Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 2 | And the rewards then would be that erm from the interviewers point of view he be you know viewed as more intelligent , self-confident , industrious all this sort of thing , make him say determined , erm more understandable to the interviewer obviously , and also the there He 's more likely to be well liked by the interviewer , and that 's Because of that not only his voice but the content of what he 's actually saying is gon na be more favourably looked upon . |
| 3 | And he finishes off this poem with a description of what he 's now writing . |
| 4 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 5 | He seemed to have a solid grasp of what it 's really like to live in one of these estates . |
| 6 | It 's very easy then of course to punish the person er who communicates that with you er which ultimately can can er totally divorce an organisation from the reality of what it 's actually doing so that kind of philosophy , very destructive in terms of er effective communication . |
| 7 | onto what he 's already taken on here . |
| 8 | TI says it has switched to a 0.7-micron process from 0.8 , and will be analysing product from every angle before it makes any declarations as to what it 's really getting . |
| 9 | And there 's not a lot of co-ordination between what she 's currently doing and what the children did last year , or what they will do with another teacher next . |
| 10 | A COMIC behind-the-scenes look at what it 's really like to run for President in the United States is offered in Feed ( BBC-2 , 11.55pm ) . |