Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [pron] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem odd that what we heard was such a revelation . |
| 2 | He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people . |
| 3 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 4 | The main penalty of recession is unemployment , and what we need is more jobs , not more consumption . |
| 5 | and what they do is all this typical regimented structures and regimented bloody this and that run like the fucking civil service |
| 6 | After two years without having felt a man 's arms around her , she was vulnerable , and what she wanted was any suitably attractive and virile male . |
| 7 | I 've asked him about that and what he said is that er , he was saving up and he was going tax the vehicle as soon he was able to do so but he did n't have the funds and er , to do so at , at that time . |
| 8 | It 's called Totally Pauly , and what you get is this gangling , scarf-draped , tendril-haired , mumbling , stumbling doper addressing the camera — and , by extension , us — as ‘ Bud ’ , accosting strangers on the street , cruising chicks ( ‘ buff nugs ’ , to use his parlance ) on the Strip , or making field trips to beauty pageants , pig farms and rodeos . |
| 9 | and what I found is that one . |
| 10 | ‘ And what I propose is this — that we introduce an additional label into the collection . |
| 11 | But it is a sign nonetheless , and what it signifies is that Eeyore believes he 's out of thistles : simply because he only sighs ( when the subject 's raised ) when he does believe that . |
| 12 | The hypocrite offers the gull a surface falseness which he penetrates to discover ‘ a truth ’ , but which we know is another falseness . |
| 13 | Yeah but what they ripped was all fat , all her fat , ooh |
| 14 | Yeah but what they ripped was all fat ! |
| 15 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 16 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |