Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 2 | Concomitant symptoms are symptoms not directly related to but arising at the same time as , the main complaint such as a headache with diarrhoea or cold sores with a fever — things which are repeatedly associated , so that the patient might say ‘ Whenever I get this problem I always get a stomach upset ’ or whatever it may be . |
| 3 | Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation . |
| 4 | But for us as archaeologists it 's a er it 's wonderful because it shows change and that 's what archaeology is all about , the the influence of humans on place or landscape or or whatever it may be wherever you are . |
| 5 | Or whatever it may be . |
| 6 | This coquetry , or whatever it may be called , of so wretched a being , was truly ludicrous . ’ |
| 7 | Basically to say , er , look after me , or give me what I want , or er , do what I want you to do , or whatever it may be . |
| 8 | When it does n't meet its demands , the ego is likely to feel anxiety or discomfort or whatever it may be . |
| 9 | The people who do this , often expert in their own field , astronomy or whatever it may be , seem sincerely to believe that Darwinism explains living organization in terms of chance — " single- step selection " — alone . |
| 10 | You got a business partnership wan na protect one of their directors , one of their top producers , or whatever it may be , they can take a plan out , on the life of their employee so again marketing here , he 's looking at companies as well as individuals . |
| 11 | Still be paid monthly in arrears , yes , but they qualify from day one , not , you know , four or thirteen weeks later , or whatever it may be . |
| 12 | or whatever it may be . |
| 13 | If you 're a theist , you will say , ‘ Well , here is Russell 's deeper conviction of the true nature of things bursting through the false , restrictive , scientific intellectualism into which he endeavoured to confine it , and so what we have here , when he calls the world unjust , or fearful , or whatever it may be , are his true , his ultimate convictions peeping through . ’ |
| 14 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 15 | And we 've got ta , wha what we 'll do we 'll get those set up at the sort of the appropriate working temperatures , and working humidity and then we will have to deal with people on an individual basis , if basically , they 're uncomfortable because of draft or whatever it might be . |
| 16 | Er it would have been better had he perhaps said , well there 's the time for the job , there 's your card , there 's all the operations listed for you , from one to sixteen or whatever it might be , and each one itemized you know , as to how long it might take . |
| 17 | Drawings were altered er instead of getting a whole sheet of a combined er er part of a , a steering gear or whatever it might have been , er they were all itemized and reduced to part pieces , and it was much easier to look , examine and find out what sizes were required than , you know , three dimensional er drawings . |
| 18 | It is not an obligation on the taxpayer , because the promoter wants to build a harbour , bridge or whatever it might be that requires parliamentary procedures . |
| 19 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 20 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 21 | And you know some years in advance if you 're in a secondary school erm that the total secondary school population is going to drop by , say , erm fifteen per cent in the next five years or whatever it might be . |
| 22 | The … officer will probably say ‘ Royal Commission ’ , or whatever it should be , or something ‘ long these lines to some industrialist . |
| 23 | I think I know what this might mean , or what it might be made to mean . |
| 24 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 25 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 26 | The trouble was , for the life of him , he could not imagine where or what it might be . |
| 27 | Until fairly recently I do n't think people have understood the design process or what it can do for the success of their companies . |
| 28 | Can it market itself more effectively to its potential customers , many of whom are unclear about what factoring is or what it can do for their company ? |
| 29 | What nervousness means or what it can mean . |
| 30 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |