Example sentences of "or [Wh det] is [adv] " in BNC.

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1 An allowance in the nature of an attendance allowance ( or a financial loss allowance ) MAY be paid to a councillor in respect of his attendance at ANY conference or meeting which the council itself considers relates to the interests of the area ( other than one called in respect of a trade or business , or which is wholly or partly political ) .
2 We do n't know how many inhabitants there are , or which is early closing day , or whether we can see the sea from the windows .
3 Two novels , for example , which in other respects are very different , Claudio Piersanti 's Charles ( 1986 ) and the first of Aldo Busi 's three novels published to date , Seminar on Youth ( 1988 ) , have this in common : they both veer between an urban setting whose contemporaneity is underlined by its fashionableness and topicality ( Busi ) or which is vaguely futuristic ( Piersanti ) and a rural , provincial past which , though overtaken by the modern world , still remains extraordinarily alive .
4 Yes I mean if it is possible to provide that huge acreage I mean the space per player or whatever is rather less for croquet than for cricket , is n't it ?
5 It is a happy , happy feckless romp with many , many rolls in the hay , or whatever is most immediately available .
6 An aspect of marriage that is highlighted in ‘ Mansfield Park ’ is that it is extremely important to marry within your own class or what is even more preferred is to marry a person above your own class .
7 It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared .
8 This faith could be said to rely , at least to some extent , on that part of the teachings of the Old Testament which claims that a ‘ god ’ had promised sovereignty over the Promised Land , or what is now Palestine , to the descendants of Abraham .
9 You may need to fill or plane off a slot at the thick or what is now the top edge .
10 Under this chairmanship , the first Modern Languages and Marketing Studies undergraduates were admitted , the ACML or what is now the Modern Languages and Accounting Studies degree programme was launched , the Information Technology stream was introduced in the Modern Languages Degree programme and the latter was expanded to include Arabic as a main language .
11 The Zoology here , from what I have already seen , is likely to be of a most interesting description , totally different in its nature from that of Sydney , but probably approaching nearer in its character to the productions found beyond the Liverpool range , or what is more properly called the interior of New South Wales . ’
12 The use of a particular language does not necessarily coincide either with a group that claims common descent , or a geographical area or what is supposedly a culture .
13 The principle of independence in monist reasoning is usually coupled with an attempt to interpret relations as a sub-class of properties and expressive of certain purely internal features of their terms , or what is sometimes referred to as the doctrine of the " internality of relations " .
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