Example sentences of "[conj] what [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so |
| 2 | A sense of balance is lost : one ca n't tell what is important or what really matters . |
| 3 | We have also suggested that they all conceive of God as both transcendent and immanent — transcendent in the sense that what fundamentally limits reality does not apply to Him , immanent in that this lack of limitation is what makes possible a universal presence . |
| 4 | And yet tonight , in the quiet of this room , I find that what really remains with me from this first day 's travel is not Salisbury Cathedral , nor any of the other charming sights of this city , but rather that marvellous view encountered this morning of the rolling English countryside . |
| 5 | We may feel today that things might have been better planned , and that it is a great pity that what now looks like the decisive contribution of England to world history should have been carried through with so much muddle and mess . |
| 6 | We know however that what actually happens is that the anxiety only ever reaches a certain level and then levels off , forming a plateau . |
| 7 | Identifying references to qualities can be made only via the latter 's exemplifying instances and the thesis that what actually exists can be described simply in terms of qualities and relations between qualities , can not be consistently defended . |
| 8 | Their sad reasoning goes that at least they are noticed when hit , and this is better than what otherwise feels like oblivion . |
| 9 | Both The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin , White Masks close with affirmations made in the knowledge of exactly what threatens them — that being , after all , what both books are about , and what powerfully pre-empts the charge of humanist sentimentality : ‘ I can already see a white man and a black man hand in hand ’ ( Black Skin , 222 ) . |
| 10 | A hundred and seventy or so girls from all over Oxfordshire gathered at Iffley Road this afternoon to learn about scrummaging … rucking and what exactly constitutes a forward pass . |
| 11 | If this is true of classes , why should it not also be true of other interest groups , and what ultimately differentiates this from pluralism ? |
| 12 | The raw materials that go in at the top are iron ore , limestone and What else goes in there ? |
| 13 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 14 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 15 | You do n't know what 's gone on and what still goes on between G.P. and me , she seemed to say . |
| 16 | For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively . |
| 17 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 18 | Whatever the nurse staffing arrangements , each one needs to know what the patient has been told and what currently appears to be understood . |
| 19 | Thus the only relevant facts he does not know are what period the judiciary have recommended as the tariff , and what further comments the judges have made which will affect the Secretary of State 's decision on the tariff . |
| 20 | And what usually goes missing ? |
| 21 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 22 | The cases where there is the most sustained coverage are acquittals and yet obtaining an acquittal for this group of offences is a comparatively rare phenomenon , both as a proportion of cases reported in newspapers and what actually happens in the court . |
| 23 | Deem herself acknowledges that the match between policy decisions made at one level of government and what actually happens in the classroom may be less than perfect . |
| 24 | [ W ] hat a Constitution says is one thing , and what actually happens in practice may be quite another . |
| 25 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 26 | At one point we read Pip 's story and what actually happens to him that day and then the older Pip reflects on the younger Pip 's actions . |
| 27 | And what actually happens is , there 's a description of it in there , and I 'm going to give you some more literature for you to peruse and get used to it , and you 'll actually going to be working very closely with your management on this , right , is that you will record all your activity every week . |
| 28 | Every self-respecting ideology develops its own complex defence mechanisms which cunningly conceal , or paper over , the glaring discrepancies and inconsistences which inevitably arise between what ought to happen and what actually does . |
| 29 | The research will investigate the extent to which such claims are true , and what actually changes when management takes over . |
| 30 | And what really bothers me is when people say they ca n't do anything about it . |