Example sentences of "[is] what [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what gets put in books about us . |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps that 's what does alarm you . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , but , even when you leave school that 's what happens do n't it ? |
| 4 | That 's what seems to worry people — that photography should be hung on a wall , not stood in the middle of a room . ’ |
| 5 | That 's what seems to have happened with the Dersinghams . ’ |
| 6 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 7 | Many-many is the real life mapping , it 's what tends to happen . |
| 8 | And that 's what tends to happen . |
| 9 | That 's what has to happen . |
| 10 | We 've all come to use the word condom in public conversation and nobody gets embarrassed about that any more , and that 's what has to happen now . |
| 11 | ‘ He is a music influence and that 's what has turned them on . |
| 12 | Yeah that 's what has gone on mine er you move along to wh with the cursor |
| 13 | I really think that 's what has made the business stay , and go as far as it has . |
| 14 | That 's what has happened in world football for the last 10 years and we 've just started doing it . |
| 15 | ‘ But we knew that once one player took the step others would follow and that 's what has happened . ’ |
| 16 | It 's not that we 've planned a compromise , it 's what has come naturally within the group . |
| 17 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 18 | that 's what has started it |
| 19 | But again obviously that does n't apply but that 's what has got ta be done . |
| 20 | ‘ But the affair went wrong — and that 's what has brought you back across the Tasman . |
| 21 | Anyway that 's what 's involved |
| 22 | It was , you left the back door open that 's what 's made it , the room cold . |
| 23 | Maybe that 's what 's turned them white . ’ |
| 24 | and at the bottom of that there 's what 's called the eardrum . |
| 25 | That 's what 's called a relative computer . |
| 26 | That 's what 's called democracy . |
| 27 | That 's what 's caused the grey area |
| 28 | That 's what 's given me strength |
| 29 | Compulsory castration that 's the main problem here , too many bloody people about , that 's what 's needed population control well that 's , that 's what 's done , that 's what they er , you know a lot but not compulsory , well sometimes compulsory |
| 30 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |