Example sentences of "[verb] what it be that " 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 | " The important thing is to know what it is that you are dying for " , noted Nizan in 1935 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Take legal advice if you want to , but I intend to know what it was that your uncle confided to you . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Being around you for any length of time , I 'd sooner know what it is that makes you tick . |
| 13 | When she opens her eyes , I do n't know what it is that she sees . |
| 14 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I forget what it was that distracted me for a moment , but as I delayed , the water bounced the boat up and down and then straight against the quay , with my finger in between . |
| 17 | Each causes you to observe what it is that you are trying to remember . |
| 18 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
| 19 | It is not perfectly clear from what Mace says what it is that he wants to contrast with my body as it appears to others . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 21 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
| 22 | It is possible to imagine that for some people such consolation might make it easier to reconcile the two , and to wonder what it was that made the difference in Fraser 's case . |
| 23 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 24 | Couple of points though about this erm , how the parish council is recognized within the organization because it 's important and that did our day as well and , I suppose in a way it 's the one , one or so positive things out of this that we kind of latch on to , that the communication part is important and erm there may be others that feel the same way that we 're not actually communicating what it is that we 're doing , so , so maybe |
| 25 | Later , when dealing with the case against the appellant Low , and having told the jury that they could not consider as evidence against him any statements made by the second appellant , he added : ‘ Now in deciding what it was that the first accused is proved to have done , you must consider all the evidence available in the case against the first accused in coming to this decision , but only that evidence . ’ |
| 26 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 27 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |
| 28 | And then lightning flashed outside again , and now they could all see what it was that had been ejected , impossibly , from that plaster wall and into the corridor . |
| 29 | The parents will begin to identify what it is that irritates them so much . |
| 30 | First , one has to identify what it is that undergraduates actually study . |