Example sentences of "[det] is [Wh det] it [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see the problem again is that , is the same as it is for anybody , next week is just planning , as it were , you know , this is what it 's about , why did the general management not sit down and say , oh that 's peak time to have them out we can not have all them indoors in there from , that 's a full morning . |
| 2 | And er they 're doing some market research , this is what it 's about , the national treasury of spoken English , a group of reading dictionary publishers and universities are participating in a government funded research project to compile a national treasury of the English language . |
| 3 | and that 's put on and if , we say for argument sake that er she was married , we know she 's not , but she could be and her banns are in and her husband gets wind that she 's getting married again , you know , so he goes into the registrar office has a look , and she 's already married to me and this is what it 's for |
| 4 | Now here it i this is what we do this is what it 's like , it 's fine , you 've got nothing to complain about . |
| 5 | ‘ If this is what it 's like to be under your protection , I 'd bloody well like to know what would happen if I were n't ! ’ |
| 6 | I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ . |
| 7 | This is what it is like being on the outside of a murder case , thought Gabriel . |
| 8 | This is what it was like to live in the pre-scholastic age . |
| 9 | ‘ This is what it was like , ’ he said to himself . |
| 10 | That is what it is for . |
| 11 | The study of human nature is , in good part , the study of human conventions , and that is what it is from the strictest ethological point of view . |