Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] is [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whatever it is that they seek , this Chinese martial art will , somewhere along the road of disciplined training , provide it . |
| 2 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 3 | You , you ha you establish a rapport of listening for a little while to whatever it is that they 've got to say , and their troubles and their anxieties and I was n't happy that |
| 4 | I mean we can Toyota can produce , you know , sufficient Corollas or whatever it is that they make at Derby erm , to sat to satisfy the whole of the world market for that particular car , just from one plant . |
| 5 | This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe . |
| 6 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 7 | Whatever it is that you wish , I am instructed to provide . ’ |
| 8 | English will basically be er Chaucer or whatever , or whatever it is that you 've been doing . |
| 9 | Bottom up processing is where you start with the input information , whatever that might be and then you , based on that input information , you extract or inp or extract more meaning from the input until you end up with whatever it is that you recognise . |
| 10 | You built a little plan , that if I leave at ten past eight , I miss that traffic , or I , whatever it is that you do n't often plan till the holidays , but after a while it stopped being a decision making process . |
| 11 | Collect so many tokens you get a T V or a washing machine or whatever it is that you want . |
| 12 | Yeah find out , I mean exactly sort of trying to find out exactly what it is that they want to think about , suggest , you know |
| 13 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 14 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
| 15 | We do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespectively of what it is that we like . |
| 16 | Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do . |
| 17 | But such emotions are themselves informed by the way in which we see the world , by our conceptions of what it is that we find desirable or fearful . |
| 18 | You know , er given enough time and preparation and if we define clearly what it is that we want to analyze , you know I can provide that information er in the form of a report or in a rawish state and we could discuss that . |
| 19 | Even though the new series looks good ( with one of its highlights promising to be the small-screen debut of Paul Whitehead ) and he has at least three other projects on the go , Harry Enfield still has n't figured out what it is that he does exactly . |
| 20 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 21 | It is not perfectly clear from what Mace says what it is that he wants to contrast with my body as it appears to others . |
| 22 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 23 | Could you now tell us what it is that you knew about Mr ? |
| 24 | Albert Reynolds has told the Prime Minister , Mr Major , Mr Major has taken on board , has has considered , presumably , what it is that you 've done with Gerry Adams , and concluded that it can go no further . |
| 25 | SALESPERSON : Could you tell me exactly what it is that you do n't like the look of ? |
| 26 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 27 | ‘ And you know , you have n't yet told me what it is that you want , ’ he said , and sat back , and eyed them expectantly , first one and then another , which Fribble found disconcerting . |
| 28 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 29 | so you 're very clear about what it is that you want |
| 30 | when you 're clear about what it is that you want you can be assertive |