Example sentences of "or [Wh det] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
| 2 | Anyway , this brother or cousin or whatever he is , could be important . |
| 3 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 4 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose she ca n't help it , ’ Alan , Jane 's neighbour , philosophised , ‘ it 's all a matter of how the genes , or the DNA or whatever it is , falls . |
| 7 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 8 | ‘ Get hold of this wall or whatever it is , ’ Maggie instructed . |
| 9 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 10 | These grow and mature until it becomes a flower , a tree , a tiger or a human being — or whatever it is destined to become — depending on the characteristics transmitted to it through its inherited material , the genes , which are grouped together in its chromosomes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Or compute , or whatever it is you do . ’ |
| 13 | PERESTROIKA and Glasnost have been the buzzwords coming out of the USSR ( or whatever it is now going to be called ) in recent years and the aviation world too , has been buzzing with exciting words like Fw 190 , Hampden , Hurricane , and Yak-1 . |
| 14 | Many people find that they drop their meditation practice or whatever it is at precisely the time when they think they need it most — i.e. when they are feeling most stressed . |
| 15 | Accell/OO — or whatever it is called by the time it comes to market — will have full graphical and object-oriented functions , Unify says . |
| 16 | Accell/OO — or whatever it is known as by the time it comes to market — will have full graphical and object-oriented functions , Unify says . |
| 17 | Go and buy some curtains or whatever it is you want . " |
| 18 | from tapes or whatever it is you hold on . |
| 19 | Either those of the market place or of those of funders or of your own cultural aims or equal opportunities or whatever it is . |
| 20 | It seems that this Andrée woman was the star turn there , won all the prizes , played all the parts , set the fashion or whatever it is they look up to at those girl schools , you should know . ’ |
| 21 | Come on , Doctor : have n't you short-circuited the mad scientist 's gizmo yet , or bamboozled the megalomaniac survivor of an ancient race of warrior wizards , or whatever it is this time ? |
| 22 | But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it . |
| 23 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
| 24 | " Well , I 'd have thought you 'd know that , working next door but four or five or whatever it is . |
| 25 | The substance whether it be hairspray or whatever it is , is put in under pressure . |
| 26 | That you 've got to get on with your thing and get your shopping or whatever it is , done quick to get home to do whatever they do at home . |
| 27 | That er when you get these these er er reputations or whatever it is , it takes an awful lot of living down . |
| 28 | The waiter has just brought us our dough , our honorarium or whatever it is , and we 're sitting there quietly snorting and drooling into our brandy balloon , and relishing a perspicacious perfecto . |
| 29 | I 'm going to unravel the little prick 's knickers , and I 'm going to expose its little rubber bladder , or whatever it is those obnoxious bloody choirboys filled with joke-shop blood , then I 'm going to fill it up with piss and hang it back on that music stand . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'll be busy , ’ said Robert , ‘ studying briefs , or whatever it is he does . ’ |