Example sentences of "[noun] [be] what [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fastest cars at Prescott were the big engined racing cars and the leading contenders were what 's affectionately known as the Cheltenham Mafia … |
| 2 | I suppose you , you would say that violence is what is socially acceptable in a given context . |
| 3 | A third mechanism for maintaining the threshold between conflict and war is what is generally termed ‘ presence ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Damian Flint is what 's really beginning to bug me … ’ |
| 5 | erm what we do n't know , perhaps , is how to create confidence is what is obviously a technological revolution , an expanding area , something entirely new . |
| 6 | ‘ A grammar school education and a captaincy in the Royal Army Pay Corps is what 's fundamentally wrong with Moreton , dear boy , ’ said Toby magisterially . |
| 7 | It may be asked whether , since a grasp of general principles is what is evidently needed , and an ability to connect together ideas derived from different disciplines , it would not be sensible to teach philosophy as a separate subject at school . |
| 8 | ‘ Help with the modern technology and improved communications is what is most important for us now , ’ said Peteris Apse , the manager of the press . |
| 9 | Even the recipe for George Washington 's mother 's gingerbread allegedly found " in an old worn cookery book " dated 1784 , of which the first item on the list of ingredients is ½ cup of margarine , could be said to be honest in the sense that it is candidly admitted that margarine is what is actually now used in the kitchens at Claverton Manor , the American Museum near Bath where both the gingerbread and the leaflet giving the recipe are purveyed to the public . |
| 10 | So either we shall have to disallow such a possibility and decree that nothing qualifies as a genuine proposition unless its truth-value is fixed for all time , i.e. that all propositions are what is sometimes called " eternal " propositions , or we shall have to accept that truth-value is not an integral part of the objective propositional content . |
| 11 | Feminine is what is not masculine . |
| 12 | Cut glass was what is now called crystal , though it is nothing of the kind , and it has advantages apart from being elegant . |
| 13 | But although this burst of new direction has logically exploded out of Paris , the world 's fashion capital , the energy and creativity emerging from countries with traditionally low fashion profiles is what is truly intriguing and inspiring . |
| 14 | whereas a psychological dependency is what 's really you know , difficult and what makes it hard for people to come off drugs . |