Example sentences of "what [be] [verb] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well what 's happening is they want they wanted to save money |
| 2 | So now what 's happening is we 're before we 're doing an album we sit down and we pick out a lot of songs we decide right you know we need songs with good story books so the video is near enough planned with the recording of the song and it it 's a lot easier for us and a lot more enjoyable enough a lot more enjoyable . |
| 3 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 4 | Well what 's happening is it the , during the war , right , we 're constraining the computer to estimate , like a single coefficient that is applicable to both war and peacetime er is n't the case , right , th there is a structural change , right , so when th when we constrain the computer to estimate the coefficients throughout the whole period , right , the coefficients are biased but if they do n't apply either to the post er pre war peacetime sample neither do they er fit very well to the data during the wartime , right , if we allow the intercept to change but we 're getting much better estimates both wartime and peacetime er parameter 's okay because we have n't got rid of , we 've got rid of that bias , right , in constraining the parameters to fit both wartime and peacetime er time periods . |
| 5 | Yet in our day-to-day lives , we are witnesses to communication breakdowns , misinterpretations and blockages , where the transmitter 's attitudes , values , experiences , language , posture , etc. do not link together in a consistent message , or where the message itself has inaccuracies , or where the receiver 's attitudes , values and perceptions cause so much filtering of the message that the intended information does not get through — what is heard is what the receiver wanted to hear , not what was said . |
| 6 | What is needed are lots of lively wrigglers . ’ |
| 7 | In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube . |
| 8 | But for many participants what is needed is something more definite in the way of a scheme of work of some kind which will direct and maintain the momentum of the course into a continuing programme of monitored activities in the classroom . |
| 9 | Perhaps what is needed is their inclusion , as Patricia Holland suggests in her book ‘ What is a Child ? |
| 10 | What is needed is one named individual who is responsible for assessing that person 's total needs , deciding who should do what , coordinating the efforts of the various health professionals and for ensuring that , from the ‘ consumer 's ’ point of view , the various services are integrated and one hand knows what the other hand is doing . |
| 11 | What is needed is nothing short of a complete , gentle revolution against what we have been taught . |
| 12 | Clearly what is required is one unified system which at least matches the manual system for reliability , accessibility and flexibility so that local managers regard it as their primary source of information . |
| 13 | They fail to grasp that what is required is their own detailed response to what is before them . |
| 14 | What is happening is they 're patrolling the areas intensively , they 're maintaining contact with these er terrified Moslems to try to avert any type of er foul play in the area . |
| 15 | And what was decided was We know what 's known as report for summons . |
| 16 | In other words what was wanted was something equivalent , on the international level , to the ‘ social contract ’ from which the States themselves were thought to have originated . |
| 17 | I felt what was happening was we were going not in the direction of addition , but of total change . |
| 18 | What was happening was they were starting they were ready to start up their own company to hire managers . |
| 19 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
| 20 | ‘ In the summer of 1939 , just before the outbreak of war , my cousin and I planned , in this very room , what was to have been my first Lieder recital . |
| 21 | What was needed was something down home and businesslike . |
| 22 | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution . |
| 23 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 24 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |