Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
| 2 | Yes they 're erm I mean there erm Malton 's what thirty minutes drive from York , Pickering 's probably forty five , up to an hour . |
| 3 | " Busking is what I mean . |
| 4 | Above Urepel is what is known as the Pays Quint , a small territory of upland pastures and woods that is another of the anomalies of the Franco-Spanish frontier . |
| 5 | The Arc is what we want and the Fox proved that she 's in top form . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Winning on Saturday is what is important — a glorious Cup tradition does n't pay bills but a Cup run this year will do . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Improv is what we call the first dynamic spreadsheet for Windows . |
| 8 | So , if what she received from Beatrix is what the kidnappers want , she 's not to know , is she ? ’ |
| 9 | THE LONDON Film Festival — the largest ever mounted — grinds to a halt on Sunday with a performance of Ettore Scola 's What Time Is It ? |
| 10 | Hyacinth was what David Swan 's mother would have called ‘ a bonny lass ’ and David was beginning to think so too . |
| 11 | Mrs Flaherty was what the nans called the Wrong Element . |
| 12 | Corinth could afford to be indifferent to the vengeance Athens took against Samos ; Megara was what mattered to Corinth , and Megara was now back in the Peloponnesian camp . |
| 13 | Looking at the best of chemical engineering within AEA is what the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service will be focusing on in a two day conference starting on 30 November 1993 . |
| 14 | ‘ A permanent move to Spain , Italy or even Scotland is what they all dream about . ’ |
| 15 | IF Peter Pan is the most popular of JM Barrie 's plays in the world at large , the one which is most frequently revived in the playwright 's native Scotland is What Every Woman Knows . |
| 16 | Harry Dean Stanton is what we used to call the embodiment of anomie , cynical and dried-up , Estevez is dopey and deadpan and the only sane character is a derelict who believes in aliens and that ‘ The more you drive , the less intelligent you are ’ . |
| 17 | Gary Nicholson was what Hoomey 's mother called a nasty rough boy . |
| 18 | IF ENGLAND WAS WHAT ENGLAND SEEMS |
| 19 | If England was what England seems |
| 20 | Spain was what you tried to wake up from |
| 21 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 22 | ‘ Surfing is what you do when you 've got nothing left ’ , said Hailama , one of the contest beach marshals . |
| 23 | ‘ Damian Flint is what 's really beginning to bug me … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That , Tom is what I want you to find out . ’ |
| 25 | What 's going on in Coronation Street is what I want to know . |
| 26 | The quality of Skelton is what we 're talking about . |
| 27 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |
| 28 | Some , perhaps not without malice , averred that Capella was what did for Mars in the first place , god knows how many aeons ago . |
| 29 | It was heavy on him too ; he was carrying it all in his mind , the whole picture of Charley , coming into the district , moving into the disused back of Belmodes ; and perhaps because Mouncy Street was what it was . |
| 30 | One of the first lessons Pennett learned with Notts was what merciless mickey-takers cricketers are . |