Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb base] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 2 | And here I would like to quote the Levitical ruling on childbirth for it highlights what I hope is now becoming clear , i.e. the perceived gender differentials in blood and the connection between male circumcision and the female blood cycle : |
| 3 | Apparently the individual costs of the lines are staggering and they reckon that the cost of the calls does not outweigh it but what I think is certainly outweighed is the cost of all our time trying to get through on these lines |
| 4 | So instead , what I do is just stand outside and look through the window . |
| 5 | What I do is n't singing about myself , I kinda make up these little stories , I do n't know where they come from … |
| 6 | But what you know is not gon na be the same . |
| 7 | What we envisage is somewhere open and staffed 24 hours a day , seven days a week , where anybody can come for help and advice . |
| 8 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 9 | What is required , he wrote , is to find an outlet for those energies , for those needs and desires , so that they do not turn inward and rend you to pieces , an outlet , he wrote , but never to imagine that what we do is ever going to be an everlasting achievement . |
| 10 | What we read is commonly determined for us . |
| 11 | You know , we 're not direct enough in what we say is actually happening with parish council money . |
| 12 | There are so many combinations of what to have , what to get , what we ca n't get , what we need really I think is , what we need is obviously going to be priority is n't it ? |
| 13 | We will introduce legislation designed to give consumers confidence that what they purchase is properly described — and that adequate compensation is offered where these requirements are not met . |
| 14 | What they represent is also influenced by institutional constraints , and choices of output by record companies and radio stations ( see Frith 1987d : 137–8 ; Street 1986 : 116–25 ; Wallis and Malm 1984 : 242–52 ; Harker 1980 : 94–100 ) . |
| 15 | No , what they want is perfectly expressed in the simple banner held up during the Leipzig demonstrations : ‘ Freiheit ! ! ! ’ |
| 16 | In practice agents do not , or even perhaps could not , have complete and consistent preferences , partly because what they want is often affected by what they believe , and they do not , or could not , have perfect information . |
| 17 | A trade union education that is — as some have rightly advocated — open to members as well as representatives , broad-based and educational rather than narrow and role-specific , continuing and recurrent rather than ad hoc and disparate , will itself produce limited and ephemeral results unless working people can see that what they learn is also practised in their own organisations . |