Example sentences of "[noun sg] what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 2 | If the caption does become detached the finder can see at a glance what it is . |
| 3 | But er can you see you 've got to make up your mind what it is , it 's not necessarily going to be easy . |
| 4 | Always keep in mind what it is you need and want to practise , then decide how you can most effectively do that . |
| 5 | You need to make it clear to the recipient what it is you want of them . |
| 6 | Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead but Ken Mentle , may he rest in peace , single-handedly made this club what it is today , the Accrington Stanley of Bradford Park Avenue . |
| 7 | Thank you erm I think that 's all I 'm concerned with except to say that I wrote er to a little church spelling what it is today er really into consideration on its this proposition so that we can ensure all of the issues with er our requirements . |
| 8 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 9 | That is precisely the kind of distortions and misleading implications that he and his party have placed upon this exercise throughout the consultation process , which have led to so many people misunderstanding what it is all about . |
| 10 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 11 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 12 | This should make all those involved with mathematics education question what it is that we can do to enhance and develop these talents . |
| 13 | At the time unemployment was only half what it is today , six years later . |
| 14 | In order to bring into clear focus what it is that has been lost but can be regained through meditative discipline , Hilton advances an orthodox Augustinian analysis of the structure of personality as essentially tripartite and , thus , trinitarian . |
| 15 | Ask the shop what it is . |
| 16 | I will tell the hon. Gentleman what it is . |
| 17 | Four factors combine to make the British countryside what it is today : the geology of the earth 's crust , the climatic history of the glacial and post-glacial ages , the present-day climate ( particularly rainfall ) , and the influence of man . |
| 18 | That every month what it is issued , is some statistics which talk about a s , sort of service analysis for the company . |
| 19 | THE energy secretary found out this week what it is like to be stomped on by Washington 's green lobby . |
| 20 | But within the fields of the subtle tattwas comprising the inner energetic format , matrix or tapestry which makes each creature what it is , each one also possesses subtle perceptive abilities , just as we do . |
| 21 | The language and the inner mind are part of a whole that makes a creature what it is . |
| 22 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
| 23 | In the distant past , when the genetic material was being accumulated that makes mankind what it is , nobody but a warlord lived in a dwelling he could not make himself . |
| 24 | It is suggested by Pederson-Krag that the workers ' rivalry is stimulated in order to overcome their aversion to effort and resentment of the authority that makes their work life what it is . |
| 25 | These are the kinds of outlook which , from the sexual angle , have made our society what it is . |
| 26 | In comparing of the two liberal democratic party systems of Great Britain and the United States , let us first outline what it is that parties in liberal democracies are said to do . |
| 27 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 28 | I hate to see ‘ Guernica ’ in a museum whose sights are set on the future , having left once and for all its mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen , to prove to the world what it is : an extraordinary composition suffocated by an excess of sentimentality , distorted by the deranged howls of the media . |
| 29 | Is it this , is it that , is it the next thing until they 're prepared to tell you what it is , that 's the way you ask them , cos they 'll no volunteer what it is , cos what you 're looking for is a final objection for them , right now you say oh that 's a load of rubbish that does nay what , but how can you sit and study that and you learn how to use it customers , right , on the objection which is the hardest objection for any sales person to deal with , you know yourself |
| 30 | He said , Well er , you know , it 's just that , I mean with nature being what it is you see . |