Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And nothing is what it seems |
| 2 | And I am what I am by the grace of God . |
| 3 | I said , carefully , ‘ There 's what happens and there 's what they think will happen . |
| 4 | All local agreements up and down the country which it counted to eighty odds were all scrubbed and there was what you call a national agreement established to cover the whole of Scotland which meant the man in the remotest part of Scotland got the same wages and conditions as in as the man in Edinburgh or Glasgow or any big city . |
| 5 | yeah and you should turn the top few inches over and there was what he called the |
| 6 | Again you used to drop it and whoever was what we called on had to fetch this peg back again , put it onto there , and then come and find us again . |
| 7 | And they 're what we call bulk finds . |
| 8 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 9 | ‘ We 're what we are and they are what they are . ’ |
| 10 | Er and they were what we would call medium to heavy type of er engineering . |
| 11 | That 's what image means and it 's what we try to do in political campaigns . |
| 12 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 13 | And it 's what you call |
| 14 | ‘ Something happened , and I do n't know what , and it 's what I 'm here to prevent . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm sure they have priority and it 's what I want anyway . |
| 16 | and it 's what I 'm looking for |
| 17 | Moreover I have given order that they who collect my dues take from you no more than the tenth , because so it is appointed by the custom of the Moors , and it is what ye have been wont to pay . |
| 18 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |
| 19 | Mr Major praised his work yesterday and , in a reply to Mr Garel-Jones , said : ‘ It is characteristic of you to wish to see through the legislation you have been working on , and it is what your colleagues would have expected of you . |
| 20 | That is one of the roles of your Association and it is what your membership fees go towards and it is there to be used and they 've done their best so I hope it will come in very useful for you for this year and I wish you a very good year . |
| 21 | I 'm really a workaholic and it is what I am used to now . ’ |
| 22 | She explains : ‘ There is n't really much time to rest or socialise , I 'm really a workaholic and it is what I am used to now . |
| 23 | That is the formula and it is what I believe will prove most successful . |
| 24 | He seemed satisfied , said he was grateful , and it was what he had hoped . ’ |
| 25 | But the format , almost more than the content , interested him : each front cover on each copy was to be different , and the magazine was contained , loose-leafed , in a bag , inspired , he thought , by Andy Warhol , and it was what he felt an underground magazine should be . |
| 26 | And erm so we set off and I ca n't remember which village it was but it was towards the Humber Estuary somewhere and it was what I call a cul-de-sac village . |
| 27 | But there are what they refer to as the ‘ problem families ’ . |
| 28 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 29 | They may not call it a " pedagogical grammar " , but it is what they will mean . |
| 30 | But it is what they had feared . |