Example sentences of "[adv] what it [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |
| 2 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 3 | She began to piece together what it was that Clare did . |
| 4 | With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again . |
| 5 | Find out just what it is that provokes such different reactions as Kate Ogborn , the BFI 's executive producer , presents a selection of films and talks frankly with the directors about their work and what the scheme has to offer . |
| 6 | But let us be clear about just what it is that it is seeing . |
| 7 | This question can not be answered without knowing just what it is that a manager does . |
| 8 | She watched every video you ever made , trying to analyse just what it was that made you so special , so different from all the rest . ’ |
| 9 | Think , too , about the circumstances under which you can not keep to your resolves , and analyse exactly what it is that makes you behave the way you do . |
| 10 | Now , I thought , I shall be able to think this out : to find out exactly what it is that has happened to me , to see what effect it is going to have on my life , and how I am going to deal with it . |
| 11 | A recent investigation of moorhens is one of the first studies to show exactly what it is that makes for a high quality mate ( Science , vol 220 , p 413 ) . |
| 12 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 13 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
| 14 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 15 | And Masklin … no one knows exactly what it is that Masklin wants , except that it s very big . |
| 16 | Even where you have to answer set questions — as in an exam — a choice between alternatives usually has to be made ; and not only do you have to pick a particular question to answer , but you also have to decide exactly what it is that the question is asking you to do . |
| 17 | Researchers within the tradition of accommodation theory have been most active in looking at the detail of " monolingual " interactions in an attempt to see exactly what it is that speakers are doing . |
| 18 | Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do . |
| 19 | IT 'S the Echo 's Fun Fortnight and today we examine exactly what it is that makes you smile , laugh and be happy ! by Philippa Bellis |
| 20 | SALESPERSON : Could you tell me exactly what it is that you do n't like the look of ? |
| 21 | Yeah find out , I mean exactly sort of trying to find out exactly what it is that they want to think about , suggest , you know |
| 22 | Even before he was fully awake he felt the oppression of unpleasant memory , the threat of worse to come , although he could n't remember exactly what it was that he remembered . |
| 23 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 24 | If so , now is the time to decide exactly what it was that made the work so stale and uninteresting . |
| 25 | In this connection I think it important to bear in mind exactly what it was that the learned trial judge had to decide . |
| 26 | ‘ First of all why do n't you start by telling me just exactly what it was that upset you today ? ’ |
| 27 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |
| 28 | Any decision in favour of participating in a CU depends upon the ultimate objectives of economic policy , namely what it is that countries are attempting to maximise . |
| 29 | You know , er given enough time and preparation and if we define clearly what it is that we want to analyze , you know I can provide that information er in the form of a report or in a rawish state and we could discuss that . |
| 30 | I never dared to ask , but I understand now what it is that drives addicts back to the needle time and time again whatever the cost to their health and sanity ; I understand now what the mystics lay claim to when they speak of the peace that passeth all understanding . |