Example sentences of "whatever it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ said Henry Tyler , in the last analysis a Ministry man , ‘ that this stuff , whatever it is , is something that ought to be put a stop to . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a very determined little animal , whatever it is . |
| 5 | Djwa is precise in saying that his ‘ dominant theme ’ is ‘ the relationship between experience and art , ’ though it avoids the nature of the experience — ‘ art for art 's sake ’ or art for truth 's sake : the reality behind the mythology — whatever it is . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's really time you snapped out of it , whatever it is , ’ said Michael in the lounge later . |
| 7 | Whatever it is , now the moment 's here that she came for , that she half foresaw , she wo n't tell . |
| 8 | Neither change nor stasis , in any sense we could possibly understand , can have any application to whatever it is we label ‘ God ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Whatever it is , I do n't want it , ’ I tell him . |
| 10 | ‘ You know , Boyo , it 's going to happen very soon , whatever it is . |
| 11 | Whatever it is , it tastes good . |
| 12 | whatever it is . |
| 13 | popular theory now decrees that small specialist retail companies get a higher stock-market rating than the big conglomerates , so the latest fashion is for Sock Shops , Body Shops , whatever it is , with very high p/Es , while larger organisations get a lower rating because they are a group . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | If it 's well made I 'll pay the price whatever it is . ’ |
| 16 | Much depends on the intangibles which produce whatever it is in the ether that allows creative sparks to ignite . |
| 17 | It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world , without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace … there must be some agreement among the countries of Europe as to the requirements of the situation and the part those countries themselves will take in order to give proper effect to whatever action might be undertaken by this government . |
| 18 | INVESTORS , traders , bankers and managers often operate with only a partial model in mind about why they are doing whatever it is they are doing , and what principles lie behind it . |
| 19 | Apathy , whatever it is linked with ‘ declines into death . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Mind your own business , whatever it is ! ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not sure of my plan yet but whatever it is you could help me if you want . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Get hold of this wall or whatever it is , ’ Maggie instructed . |
| 25 | I 'll be here when you get back , the way I always am , and I 'll cooperate with whatever it is that 's so important to you . |
| 26 | Whatever it is , it 's left a pretty burr in your voice . ’ |
| 27 | Whatever it is , he wo n't be able to get to sleep again . |
| 28 | Next Wed 's possible visit to London — there 'll probably be a train strike that day , so maybe we should think of alternative ways of getting whatever it is you want me to bring down to you on another day ? |
| 29 | Whatever it is we are doing , we are already doing it , and it seems to make sense . |
| 30 | She knows what she 's at , whatever it is . |