Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 2 | On the street , the BNP looks like what it is : a bootboys ' party that mobilises within a small number of inner-city areas from those sections of disaffected white working-class male youth who otherwise engage in football violence and similar activities . |
| 3 | ‘ Depends on what it is you 're wanting to know , Mr Eddy . |
| 4 | You do n't know , depends on what it is . |
| 5 | It depends , it depends on what it is , does n't it ? |
| 6 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |