Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 2 | The fact that meaning is not constructed from the formal language of the message alone is crucial in explaining what it is that makes people perceive some stretches of language as coherent discourse and others as disconnected jumbles . |
| 3 | Another way is just to try to define its scope by explaining what it is that distinguishes it from other kinds of policy . |
| 4 | asking for money without explaining what it is for |
| 5 | All the family were enjoying life , and even Maureen seemed to have forgotten whatever it was that troubled her and to be quietly happy again . |
| 6 | " The important thing is to know what it is that you are dying for " , noted Nizan in 1935 . |
| 7 | He could hang around , of course , for the following hour or two , pretending to know what it was that he or anybody else should seek to discover . |
| 8 | Take legal advice if you want to , but I intend to know what it was that your uncle confided to you . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | God has made everybody good at different things , so try to discover what it is that God has given you the ability to do , and try to do it as well as possible . |
| 12 | However , it must also be recognised that in most cases when English speakers come across an unfamiliar word , they can pronounce it with the correct stress ( there are exceptions to this , of course ) ; in principle , it should be possible to discover what it is that the English speaker knows and to write in the form of rules . |
| 13 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 14 | ‘ Being around you for any length of time , I 'd sooner know what it is that makes you tick . |
| 15 | When she opens her eyes , I do n't know what it is that she sees . |
| 16 | And er it 's summat sugar , I do n't know what it is but it 's electrician 's job and he asked me to post that , when did I post that ? |
| 17 | and now the van 's got the red light heat coming on , on the battery , took it into the garage and checked it , it 's charging the battery alright , its alternator 's okay , but we do n't know what it is but when you turn it on , when you turn the key on in the morning |
| 18 | co can you explain to those who do n't know what it is cos it 's |
| 19 | I do n't even know what it is and I 'm the editor . ’ |
| 20 | And then on this plate there 's a , there 's an actual bullet no a and it , it , it looks like a bullet , I do n't kno I do n't know what it is and it 's like that if you hit something |
| 21 | We do n't know what it is or where it came from , but there 's obviously something in it ! ’ |
| 22 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 23 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 24 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 25 | And I do n't know what it was but they all seemed to say the same , the visitors , they all used to say , you 've got lovely fruit here . |
| 26 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 27 | Brilliant okay now here I started off with something I do n't know what it was but I know that when I differentiated it I finished up with X |
| 28 | No I do n't know what it was but Catherine was t telling me the other day about how erm oh I told you something about that and you t and you t were talking to her about it . |
| 29 | Oh yes they put this , this tannin down it was like a bark I do n't know what it was cos I 'm not in the leather trade , I , I do n't know much about it except that it was some by-product from the of the er tanning process , and they used to put this stuff down when people were ill . |
| 30 | They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home . |