Example sentences of "what [n mass] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often circumstances that dictate what fish have been put together . |
| 2 | ‘ Hey , Midnight , tell us what th 've been at . |
| 3 | Throughout the campaign we asked what people thought were the main issues being stressed by each of the parties . |
| 4 | What people want is low risk . ’ |
| 5 | This is n't about changing the company ; what people want is more money … ’ |
| 6 | But I think we 've got to remember that the , the people who really determine the quality of the users of our services , the clients , it 's they who say yes , this is what I want , this is th this is what I 'm after and that is why I hope that we will be able to target on things that come out of the consultation progress s process , things like evening and weekend working that people want and , rather than simply churning out more nine to five Monday to Friday day care , what people want is it targeted to their needs where they are and it 's that sort of quality that I think is so important . |
| 7 | We say that we will protect single retired people , we will ensure that the rebate system is improved not only to help those people , but to target help on all those who need it and we will ensure that what people pay is based on their ability to pay and not on their status . |
| 8 | In a sense , therefore , one may adopt Hare 's significant point that what people do is a matter of some importance . |
| 9 | What people say and what people do is not always one and the same thing . |
| 10 | I want to try and get one before May before the exam , but there is a superb production on i the summer , it 's on June and July and it 's at an open-air theatre erm in Lincolnshire and what people do is they go and take a picnic and you sort of take your rug and sit there and cos it it 'll be hot in the summer it would be really nice and you watch it outdoors and it 's in this big stately home which is in it 's own grounds and there 's gift shops and restaurants and bars and obviously wo n't go in the bars but you know there 's lo it 's beautiful and like a big stately home you can wander round the gardens for a bit and then go and watch the performance and if it rains then there 's a canopy you can pull the canopy over like at Wimbledon and you know it 's a really nice day . |
| 11 | with de-briefings is that what people do is sit down and say what shall we talk about now ? |
| 12 | Well , what people forget is that , if you put employers in a straight-jacket , the people who suffer first , are the employees , which as you appreciate will not take on the future . |
| 13 | ‘ I have no real idea what people have been telling you about my involvement with MI6 at the time . |
| 14 | What people remembered was that their ancestors had composed the quarrel : pressures were brought to bear , intermediaries called in , a settlement agreed , compensation paid , women exchanged . |
| 15 | What people wanted was food in the shops and a slice of the materialist cake they saw being gobbled in the West . |
| 16 | The study of what people say is ultimately to do with cognition . |
| 17 | What people say is not necessarily concise , direct factual or precise , but a message gets through . |
| 18 | If not , what graphics format are the icons stored in ? |