Example sentences of "be what [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressure was off and he was fine and he was he was his normal self and that 's what happens each time |
| 2 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 3 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 4 | And that 's what holds these planets . |
| 5 | Now the next question is what does this evidence mean and what does one do with it . |
| 6 | This is what keeps those camera and hi-fi enthusiasts from settling on their chosen mix of bits . |
| 7 | Shock and horror is what sells these kinds of newspapers , unfortunately and they do a roaring trade , think about it , think about the vocabulary you gon na actually use . |
| 8 | ‘ Our use of colour is what prompts most comment . |
| 9 | It is what concerns most people . |
| 10 | I suspect that [ the ] very absence of quality is what makes such stuff attractive to children , not just because it is easy to read , undemanding , untaxing , but because the simplistic plots and characters leave children free to embroider and enrich the stories in their own way as they read . |
| 11 | Restricted choice is what makes most diets boring — so any new range that increases choice is always welcome . |
| 12 | But obviously the past is what makes any person . |
| 13 | This is what makes this type of exercise ( like jogging and cycling ) aerobic . |
| 14 | So straight away you see what 's happened in this case his code becomes two eighty one H whereas previously we 've got quite a high code and yet his total income is er not er comparative to the change in code numbers and this is what has that effect , that all that tax on all this income has to be collected against his works pension , thereby causing a lot of confusion and difficulty for er people becoming retired . |
| 15 | Its eclecticism is what attracts many scholars . |
| 16 | The combination of early fantasy and external fact is what leaves many people in severe difficulty after being sexually abused as children . |