Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [Wh det] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission 's brief has not been to consider what is in the best interest of art dealers nor whether the royalty is a useful means of helping artists . |
| 2 | From them an empirically testable consequence can be drawn which is in contradiction with the predictions of quantum mechanics . |
| 3 | Moderator it may seem a little strange to resist this er addendum but I do so really because er it 's never a good idea to er to be amending what is in a sense a liturgical piece of work on the floor of the house . |
| 4 | reading the paper and all while I 'm watching whatever 's on |
| 5 | Er , Lot , Lot number fifty two I 'm offering which is in front of the rostrum here Lot number fifty two for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , one twenty , one thirty at a hundred and thirty pounds any more at one hundred and thirty , one forty in the centre one fifty going on sir ? |
| 6 | And er also incidentally a cost for the P Q S , because the P Q S would do estimates for the earthworks th that are involved which is outside our normal line of duty . |
| 7 | Which means , as we 've already remarked , that it 's caused by some combination of desire and belief : in this case , by Pooh 's desire , not just for honey , but to get a true belief about whether what 's in the pot is honey , and his belief that the way to get that true belief is to taste what 's in the pot . |
| 8 | Over the onshore area — 2000 m of inversion is recognised which is in accord with the independent estimate of 2000 m of missing section given by Barnard and Cooper based on a study of vitrinite reflectance data from Jurassic rocks in the area . |
| 9 | Using measures which explain variations in utilisation in normative formulas is to confuse what is with what ought to be . |
| 10 | ‘ Using measures which explain variations in utilisation in normative formulas is to confuse what is with what ought to be . |
| 11 | If he is doing what is against conscience , he is injuring his soul — remember that the Chancellor is an ecclesiastic — and it is better that he should be prevented from inflicting such injury on himself . |
| 12 | At position 1 a determiner , det , is found which is on the right hand side of rule ( r2 ) . |
| 13 | If a charge code is entered which is outside the range 1 to 9999 the prompt will be re-displayed . |
| 14 | However , I 'm sure everyone around the table will be conscious that one of the things the panel has a duty to do is to consider what is in the light of national guidance . |
| 15 | One response which can be made to the gap which exists between the world in which Christianity came into being and the present world is to allow what is to be held to be essentially normative for the religion to reside in the past . |
| 16 | So when you 're looking at a file on the screen , what you 're looking at is the file as it is in the , in the memory of the computer , and if you change your spreadsheet , then all you 're doing is changing what 's in the memory . |
| 17 | Well this is er this is see whatever 's on B B C one . |