Example sentences of "[conj] what [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or what about 4-META ( pronounced 4-mee-ta as in cheetah ) , currently used in some dental fillings to promote adhesion to teeth . |
| 2 | ‘ Or what about the women who work in the offices where these calendars are stuck up ? ’ |
| 3 | Or what about this constructive comment penned by a biologist reviewing a grant proposal . |
| 4 | The Butterfly and Natural World Centre ( 7 ) and the National Birds of Prey Centre ( 6 ) are close by ; or what about a trip to one of the local vineyards or ‘ pick your own ’ farms . |
| 5 | Or what about replaying the speech conceding defeat ? |
| 6 | Or what about your mum , Ella , think she might like to come up and join the hen party ? ’ |
| 7 | and then just generally play with it say , Oh I wonder what would happen if you put two thirds together , how many twelfths would that be or what about if you had a third and you wanted to take a quarter away , if you cut a quarter off it . |
| 8 | Or what about a W.A.A.F. ? |
| 9 | Or what about Bruiser Dalziel ? |
| 10 | Or what about the Irish Republic ? |
| 11 | ‘ He sometimes had telephone calls but who from or what about I do n't know . |
| 12 | Or what about the newspaper headline : " Religious mania behind terrorism ? " |
| 13 | Or what about the Bosporus ; the last traditional boat used to umpire the races at the regatta . |
| 14 | Or what about Classical Ballet , Jazz Dance , Contemporary Dance , Scottish and Irish Folk Dance , Indian , Balinese , Tribal or Belly Dancing ? |
| 15 | Towards the end of his reign , in the ordinance of the forest of 1306 , the king speaks of being confronted ‘ with the inspection of human weakness ’ and the wide burdens that fell upon him , he being ‘ inwardly tormented with divers compunctions , tossed about by the waves of divers thoughts ’ , and being ‘ frequently troubled , passing sleepless nights , … hesitating in our inmost soul upon what ought to be done , what to be held , or what to be presented ’ ; ‘ about this chiefly is our mind busied without intermission , that we may prepare the pleasantness of ease and quiet for our subjects dwelling in our realm , in whose quiet we have some rest , and in their tranquillity we are inwardly cherished with odours of satisfaction and the flowers of hoped-for peace . ’ |
| 16 | They want to know how or what for , about every thing , then at the end they say ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and they tease and tell other people . |
| 17 | And then we dismantle the Rante and sell or use the materials — I do n't know quite how or what for yet but , first , sleep and dream . " |
| 18 | In most cases you do not need to change your environment or what at present is your life or your job . |
| 19 | Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do . |
| 20 | A person who knows about the different audio-visual and programmed formats , how they work , how they can be repaired , or what in general they are capable of . |
| 21 | We think of the spoken language , the written language , what in practice do you mean by ‘ language ’ , is it an instruction you type on a keyboard , or what in terms of a computer ? |
| 22 | In effect , Ayer has put them in a ghetto and they are happy to remain there , content to be making statements of nonsense in the assurance that what to the believer are the words of God must necessarily appear to the unbeliever mere gobbledygook . |
| 23 | When the rosy spectacles are laid aside , it is clear that what to the husband and children can be a refreshing hobby — after all they are more often than not the consumers , not the producers , of the home-made jam — to the wife can be another variant of the natural mother image and in everyday terms can mean longer than ever hours at the chopping board . |
| 24 | I decided that what with the big human-sacrifice convention in town , the cultists would be too busy to post any of the grade-A guards , and that the job would fall to Sleepy Joe and the Catnap Kid . |
| 25 | Can it be demonstrated that what at first sight appears to be a paradigm case of indigenous , national forces dispossessing transnational corporations , is in fact a clear illustration of the emergence of the transnational capitalist class in Nigeria ? |
| 26 | This observation may suggest that what at first sight seems a limited survival advantage in the meta-analysis reported by Souquet et al may loom larger to the patients concerned . |
| 27 | Nothing would weigh more heavily with many Tories than the thought that what above all had led them to throw away the 1992 election was the way the positive values and achievements of the Thatcher years had been allowed , through loss of nerve , to be obscured . |
| 28 | I thought you meant that what about the one in front of it then ? |
| 29 | The offspring will probably be selected to want a greater quantity of parental investment than the parent because again , a little bit extra for the offspring probably means more than what to its reproductive success , than it er would mean to the reproductive erm , success of , of the mother , as far as the offsprings are concerned . |
| 30 | I never remember her dressed other than what in those days would have been considered ‘ ladylike ’ , with a touch of white at the high neck , and her hair drawn back , which suited her hairline and the shape of her head . |