Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a moment before the traffic and travel news now for me to remind you that erm if you 're the chairman or the secretary or whatever it happens to be of a particular group whether it be erm the local amateur dramatics society or er a North Yorkshire charity and you 'd like the opportunity to have some prime time publicity for what you 're doing , particularly in the run-up to the Christmas period |
| 2 | So you 're able to reward people ah with some kind of appropriate er some kind of token , a star or whatever it happens to be , some kind of token which it can then hav has a monetary value , okay ? |
| 3 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 4 | But once you got well into the business of the removal , y one forgets , you see , and you forget exactly what you 're carrying or what it appears to be that you 're carrying . |
| 5 | The traditional term " content " fails to discriminate between the philosopher 's concepts of SENSE and REFERENCE : what a linguistic form means , and what it refers to . |
| 6 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 7 | German memory of Weimar instability , and what it led to , is strong . |
| 8 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 9 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 10 | And what it takes to fits word together , to fit letters together . |
| 11 | The term reference is traditionally used in semantics for the relationship which holds between a word and what it points to in the real world . |
| 12 | Obscenity ‘ represents a much more fundamental assault on men and women and what it means to be human … [ it distorts ] human personality by depicting it as deprived of those characteristics which are essential to humanity [ since ] common to all obscene productions is the degradation of persons and of relations between persons ’ . |
| 13 | It 's now about what 's in here , ’ said Morgan , pointing to his heart , ‘ and what it means to them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If this film had already been made there would n't be so much confusion about what the Maastricht Treaty is and what it means to Britain , ’ said one of the film 's producers , as Mr Brandreth rehearsed his lines in front of the European Parliament in Brussels . |
| 15 | Everyone has a different view of friendship and what it means to them . |
| 16 | It does , it might not seem it at this moment in time , but eventually you will understand everything that 's in there , and what it means to you , yes ? |
| 17 | Asked how he would tackle a photographic assignment based on the theme ‘ Positivity ’ for the Grolsch Showcase Competition , Dermot O'Shea replies : ‘ I would have to think very carefully about the word , its meaning and what it suggests to me . |
| 18 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 19 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 20 | Worried that his brother might be close to a nervous collapse , he refrained from spelling it out bluntly , but what it amounted to was this : Do n't kick the bourgeois while they are still feeding you . |
| 21 | He used a lot of abstruse terms like " cricoid " but what it amounted to was that she had been strangled . |
| 22 | It 's all classified , but what it amounts to is that we wo n't play the Great Game over here and they wo n't play it in the UK . |
| 23 | How you can be less pro-active than I M R O I ca n't understand or I M R O at that particular time , but what it appears to be me is that erm that if we 're not careful , we 're gon th the pension regulator 's just gon na be a rubber stamp factory . |