Example sentences of "[to-vb] what it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 2 | Roberto offered Seve some great advice : ‘ You have to know what it 's like on these links . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to know what it 's like … what th'had to do every day . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want to know what it 's about , ’ Mr Wormwood barked . |
| 5 | Well I feel it 's the right of every woman that wants a baby to know what it 's like to hold her own baby in her own arms . |
| 6 | Then , to Juliet and David , ‘ Miss Pope will see you , but she 's very busy , and she would have preferred to know what it 's all about . ’ |
| 7 | to know what it 's all about , yeah . |
| 8 | oh leave it all cos nobody 's going to know what it 's about |
| 9 | you think , nobody 's going to know what it 's about anyway |
| 10 | I 'm I 'd like to know what it 's like running Oxford City Council when , and I 'm sure you think you 're doing an good job and many people probably do think you 're a good job , but there are lots of issues that need discussing . |
| 11 | You ca n't imagine what it 's like not to know what it is to meet an attractive person who 's also attracted to you , can you ? |
| 12 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |
| 13 | Before you can make , you have to know what it is you are making . |
| 14 | ‘ He wants to know what it is like in a jet , ’ said the Thing . |
| 15 | ‘ Would n't it be better to love like that for a little while than never to know what it is like ? ’ she asked herself silently . |
| 16 | " The important thing is to know what it is that you are dying for " , noted Nizan in 1935 . |
| 17 | Dieter Erdle must have read it — he seems to know what it is . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't wish to know what it is to be mortal , thanks . |
| 19 | PAUSE D' you not want to know what it is ? |
| 20 | I 'd like to know what it is . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Are we allowed to know what it is ? ’ |
| 22 | Two stages are involved , the reason for which is neatly summarized in this quotation from C.S. Lewis : The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used . |
| 23 | ‘ Want to know what it is ? ’ |
| 24 | And , my mum would go er oh look you wanted to know what it is ! |
| 25 | One person on each side chooses a book , film or television programme and the rest have to guess what it is , by means of mime . |
| 26 | — describe an object or a picture — viewers have to guess what it is — then show it ; |
| 27 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 28 | These two tasks are inextricably interwoven : if advisers fail to establish what it is that a client wants to know because of poor interviewing , then they will not be able to supply the correct information even if it is available . |
| 29 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |
| 30 | One of the secrets of staying healthy is to discover what it is that tends to throw you out of balance and causes illnesses to appear . |