Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [Wh det] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm finally erm I 've come down with whatever it is that 's going around and erm you 'll notice that my voice is even more gravelly than normal erm I hope it holds out erm for the duration of this lecture . |
| 2 | down on what it was when we took office in 1979 . |
| 3 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ People come here aged maybe 50 or 60 and their blood pressure goes down to what it was in adolescence , they are no longer constipated , digestive problems seem to disappear , their sex lives improve , their eyes are shiny and they have a feeling of optimism instead of carrying a heavy load of despondency . |
| 5 | He 's going to resist and negotiate them down to whatever it is they really want . |
| 6 | So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know |
| 7 | She hesitated , torn between the unaccountable shyness she always felt in Louise 's presence and the overwhelming desire to be in on whatever it was they were giggling about , even if she was only a barely tolerated spectator . |
| 8 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 9 | There 's no reason why they should n't carry on with whatever it is they 're doing . |
| 10 | Which the big glass will not only deny but show up for what it is : narcissism , regression , the refusal to see things as they are . |
| 11 | When Nick and the Bad Seeds take the stage though , the cosiness of most indie pop is shown up for what it is in the harsh light of some feral and shadowy music . |
| 12 | What for the insider might be the purification of a defensible religion by its exposure to scientific criticism , would for the outsider be one more step along the path to destruction as an inherently implausible account of human destiny was shown up for what it is . |
| 13 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 14 | Bottom up processing is where you start with the input information , whatever that might be and then you , based on that input information , you extract or inp or extract more meaning from the input until you end up with whatever it is that you recognise . |
| 15 | Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way . |
| 16 | ‘ There was a rule that one 's subscription never went up from whatever it was the year you joined . |
| 17 | He flashed Helen a nice white smile : ‘ We can certainly get the income up on what it is now . |
| 18 | ‘ Her doctor feels that if he could get her to face up to whatever it was that had such a damaging effect on her as a young child , then she would … well , take a grip on life again , see Harry in a different light , enjoy him , in fact , instead of escaping into illness as a way out of all her responsibilities . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know what it is , but it 's different , bringing her up to what it was bringing them up . |
| 20 | A legacy which earmarks , not a particular thing , but a particular fund or collection out of which it is to come ( e.g. ‘ one of my three violins ' ) is called demonstrative . |
| 21 | But a demonstrative legacy , if the fund out of which it is to come ceases to exist before the death , becomes payable as a general legacy . |
| 22 | The properties of the state so formed are related in a probabilistic way to the properties of the states out of which it is composed [ the photon has a chance unc a of transmission ( which is a certainty for polarisation along y ) and a chance cos ' a of not being transmitted ( which is a certainty for polarisation along x ) ] This is what is meant by the superposition principle : that states can be combined in this way with a probability interpretation of the result . |
| 23 | On I Crush Bozo and My Skin Covers My Body , Happy Flowers take hardcore back to its primal matrix of unrequited desire and disproportionate rage : infancy 's uncontrolled appetites for oral and anal gratification , its delusions of omnipotence , its terror of the breakdown of the borderline between identity and the primal abjection out of which it 's formed . |
| 24 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 25 | We may find the latter is the more elusive and the more central question , which opens out into what it is to like and to love , what it is to be content , and what it is to be happy . |
| 26 | They more or less called him a fool when he tried to change back into whatever it was our current whatever it was and if that 's the case erm Hungar Hungarians are holding on to this two thousand pound , it 's surety is n't it ? |
| 27 | But the signs are that street-wise teenagers who caused the Chipie boom are moving on again , leaving the brand to settle back to what it is meant to be , a broad-based fashionable collection with an appeal to all members of the family who like off-beat colours and tradition given a twist . |
| 28 | back to what it is then , yeah |
| 29 | But yes , after Lindsey and Stevie joined , the whole thing got back to what it was in terms of success , but in American terms , which was obviously bigger . |
| 30 | The symmetry T means that if you reverse the direction of motion of all particles and antiparticles , the system should go back to what it was at earlier times ; in other words , the laws are the same in the forward and backward directions of time . |