Example sentences of "[is] [Wh det] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.

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1 I 've called it R P to distinguish it from Spearman 's which we 're gon na do next week , but you can convert the value of R to a T score and if you 've got a T score you can look it up in T tables to work out whether it 's significant .
2 ‘ 'E was phonin' the police , that 's what 'e was doin' .
3 ‘ Not out of me , ’ Winnie said , her dander up , ‘ if that 's what yous are thinking . ’
4 ‘ But that 's what they 're gon na do . ’
5 Guys pointing guns , it 's a stupid picture but that 's what they 're going to publish so do n't take it . ’
6 In the Unification Church and they 're stealing a march on us right enough and that 's what they 're doing — stealing that march — and they 're up to no good in their unification and I know they 're not and they know I know they 're not and that 's why it all happened .
7 ‘ They do n't think about it , see , and that 's what they 're good at .
8 Your people want a body , that 's what they 're going to get . ’
9 That 's what they 're all like .
10 Well that 's what they 're trying to do at the moment by measuring rates of turnover of deep to surface waters
11 Men can always fool themselves , that 's what they 're best at .
12 Because it 's actually part of the Inland Revenue so I mean that 's what they 're about
13 But they want you to use the graph and that 's what they 're giving the marks for .
14 ‘ They 're for fun ; that 's what they 're for . ’
15 ‘ Only men understand the complexities of business ’ , that 's what they 're saying .
16 That 's what they 're trying to aim at .
17 They 're there to pe , to protect our land , and that 's what they 're doing .
18 Yeah , that 's what they 're there for , they 're doing their job it 's him that 's not doing his job .
19 I do n't like people meddling in the way I run this prison and that 's what they 're doing .
20 They are interested in volume , obviously , and that 's what y that 's what they 're going to go for through their products .
21 There is something infallible , that 's what they that 's what they 're saying here , that 's what he 's saying .
22 But they 're apt to make me feel a bit I suppose that 's what they 're for , a bit docile like , you know what I mean ?
23 And that 's what they 're there for .
24 That 's what they 're doing put
25 Aye , that 's what they 're all for .
26 Eventually the women pick out what they want , the traders praise their keen eyes and good sense — at least , I assume that 's what they 're praising .
27 Of course , the police are n't prepared to commit themselves yet but I 'll bet that 's what they 're thinking .
28 At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals .
29 From time to time national committees will have to take hard decisions about the strategy for that particular sector , that 's what they 're there for .
30 Starters were bowls of a rich stock soup with julienne of vegetables ( if that 's what they 're called when they 're chopped into sticks ) and the earthenware bowls had puff pastry hats on which kept the soup scalding hot .
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