Example sentences of "[adv] what [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So that 's basically what the book is about .
2 But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there .
3 So that 's that 's basically what an isotope is , it 's a an element that has .
4 Where structural isomers are literally what the word suggests they have different structures different ways of linking the atoms together .
5 And then she knew , with the extra sense that her ancestors , the wolves , had possessed , she knew suddenly what the wrongness and the dry evil intelligence meant .
6 Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another .
7 For the rest , a great deal of what you have to do in the detective novel will be much what the writer of the blueprint story had to do , though in each department there will be modifications .
8 But this cautious , adroit , enigmatic leader seemed for long to be very much what the nation and the times required .
9 Fairfax then summarizes thoughtfully what the laibon has been saying .
10 A case of the contrast which may be helpful as a mnemonic is that between a symphonic overture ( ascriptive ) which is symphonic in and by itself , and an operatic overture ( associative ) which does not have the usual characteristics of opera ( not only is it purely orchestral , it is often played with the curtain not yet risen ) but which is , nonetheless , designated by a phrase where the property OPERATIC is associated with OVERTURE in order to describe sufficiently what the speaker wishes to identify .
11 The Bible was true , eternal , and everlasting , but for clear advice , directly applicable to the hurry and fever of modern life , he was indebted to Michelet , who said aloud what the Gospel only whispered .
12 One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like .
13 The words are inadequate : consilium makes it plain enough what the testator 's own wishes would be , but there is no trust unless he has made his intention that a legal obligation should arise equally clear .
14 I knew well enough what the trouble was .
15 The rest is merely what the court will also say when they hear .
16 So what a shame .
17 Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one .
18 However , general relativity claims to be only a partial theory , so what the singularity theorems really show is that there must have been a time in the very early universe when the universe was so small , that one could no longer ignore the small-scale effects of the other great partial theory of the twentieth century , quantum mechanics .
19 well even the cars going the other way are going faster so what the fuck
20 So what the pollen cells are doing are investing in mating success .
21 Erm the has gone , in the past , er I just wondered whether any of us were able to attend that , and if so what the outcome of that was .
22 So what the philosopher has to do is to look at these , all these various factors and begin to try and make people conscious of the inadequacies of the way in which they live , and of the new possibilities which are open to them , if they will only project their minds outside the established bounds .
23 So what the hell are you getting at ? ’ he asked quietly .
24 So what the hell is all this about ? ’
25 So what the hell , eh ? ’
26 So what the hell 's El Dorado Canyon ? ’
27 They 'll tell us to piss off , so what the hell ? ’
28 So what the hell was going on ?
29 He had said so , so what the hell had happened ?
30 But er so what the hell position he 's gon na be !
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