Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [is] [adv] what [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He once said that his ambition was to make of it ‘ the Cathedral Synagogue of Canada , ’ and that is exactly what happened . |
| 2 | And that is exactly what happened . |
| 3 | And that is precisely what has happened . |
| 4 | I was meant to grow up something like Desi Arnaz Jnr and that 's not what happened . ’ |
| 5 | So a young man really has to get initiated and conform to what the elders expect if he 's going to have any reproductive success at all and that 's exactly what happens . |
| 6 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 7 | And that 's just what happened to me . |
| 8 | If the spinal cord is severed at any point , it will be evident that the messages can not get through and this is just what does happen in cases of severe spinal injury etc . |
| 9 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 10 | And this is precisely what has happened in the stockmarket . |
| 11 | But that 's exactly what happens to thousands of black people . |
| 12 | But that 's exactly what 's happened and now fed up villagers are doing something about it . |
| 13 | ‘ But that 's not what 's brought me to the crossroads . ’ |
| 14 | But that is just what happened to fusion research in the United States toward the end of the 1950's . |
| 15 | One might expect one 's money to be used to buy holidays or be handed to charity , but that is not what happens . |
| 16 | But that is not what has happened . |
| 17 | But that is exactly what has been done . |
| 18 | But that is precisely what happens when we expect plants to live and thrive , not as nature intended , but on chemical fertilizers . |
| 19 | But this is not what happened in the early seventies . |
| 20 | But this is not what live music is all about . |
| 21 | But this is not what has happened : at least , my data shows no sign of it . |