Example sentences of "or [Wh det] it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when it comes to looking for x-ray or path lab or whatever it is but finding your way out . |
| 2 | I do n't know what it were , it were like great big bits of gristle or whatever it is but it were hard . |
| 3 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 4 | All over the world , standards of beauty vary ; fat women can become the ideal , or those with small feet , or tall women , or those with blue eyes , or whatever it is that seems to capture the spirit of beauty for a particular time and place . |
| 5 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
| 6 | You read it very quickly and and it would almost he had it would be he 'd or whatever it is that the word was you know that y you |
| 7 | The , the minute , the note last time said a pool of cand , they , they will be told that a pool of possible candidat candidates will be contacted to attend for final interview once it 's decided to go ahead with the new appointment , so you could the thr the the three , or whatever it is that you are not putting forward , that their , that our interest in them has ceased |
| 8 | Collect so many tokens you get a T V or a washing machine or whatever it is that you want . |
| 9 | English will basically be er Chaucer or whatever , or whatever it is that you 've been doing . |
| 10 | I did n't know whether he had two loans or not or whatever it is because |
| 11 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 12 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |
| 13 | They find new ways of sharing what resources there are , whether collaborating in local policing or working with health authorities or whatever it is and I think they form the base for renewal of politics because we have to recreate politics for localities upwards and here , just finally chancing my arm , I must just frankly say that I am not clear that over-large amalgamations of unions will be much more helpful than over-centralized government bureaucracies . |
| 14 | There are little tricks , for example , if it 's a time clause , when you think to yourself oh God it 's one of those lists , you sit down and calm yourself , take a Valium or whatever it is and just apply yourselves to that , right , what the next point is so the first thing I want you to do is stop at this time clause , when you realize it 's a time clause I want you to go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot to the main verb , alright ? |
| 15 | Perhaps the magic of science would overcome this detestable witchcraft ( or whatever it was that held me in thrall ) . |
| 16 | for granddad or whatever it was or something were n't it ? |
| 17 | And then he said I 'm always here and I do n't know whether he 's supposed to come down or what it is but as I said to him it 's a load of codswallop . |
| 18 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 19 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |