Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh det] it is " in BNC.

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1 Erm and basically what it is is it 's a government sponsored this er which erm well the rules may have changed cos they 're always changing the rules of these things .
2 Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system .
3 What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done .
4 Grattan Direct Line and we 're just like a company Grattan but Grattan own it sort of thing and basically what it is , it 's a daily delivery to the door .
5 It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else .
6 you deducted three , nine , six , nine , one , and so whatever it is should end in nine at least
7 Stroke him nicely , her nicely whatever it is .
8 And finally , the criminal injuries compensation scheme , to cut the amounts paid to people who are victims of gang rape , to cut the amount paid to people who are victims of child abuse , that shows just how much the Home Secretary cares about the victims of crime , and his other measures show that he 's far more concerned with his own career , with pleasing the Conservative party conference , and with trying to do anything , anything I mean he 's brought in whatever it is , twenty-seven proposals , one or two of them are bound to work , if you throw enough stuff at the fan , some of it usually hits the target .
9 We 'll find out soon enough what it is .
10 just spend a couple of minutes now and jot down what it is you would like to get out of this course by tomorrow afternoon what you would like to say you 've achieved on this course .
11 To your benefit , so turn up at half eight , nine o'clock whatever it is .
12 So if we got two , four , O multiplied by four , equal to so what it is nine sixty
13 Please could you let me know i ) if the council has set any time limit on these protracted negotiations and if so what it is and ii ) when planning consent is given will it apply from the date the original application was approved or the date the conditions were approved .
14 So what it is they 're saying
15 For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things .
16 He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully .
17 Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote .
18 Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’
19 For the first time , the system will be capable of identifying just what it is doing ( activities ) and what each element of the process costs .
20 If we listen carefully to the process of critical doubt and then examine just what it is that is pronounced indubitable , we must surely ask : but why stop here ?
21 Spilling the knots from one 's entrails out onto paper is n't likely to make a poem or story that others will want to read , but many writers do have to go through the ‘ spilling ’ process in order to know just what it is they have to hammer into shape .
22 However , for us to improve our ability to control corporate crime , it is first necessary to grasp just what it is we might want to control .
23 ‘ Bring her in to me , I 'll soon sort out just what it is she wants , ’ Emily said , rising to her feet and shaking the creases from her crinoline gown .
24 But , if Goody is going to draw significant consequences from what he defines as ‘ literacy ’ , then it is important to be clear as to just what it is that is supposed to have these consequences .
25 Find out just what it is that provokes such different reactions as Kate Ogborn , the BFI 's executive producer , presents a selection of films and talks frankly with the directors about their work and what the scheme has to offer .
26 It is important to consider just what it is that is ‘ the same ’ .
27 Laba was quite a celebrity in the village , and from him we learnt just what it is like to be embraced by a really big snake .
28 But let us be clear about just what it is that it is seeing .
29 This question can not be answered without knowing just what it is that a manager does .
30 It is nevertheless of interest to see from their reaction to the various issues raised in the questionnaire , just what it is about the scheme ( and about SSE generally ) , which they feel is threatening .
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