Example sentences of "is [Wh det] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 2 | To be forced to argue that one is a full human being of equal dignity ( for that is what it felt like ) is quite extraordinarily undermining . |
| 3 | It was quite an appropriate place for me to be born again , which is what it felt like . |
| 4 | This is what it says in Genesis : |
| 5 | That is what it says in in in the in the explanatory memorandum . |
| 6 | John heard a noise just like Constable Hobbs ' bicycle screeching down the side of the box until it met an obstacle on the wall and stopped or that is what it sounded like in the stillness of the night . |
| 7 | Instances of discourse deixis are the use of that and this in the following : ( 21 ) Puff puff puff : that is what it sounded like ( 22 ) This is what phoneticians call creaky voice Finally , social deixis concerns the encoding of social distinctions that are relative to participant-roles , particularly aspects of the social relationship holding between speaker and addressee(s) or speaker and some referent . |
| 8 | At least that is what it does for me ! |
| 9 | I think again the sort of picture that you get from books is rather like a stage set , with everything new from the year nineteen fifty-eight or whatever , all bundled into a room together , this is what it looked like . |
| 10 | Their brief was simple and straight : attack the morale of the enemy , That is just a simplification , but that is what it amounted to . |
| 11 | ‘ The will was made about a year ago and this is what it amounts to : ‘ The shop premises and stock and all assets pertaining to the business together with the contents of my studio excepting only my tube of Winsor blue to my niece and dear friend Cathy Carne ’ . ’ |
| 12 | But it certainly has n't determined policy in any way , because what we 've said is that provided we 're satisfied that there is n't profiteering going on by the oil companies , and our Office of Fair Trading have told us that there is n't , then it is right that , that we should pay the right price for our petrol , and that is what it costs at any one time . |
| 13 | Lewontin describes how the genetic world-view — deterministic and reductionist — encourages the view that human life is what it has to be . |
| 14 | Yet this is supplanted by a more melodic feel , songs like ‘ All ’ and So This Is What It Comes To ’ alluding more to REM than former bête noir Hüsker Dü . |
| 15 | Yet this is supplanted by a more melodic feel , songs like ‘ All ’ and So This Is What It Comes To ’ alluding more to REM than former bête noir Hüsker Dü . |
| 16 | That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment . ’ |
| 17 | That is what it stands for and that is what the Bill embodies . |
| 18 | ‘ With him nothing is what it seems to be . ’ |
| 19 | Nothing is what it seems to be . ’ |
| 20 | And that is what it seems to me is the purpose of all our support for this fund . |
| 21 | It made me realize that things need n't be , that nothing is what it seems in life , that there are no rules . ’ |
| 22 | Either it is an unusual example of stream-lining or , it is what it looks like , a weapon . |
| 23 | knit the next few rows as usual , then cross the cable the opposite way ( in the same channel ) you are producing what is sometimes called a snake cable , since that is what it looks like . |
| 24 | The first ‘ object ’ is what is there to be seen ; the second is what it looks like . |
| 25 | The genotype is the set of genes it inherited , the phenotype is what it looks like . |
| 26 | This is what it looks like . |
| 27 | is he right that that is what it intended to be referred to ? |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing , as Heraclitus says , is what it appears to be . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing is what it appears to be around here . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , ’ Ranulf answered , scratching his head , ‘ as I have said , nothing is what it appears to be . |