Example sentences of "is [Wh det] it [verb] to " 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 | Their brief was simple and straight : attack the morale of the enemy , That is just a simplification , but that is what it amounted to . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Lewontin describes how the genetic world-view — deterministic and reductionist — encourages the view that human life is what it has to be . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ With him nothing is what it seems to be . ’ |
| 8 | Nothing is what it seems to be . ’ |
| 9 | And that is what it seems to me is the purpose of all our support for this fund . |
| 10 | is he right that that is what it intended to be referred to ? |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing , as Heraclitus says , is what it appears to be . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing is what it appears to be around here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ Ranulf answered , scratching his head , ‘ as I have said , nothing is what it appears to be . |
| 14 | The survey people stressed the importance of neutrality and objectivity in research , and the participant observation enthusiasts argued that the essential thing about social life is what it means to those involved , and that the only valid way of getting at these meanings is to participate in the lives of those who shared them . |
| 15 | ‘ That after all , is what it means to be free-standing . |