Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro , or rather what we should call a judicial separation , i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct ; but a divorce in the modern sense , which allows the parties to marry again , is not recognized by the medieval church in the case of any marriage which is originally valid . |
| 2 | Nurseries , or rather what we used to call Market Gardens , where strawberries , soft fruit and vegetables are grown , are able to rest areas between crops and take full advantage of the scratching hen , who manures evenly as she works . |
| 3 | Before some of you scoff at the obscurity of such a subject , let me tell you what the preacher meant ( or rather what I think the preacher meant ) by it . |
| 4 | The aircraft had a peculiar motion , rather like a small boat in a heavy ocean swell , or rather what I imagined that must feel like , never having been out on the open sea in a small boat . |
| 5 | As we have seen previously , Bukharin distinguished between arithmetical sums and what he called ‘ real aggregates ’ , or perhaps what we might call totalities . |
| 6 | More or less what we 've just talked about . |
| 7 | Erm it is always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset . |
| 8 | Erm it has always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system , will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset . |
| 9 | Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ? |
| 10 | Yeah that 's more or less what she was |
| 11 | He was probably spoilt by his sisters , and and got more or less what he wanted as a child , and |
| 12 | More or less what I asked personal point of view that er one is afraid that Europe , as it is , is rather limited . |
| 13 | That 's more or less what it said in my book except erm they need to be shaded from early morning sun if there 's been a frost . |
| 14 | It 's got you need to write a hundred words or less what you want to be older and plans for the future . |
| 15 | At first it was not entirely clear where the word ‘ Hooligan ’ had sprung from — and it remains unclear to this day — or exactly what it meant , other than some kind of novel reference to street violence and ruffianism . |
| 16 | The frogs could hear them although they did n't know what they meant or even what they were . |
| 17 | Neither the instructors nor the other students knew anyone 's real name , or even what they were giving as their name . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , after all that , the only bone of contention is the supposed ‘ frisson of excitement ’ which the anonymous mole declares is impossible to find and seeks help , as certain members of the department ‘ do n't know where to look , or even what we are looking for ’ . |
| 19 | I knew nothing about the Ober Gabelhornr 's history or the difficulty of the route , or even what it looked like . |
| 20 | Literary criticism has often taken precisely this assumption as its starting point , and has presumed that a literary text is not necessarily saying what it intends to say or even what it appears to say — hence the need for critical interpretation . |
| 21 | My concern is with the nature of his reputation , and the striking extent to which both his admirers and his detractors are unable to agree on what kind of writer Derrida is , or even what he is actually saying . |
| 22 | In the days when she had first known him she had wondered idly whether she might see Rupert round here , ‘ going in ’ or ‘ coming out ’ , though she was not clear when this might be expected or even what he might have been doing . |
| 23 | That 's what I th or well what I was just about to suggest . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ Claire carried on , filling in the silence , ‘ I ca n't tell you how old this man is , or precisely what he looks like , but I can tell you that he 's managed to turn your world upside-down . |
| 25 | I know also that some Conservatives that feel that perhaps what I 've laid before you this afternoon has some credence . |
| 26 | whatever it pays if it 's , if it 's better will pay more than obviously what you 're gon na get from either or . |
| 27 | I do n't I do n't believe it is erm at the mo well earlier this week a report was published by the National Commission on Education which was er an independent erm Commission that was set up erm and they they 've said that basically what we need to be doing is t if we 're trying to raise standards is to keep the idea of having an all graduate profess profession followed up by high quality for train training for teachers once they 've actually started work . |
| 28 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 29 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 30 | It is not known who sent the instructions , nor exactly what they were . |