Example sentences of "[vb infin] what [pers pn] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 2 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 3 | ‘ Being around you for any length of time , I 'd sooner know what it is that makes you tick . |
| 4 | When she opens her eyes , I do n't know what it is that she sees . |
| 5 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 6 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 7 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 8 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 9 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |
| 10 | And then lightning flashed outside again , and now they could all see what it was that had been ejected , impossibly , from that plaster wall and into the corridor . |
| 11 | Robert 's real worry was that he could not understand what it was that had caused offence . |
| 12 | Immediately you should find this loud noise has interrupted your train of thought , often enough to make you forget what it was that you were thinking about . |
| 13 | What you actually do is erm list what it is that you 're gon na critically evaluate . |