Example sentences of "what [verb] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 'appens is women 'ave bébés and sometimes they die . |
| 2 | Some few may write a Declaration , others may sign it , but they are stating what has been God 's law from the beginning , ‘ That all men are created equal … that … ’ ’ he paused and consulted his watch again , opening and closing the engraved case with a brisk snap . |
| 3 | This may be right but what counts is leverage , not force . |
| 4 | What matters is survival in the here and now . |
| 5 | Julia Hailes has brought realism to green politics , a view that what matters is change , not how you arrive at it . |
| 6 | For James and the Nazarean Party in Jerusalem , what matters is Jesus 's teaching and his claim to Messiahship in the established context of the time — as rightful king and liberator . |
| 7 | What matters is access to Japan 's markets ; America would be content if Japan increased its imports and exports by the same amount ( leaving the trade balance , and the associated accounting identities , undisturbed ) . |
| 8 | Many people discount the value of statistical analysis by saying that what matters is quality , not quantity . |
| 9 | What matters is conformity and not how this conformity is obtained . |
| 10 | ( Needless because , as we have argued here before , ownership is unimportant : what matters is control . |
| 11 | What happens is folk , folk treat it as a diet and then when they stop the diet , they stop the habit |
| 12 | A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups . |
| 13 | So basically what happens is Mike Rutherford will ring me up after they 've done the album and sent me a tape . |
| 14 | You see what happens is people show up all dressed up in their togs and whatever from school , or maybe , maybe , maybe they 're power dressing |
| 15 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 16 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 17 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 18 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 19 | What , what happened was Robert , Rob and me shouted , Robert and me were there and who was it , Helen was there I think as well , his ex girlfriend we were going go on Jon , go on jump and everybody in the pool started it go on Jonathan |
| 20 | Hateley instantly exploited the error , rolling the ball back to Ian Ferguson and what followed was hell for defender Sergei Fokine . |
| 21 | Mr Jimmy Knapp , general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , said what mattered was policies not personalities for the railways . |
| 22 | What mattered was Russia . |
| 23 | What mattered was John McEnroe . |
| 24 | When Wood retired in 1968 ( by which time he had become head porter ) he gave an account of his 35 years of service ; what follows are extracts from his address , in his own words : |
| 25 | What follows is speculation , often far-fetched speculation , which the reader will consider or dismiss according to his predilection . |
| 26 | What follows is John 's story . |
| 27 | The situation on provision and supervision of re-entry courses is unique to each member country of the UK , and so what follows is advice relevant to your country of intended practice . |
| 28 | On Oct. 18 the Bundesrat ( upper house ) unanimously elected Alfred Gomolka , Minister President of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , as its president for the coming year , the first holder of this office from what had been East Germany . |
| 29 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 30 | For a moment the Emperor would notice at least the aftermath of Lexandro 's existence … before what had been Lexandro dispersed . |