Example sentences of "or what is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You may need to fill or plane off a slot at the thick or what is now the top edge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |