Example sentences of "be what [is] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contentious issues in the public sector are what is the appropriate discount rate to be used and what account should be taken of costs and benefits which can not be measured directly in money terms . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing , ’ he said violently , ‘ that 's what 's the matter . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not doing tribadism , that 's what 's the matter . ’ |
| 4 | It 's got a bad stigma to it and that 's what 's the main problem with it , y'know , this junkie in a dirty squat with a needle hanging out of his arm and OD'ing and dealing on his doorstep and everything and looking like the pictures you see of people falling to bits , but for me personally it 's not like that , y'know , I do try to conduct a normal law-abiding life . |
| 5 | Many will be familiar with Graham Gibbs ' Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing or Donald Bligh 's What 's the Use of Lectures ? ( see Suggestions for further reading at the end of this chapter ) and most will have been intellectually persuaded that they ought to give fewer , better lectures and devote their remaining teaching energies to small-group learning — i.e. tutorials and seminars . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're in the wrong place , that 's what 's the matter , ’ he said with ominous self-control . |
| 7 | What 's what 's the units ? |
| 8 | So have you got what 's what 's the best |
| 9 | What 's what 's the big thing that 's common to all of them ? |
| 10 | What 's what 's the last letter ? |
| 11 | And when it 's what 's the what 's this over here . |
| 12 | What 's what 's the pur What does the coke do , to the iron ? |
| 13 | You really do I mean And what 's what 's the last time |
| 14 | What 's what 's the effects on meself ? |
| 15 | There 's what 's the boys ' club , there 's a library . |
| 16 | I think that 's what 's the part of it all is because with maths , there is so many rules , there 's so many |
| 17 | We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up . |
| 18 | What 's what 's the most recent one ? |
| 19 | That 's what 's the matter with her . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've got a filthy mind , that 's what 's the matter with you . |
| 21 | I mean what 's what 's the similarity between trying to catch a fox and trying to write a poem ? |
| 22 | What 's what 's the factors in y'know involved in that decision , that behaviour ? |
| 23 | What 's what 's the technical difference between the two . |
| 24 | Now I smelt a mice then you see , I I my own personal thoughts were , What 's what 's the idea of appointing instead of a a real go ahead executive member , why did they put him in . |
| 25 | What 's what 's the difference then ? |
| 26 | but that 's what 's the , that 's the trouble I think with the council today . |
| 27 | What 's what 's the aim we 've been telling them |
| 28 | What 's what 's what 's the most expensive item ? |
| 29 | He looked at me gone out , absolutely gone out and I clouted him and he 's what 's the matter ? |
| 30 | can do that Er yeah can you what what 's what 's the one that he does with the hundred hands up ? ha , ha , ha , ha , ha |