Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 2 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 3 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
| 4 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 5 | Now in some respects what I think should happen , is we should , yeah we should not be negative about going on the course , but in terms of the financial implications I 'm very worried about that and I think there is a erm , there is some need for the client to say , that if he wants us to go on this course we 're happy to go on it , but that he should look seriously at financing and he plus it should have been in the tender document . |
| 6 | He knows what he 's galloping , he knows within a few pounds what he wants . |
| 7 | We asked some children what they thought happened to food inside their bodies . |
| 8 | Although it made him uneasy , he could not tell for some moments what it was . |
| 9 | Him and David a few beers What you doing with the mum ? |
| 10 | In such cases what we need to discover is the most specific head all of whose incompatibles are xenonyms — that is , a head such that , for any hyponym , at least one incompatible can be found which is also a philonym of the modifier . |
| 11 | why are people being spoke it 's because they know at the end of the day it 's what they 're bombarding all these things what we are |
| 12 | Oh goodness knows , I mean that them gates have been renewed and I remember them being renewed , these gates what they got there now . |
| 13 | Moreover he omits , virtually without mention , the extraordinary improvements made in English industrial life , and elsewhere , in the second half of the nineteenth century and which made many of these towns what they are today . |
| 14 | For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different . |
| 15 | This is many times what he would earn as a university graduate in Bangladesh . |
| 16 | We have a duty to be as clear as we can , and to articulate at all times what we are trying to do , in at least a general sense , and it will help us to ask ( even if we can not always easily answer ) what the result might be in terms of student ability or behaviour . |
| 17 | " It 's all lies what you 're saying . " |
| 18 | Ask many tradesmen what they use to rip timber ( cut parallel with the longest sides , along the grain ) and they reply ‘ a Skil saw ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I wanted to know for myself , hard and clear , with my own ears what he knew about Ephraim . ’ |
| 20 | Any ideas what we should call him ? ’ |
| 21 | So you got any ideas what you 're gon na get , what you should get mum for ? |
| 22 | For his part , Edward sensed that the ice was cracking and since he desperately needed money , preferably without political complications — his lay subjects were restive now — he restored the archbishop 's lands and offered the primate and several magnates what they were by then demanding — confirmation of Magna Carta , the Charter of the Forest and some additional articles . |
| 23 | A privately-agreed separation should give both parties what they want and allow them to lead lives apart while remaining Prince and Princess of Wales . |