Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the root of his ever-present seeking for something other than he has — happiness , nirvana or what you will ? |
| 2 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 3 | I do not believe she knows why she is going to the Camp or what she will find there . ’ |
| 4 | It does not indicate what the velocity will be at the same point at another instant or what it will be at any other geometrically similar point ( i.e. a point at the same distance from the axis ) . |
| 5 | If the tests are negative at the time of the initial examination , it is quite a good idea to ask the doctor whether he thinks there is likely to be any infection present or what he believes your symptoms are due to . |
| 6 | But I said to him look Josh is n't exactly well off at the moment , he needs the money or what he bought so |
| 7 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 8 | So my beliefs constitute an extremely important constraint on my behaviour and , bearing in mind that what we believe to be right or wrong is , to a large extent , learnt behaviour , that we do not inherit such beliefs , it is obvious that the source of these beliefs has to be seen as a major constraint on , and determinant of , our behaviour . |
| 9 | Major investments can be made , particularly at these times , bearing in mind that what you pay out will bring you great dividends in the future . |
| 10 | That car better condition than what my o , my one was . |
| 11 | 1.46 Given this formality of pleading it is easy to overlook the basic rule that what one does not plead one will not get at trial . |
| 12 | Gerald Graff , in Professing Literature , is sympathetic to Scholes 's approach , quoting him to the effect that what we call skill in reading involves ‘ a knowledge of the codes that were operative in the composition of any given text and the historical situation in which it was composed . ’ |
| 13 | In this he initiated the Great Debate by exhorting teachers to ‘ satisfy parents and industry that what you are doing meets their requirements and the needs of their children ’ . |
| 14 | I was more of a hooligan than what they were used to , ’ Bailey snorts . |
| 15 | The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action . |
| 16 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 17 | For while an objective attitude carries with it a certain distance , and a recognition that what we think of as natural responses such as gratitude or resentment are out of place , reactive attitudes confirm our beliefs about the expectations people have of one another in society . |
| 18 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 19 | I deplore the recent attacks by Ministers and others on the association and what it is doing . |
| 20 | Okay well let me say something now about what political power means er to an American president and what its limits are . |
| 21 | He will do all he can to make amends in some small way for the family 's loss and what they 've suffered . |
| 22 | Newspapers make their money from combination of cover price revenue and what they bring in from selling advertising space . |
| 23 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 24 | Mealtimes provide natural variation in a programme and what you are going to offer will depend on the programme , the venue 's facilities , the season , the numbers and your budget . |
| 25 | In most competitions I was tense ; I was racing , I was aware of the opposition and what they were doing . |
| 26 | The first Not the Nine O' Clock News series had a sketch about Python worshippers but that team , while itself worshipping Python , went out of its way not to be derivative , eschewing silly voices , dressing in drag and what they later realised to be a misogynist trait in Python . |
| 27 | We want the capital and revenue spending of Government more clearly identified , so that we can judge the balance of investment for the future and what we spend today . |
| 28 | look in early nineteen forty eight where we are , wh where the land reform process had taken the Communist Party tt and then we could begin to look forward to where policy was going to go from there in terms of the military , political , economic , ideological future and what I 'm going to do today to , to begin with anyway is , is to just consider where we are and where it is we 're gon na go and in a sense we could , it might be helpful to , to put ourselves back in a position of being the central committee again . |
| 29 | Oh yeah , we 've got the analysis we 've got the questionnaires Okay what we 're gon na look at now is we gon na look at the work of Honey and Munnford and what Honey and Munnford spent a lot of time researching was people 's learning sides and they spent a lot of research and what they found out is that there are four different learning sides and we all learn in different ways . |
| 30 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |