Example sentences of "[verb] what [pron] is [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |
| 2 | It 's been very hard for years , and now , to be back here , you do n't know what it is for me . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know what it is with me and my left foot … |
| 4 | talk about , I do n't know what it is about her I do n't like her , very often I sort of she , to me she 's sarcastic , the way , the way she 's talking to you there 's sarcasm there all the time , you know , like |
| 5 | I do n't know what it is about it , but I find I have the urge to sit here and enjoy it . |
| 6 | At least — at least — I do n't know what it is about you , Miss Abbott , but you make me want to bare my soul to you — I did have a wife once , years ago , when I was very young , but she left me , not I her , to live with someone else . |
| 7 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 8 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 9 | Other than that , I ca n't see what it is about her that is so dreadful suddenly , but the tone of disappointment and warning in my mother 's voice does get through to me . |
| 10 | Look what there is against her . ’ |
| 11 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen , South ( Mr. Doran ) and other colleagues know what it is to which I refer . |
| 13 | Nor is it necessary to know any of x 's relational properties in order to understand what it is for it to be round-shaped or metal . |
| 14 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 15 | They try to empty what it is in their stomach and it |
| 16 | Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect . |
| 17 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 18 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 19 | They relate what there is to what , in the authors ' views , there ought to be . |
| 20 | THE BEATMASTERS FEATURING ELAINE VASSELL : Du n no What It is About You BOMB THE BASS : Keep Giving Me Love |
| 21 | Can you say what it is about them that threatens you ? |