Example sentences of "[pron] [be] what [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the features of Microsoft Word is that a only lets you work with text which is what is called selected and if you actually move the cursor down a bit so that it 's not at the beginning of a document and then we 'll follow our way through these various selecting text keys which are outlined in that paragraph , section three six one . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best way of describing it is that it will put you at peace with yourself — which is what is intended . |
| 3 | I would be , unwilling to support the , the Labour motion because I think there is a limit to how detail out of detail , we as a County Council should get involved in this , this should be a District Council matter with the County Council giving , giving support which is what is happening now . |
| 4 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 5 | there 's another meaning to the word respect , which is what is shown up by the Stoke Newington incident , and other similar incidents , in that , you can only respect somebody if they actually live up to the standards that they actually hold out to the rest of you . |
| 6 | One typical outcome is that the reference strip ( which is what is used for the diagnostic ) is seen as too big due to spreading and then overflows its allotted area . |
| 7 | But there is talk of citizenship involving a ‘ duty to work ’ in the United States , which could find itself transplanted to this country — indeed it already exists in some of the social security regulations — or a legal duty to control children , which is what is implied by an idea under consideration by the government to make parents responsible for fines imposed on their children . |
| 8 | In the far south we have Kappa Pavonis in the Peacock , which is what is termed a ‘ Type II Cepheid ’ , rather less powerful than a classical Cepheid with the same period . |
| 9 | On Sunday morning ( 27 Feb. ) we were taken by Comrade Wong and the mysterious Sun ( who speaks very little English ) to the Imperial Palace Museum , which is what is known in the west as ‘ The Forbidden City ’ . |
| 10 | because she was in pain again in had it strapped up again said come and see me in a week see if it 's any better but erm she 's injured it but not er you know it 's obviously she ca n't move it a lot that way which is what 's effecting her , but mind you once she gets back on her bike again , as it 's cold weather |
| 11 | If you have a joint bank account , you are what is known as ‘ jointly and severally liable ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ You see , I think that you are what 's called a borderline personality , with pronounced schizoid tendencies . |
| 13 | I suppose we are what is called engaged , though it is different somehow . |
| 14 | Erm there 's another Econ Soc the Economic Society putting on a lecture at five o'clock on Wednesday er in A forty two and the topic there is What 's Happening to the Distribution of Income in Britain and he is also talking to the Public Sector . |
| 15 | Ben now straightened his back and returned to his seat and , looking at Aggie , said , ‘ Besides which , there is what is called a diplomat in our midst , Mrs Winkowski . ’ |
| 16 | At a level above that there is what is called machine code : one whose lines are normally instructions to add or subtract or shift the contents of whole registers ( themselves strings of binary numbers ) . |
| 17 | The possibility exists then to discriminate between the two models if there is a break in the process determining Y t ; that is , if there is what is called a regime break , a break in the process about which expectations are being formed . |
| 18 | If there is what is regarded by the law as an office then public law remedies are available to protect its holder who is entitled to natural justice ; he can thus regain his office if he is dismissed without a hearing . |
| 19 | The dating evidence of the final period of the temple at Brean Down ( Somerset ) presented its excavator A. M. ApSimon with problems , since there was what is described as ‘ squatter occupation ’ . |
| 20 | They are what is meant by indirect discrimination . |
| 21 | They were what is known as indie-poppers , which means that they play guitars rather than synthesisers , wear black leather biker 's jackets and have a female lead singer with peroxide blonde hair . |
| 22 | You see , it is the kind they do believe in — it 's what is expected . |
| 23 | It 's what 's called an ‘ occupational hazard ’ . ’ |
| 24 | It 's what 's passed around , it 's not what 's said in the music . ’ |
| 25 | It 's what 's giving Mackie strength . |
| 26 | It 's what 's gon na happen in it 's gon na come down the chimney . |
| 27 | It 's what 's missing that is telling . |
| 28 | KEYS : ‘ But it is not just a question of what is going on on the park , it 's what 's happening elsewhere that we 're beginning to hear and read about and that 's never been the case at Liverpool previously , ever . |
| 29 | ‘ Fair or not , ’ Mark said , trying to speak lightly , ‘ it 's what 's going to happen . |
| 30 | Essential for rest and relaxation of the mind as well as the body never judge a bed solely by its cover — it 's what 's going on inside that 's more important . |