Example sentences of "[is] what [is] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 2 | This is what is normally called the problem of social order , and of course it 's been around in philosophy and , and social sciences , really since the beginning , and er , some of the greatest and earliest works of er , social philosophy like Plato 's Republic , are really in part about this er question . |
| 3 | In spite of this , the words ‘ buyer beware ’ still carry a very real warning in one type of purchase and that is what is colloquially called a private sale . |
| 4 | Now what you 're going to receive this afternoon , is what is pretentiously called a time management system . |
| 5 | So is what is sometimes called an open conditional : If it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 6 | And , and the issue is , question is is what is often called a problem of social order . |