Example sentences of "what [adv] [vb -s] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What usually happens is that , because the pressure to succeed has been removed , before that two weeks has elapsed the couple will find themselves overcome by the passion of the moment and a joyous and successful sexual encounter is likely to result . |
| 2 | What usually happens is that the model runs out of steam during the half roll , and tumbles backwards . |
| 3 | Sugar , in his sworn statement , said : ‘ Venables said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money , ’ said Sugar . |
| 5 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 6 | In fact , what inevitably happens is that someone buys the house for the floor space of the extensions , seeing the opportunity for yet further building in the grounds , where planning permission would never normally be given . |
| 7 | What typically happens is that , in the negotiation process , one speaker realises that his version is incompatible with what the other appears to be talking about and makes his contributions compatible with ‘ what I think you ( not we ) are talking about ’ . |
| 8 | What really matters is whether or not we all believe certain essentials about the sacraments . |
| 9 | As Brew notes , what now matters is whether large , often arrogant companies want to be truly transparent to their varied audiences . |
| 10 | ( 1978 , p. 42 ) observe , what frequently happens is that ‘ a joint councillor-officer elite arises , often in a very visible form , as the major power centre of the local authority ’ . |
| 11 | We know however that what actually happens is that the anxiety only ever reaches a certain level and then levels off , forming a plateau . |
| 12 | What actually happens is that the fish eat the tiny algae spores on the margins of the leaves . |
| 13 | What actually happens is that Carol answers her own question — in London English , with " don " remember when it was " . |
| 14 | If you are curious about the bombardier beetle , by the way , what actually happens is as follows . |