sentences of "what [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what this a doctor in this policy would have done in terms of delaying diagnosis in the lower risk group patients because clearly the other groups of patients are actually having more cystoscopies performed , but because it 's a retrospective analysis you can not say that you are advancing the diagnosis of er of more frequently occurring tumours . |
| 2 | It is difficult to see what such a procedure might be . |
| 3 | This firm decided that a computerised database system would possibly aid the operation , but they wanted independent advice on what such a decision would involve . |
| 4 | A crucial problem for phenomenalism of either sort is that few philosophers have attempted , and none have remotely succeeded , in showing what such a reduction would look like in detail . |
| 5 | The whole description is an embodiment of middle-class values , not only in its moralistic conception of what such a home should be , but even in its prose . |
| 6 | Ask yourself what such a story is about , what is the kernel of it . |
| 7 | It was always easier to say what such a school should not be , rather than what it should be . |
| 8 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 9 | In order to see what such a constraint might mean , we assume that the lump-sum transfers have to be employed in fixed proportions ( ) , and that there is no capital tax . |
| 10 | I have quoted these latter points at length because I can readily agree with them , and consider them important , but what I find politically weakening is the dichotomy between promoting socialist developments which do not depend on the existence of a socialist government and the stigmatised ‘ scheming ’ as to what such a government should do . |
| 11 | Think of what such a lump sum could mean to you , especially if — as for most people — your 65th birthday marked your retirement . |
| 12 | Probable misconceptions about a consultant supporter 's role have to be handled , credibility and relevance of one 's own experience need to be established in a non-assertive but authoritative way ; appreciation of the teachers ' professional expertise needs to be conveyed , together with an awareness of the difficulties that can prevent them from exercising it to its fullest extent ; and it needs to be spelt out clearly what such a group would be able to offer and what , together , one may reasonably hope to achieve — one must not raise hopes of cures for all ills . |
| 13 | It is not as though there always was a clear conception of what such a science would be like , and as though all that was lacking was success in producing it . |
| 14 | Is that what such a force would have done , acting at the behest of the Council of Ministers ? |
| 15 | ( The Double Helix , by James Watson , which tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA , is perhaps an example of what such a book might be like . ) |
| 16 | But there are limits to what such a institution can achieve . |
| 17 | Experience has shown that , although all of them are readers , few if any have noticed that the design of the documents they read is the product of a rational process , let alone developed an awareness of what such a process involves . |
| 18 | Yet faith rather than fact is what such a belief is built on . |
| 19 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 20 | What such a printer will not be able to handle are scalable fonts , that is the ability to choose a typeface and produce any size of type you require when you require it , nor will it be able to cope accurately with re-scaling object or draw-type graphics such as those produce by CAD or professional graphics applications . |