Example sentences of "[is] [pron] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what it had said on the door . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't mind entering you into our records as Ayesha Marron if that 's what it takes to wake you up . |
| 3 | Its orders from the United Nations … shoot first , and ask questions later … if that 's what it takes to enforce the naval blockade of the former Yogoslavia . |
| 4 | I 'll give you a fair fight if that 's what it takes to cool that hot head of yours . ’ |
| 5 | But if that 's what it takes to find out what happened — and who I am — I 'll just have to put up with it every night until the last piece of the puzzle falls in place . |
| 6 | It 's sales driven , O K , we 're not going to say that nobody else is important , we need all the other members of the , the company , but it is sales driven , O K , it 's what it 's made of . |
| 7 | I asked the under-foreman what I 'd done to deserve this , he says You 're not on your own , there 's er a quarter to go this week and good many next , so that 's what it 's come to . |
| 8 | That 's what it 's got |
| 9 | The group is called Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company and er corny is n't it . |
| 10 | You get a prize for telling us it 's Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company . |
| 11 | All said Chairman of the Board that 's what it 's got to do with a company . |
| 12 | Because that 's what it costs to take a person on do the training me coming here er interviewing |
| 13 | But that 's what it has come to . |
| 14 | Six months of 12-hour days , six days a week — that 's what it has taken to film the only four Wexford stories not previously adapted for TV . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose in a way that 's what it did feel like . |
| 16 | Sex was the second principal category covered by the code — this is what it had to say on that subject as well as Vulgarity , Obscenity , profanity , Costume and Dances : |
| 17 | But the extension of the tax — for that is what it had become — to inland areas aroused resentment and opposition . |
| 18 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 19 | I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot … |
| 20 | ‘ If this is what it takes to get to see you , 1'11 put up with it . |
| 21 | That is what it takes to become internationally popular and to have a longlasting career . |
| 22 | I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament . |
| 23 | But that is what it has become in many churches where it is surrounded by a po-faced atmosphere akin to a dentist 's waiting room . |
| 24 | I say sex , not love-making , for that is what it has become , just the same old act . |
| 25 | The RISC-based — R3000 or R3000A presumably , since that is what it has used up to now — XfaceC or XfC , is designed to bring colour graphics capabilities to users that require a compact , high resolution , easily transportable X terminal . |
| 26 | I have never found anything yet that will stop a squirrel doing precisely what it wants to do when it wants to do it , whatever that is what it wants to do . |
| 27 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |