Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This presented a delicate problem , another of the house guests being also without his valet , raising the question as to which guest should be allocated the butler as valet and who the footman .
2 Much depended in the last resort , too , on the power with which the negotiators went to the negotiating table , what goodwill there was between parties and what the strength of the bargaining power was .
3 The left was divided and split about tactics and what the war should achieve .
4 No tales about defectors and what the Brits got up to in the Cold War .
5 Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant .
6 ‘ All the lads at Spurs talk about Gazza and what a great player he is .
7 It 's about pr p provision for migration and what the policy should be for that .
8 Each day of the dispute , at 7:45 am , amicable banter among a handful of pickets and what the union jokingly calls its ‘ gallery ’ stops .
9 Heterosexuals will decide what is the promotion of homosexuality and what a family is . '
10 The 200-year-old mansion was once the home of the Balfours of Balbirnie and them the headquarters of the GDC .
11 It was very embarrassing because she talked about the pain and degradation of sex and what a trap her marriage was .
12 There 's lots of music and its a good night out for families .
13 turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header .
14 Figure 5.19 shows the most important sources of energy and their origins-the Sun , the Earth and the Moon .
15 Fixed-charge debentures specify certain specific assets that are chargeable as security and which the company is not permitted to dispose of ; in the event of default these assets are sold and the proceeds used to repay the debenture-holders .
16 ‘ For people like McQuaid and myself the war was the best part of our lives .
17 ‘ Yes , think about Blackbeard and what a cold-blooded character he is , and a foreign one at that .
18 It is now beginning to be argued by feminists that in order to deal with pornography and what the phenomenon reveals , we have first to understand it , understand , that is , the meaning and function of fantasy for both men and women , and what effects it has on the rest of one 's life ( see Wilson , 1983 for a summary of this discussion , and also Carter , 1979 ; Linden et al. , 1982 ; Midgley and Hughes , 1983 ) .
19 The road followed a wadi , a dried-up river bed , which was green with palms and which a trick of light sometimes filled with water — such mirages are natural and common in the desert .
20 The NFFO was a clever device intended to ensure that , whatever the commercial pressures under privatization and whatever the state of nuclear economics , a proportion of electricity would continue to be produced by nuclear power .
21 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 .
22 She buy for Pablo and me a house with furniture , and she consent to be godmother to our child . ’
23 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 ) .
24 Mr Clarke answered criticism from Cleveland County Council leaders in comparing the money being spent on the City Technology College in Middlesbrough and what the education authority has to spread over the county 's state schools .
25 He himself had been roundly booed in Jamaica and whatever the reasons , the Barbadian public could not bring themselves to come out in support .
26 Herbs and other cottage garden plants are back in fashion and what a novel way this is to grow them attractively in a limited area .
27 Who else , if anyone , will be involved in treatment and who the therapist will keep informed about the patient 's progress .
28 It seems to be part of the Woolf proposal for compacts and for making prisoners fully aware of what is happening in prisons and what the plans are .
29 Flaherty asked who was to take the sketches to the Fire Court and the Gnomes at once looked alarmed , because had n't they already travelled all the way from Gallan and it a terrible long journey , never mind getting lost twice , as well as the Robemaker 's Workshops and the Cruachan Cavern being on the route .
30 And we went across in small boats to Sanday and what a night .
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