Example sentences of "what the [noun] is [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salesperson first agrees that what the buyer is saying is sensible and reasonable , before then putting forward an alternative point of view . |
| 2 | Aha , the textbooks reply , you 're missing the point : what the girl is doing is seeking a replacement for the security that was roughly torn from her ; she is looking for a father who wo n't desert her . |
| 3 | The best way of achieving this is to secure that what the mirror is reflecting is interesting — perhaps plants , pictures , or even a fireplace . |
| 4 | Attacking what he said was the limited usefulness of the measures , he said : ‘ The situation is so desperate that anything seems better than nothing , even when what the Government is proposing is next to nothing . ’ |
| 5 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 6 | What the MLC is doing is trying to keep the meat-eating habit going ; to expand — or at least to slow down the contraction of — the overall market . |
| 7 | Essentially , what the firm is doing is to reap an additional return on the capital already invested at home in developing the product by transferring its know-how across frontiers . |
| 8 | ‘ What the campaign is seeking is a Meirionnydd-based authority , and all the evidence indicates that the people of Meirionnydd are backing us strongly . ’ |
| 9 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 10 | What the audience is watching is Lear 's expressive behaviour , not the actor 's . |
| 11 | And although the APR quoted in the above follow-on example is an accurate expression of the cost of the loan , there is a sense in which what the consumer is borrowing is only that £15.87 cash in hand . |
| 12 | What the professional is doing is offering a framework within which parents can learn skills to solve their own problems . |