Example sentences of "what it is [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , we 've decided not to give it to America so oh I know what it is Lisa , I 've been really honest and |
| 2 | Well I think that 's what it is Jane , but you ca n't |
| 3 | ‘ Any idea what it is Mr Connors ? ’ ventured Lofty . |
| 4 | I 'm not quite sure what it is Mr is asking . |
| 5 | Well I 've told you what it is darling . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you what it is colleagues , it 's a case of no pay , no play . |
| 7 | Erm I 've I particularly important because the districts here will need to feel very clear about what it is County Hall would not sorry would or would or would not jump on their necks for you see . |
| 8 | For what it is worth , Leicestershire 's batting looks attractive and the seam bowlers sound , butthey must improve their slow bowling form . |
| 9 | As soon as there is any prospect of allowing planning permission , all that usually happens is that the price of the house is bid up far beyond what it is worth , given the large sums that need to be spent on it . |
| 10 | My own , much attenuated view , for what it is worth , is as follows . |
| 11 | A personal view , for what it is worth , is that most British public libraries would benefit from spending at least 40 % of their bookfunds on stock revision . |
| 12 | For what it is worth , I think he may be right because it is possible to find objects in space from remembered information . |
| 13 | For what it is worth , my own sample of one sixth-form biologist found Hunting the Past excellent reading . |
| 14 | An unbelievable 40–1 was available with Surrey Racing and this column , for what it is worth , believes this to have been the most outstanding each-way value of the season and a serious each-way proposition . |
| 15 | For what it is worth , I brought off this trick — something of interest , I should suppose , only to other writers … |
| 16 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 17 | For what it is worth , the general conclusion which emerged was that overseas investment had a small positive effect on exports . |
| 18 | By way of abbreviation , for what it is worth , we can say that cc was dependently necessary to e , that e was such as to dependently necessitate cc . |
| 19 | For what it is worth , my view is that the student of political science is exposed to a wide range of somewhat superficial opinions , most of them barely distinguishable from the prejudices daily expressed in newspapers . |
| 20 | Alix Bowen has always known that she will have to go to the party , because she is one of Liz Headleand 's two closest friends , and she has pledged her support , for what it is worth . |
| 21 | Totally deafened at the age of seven , he has written : " My education , for what it is worth , was at Dr William Stainer 's private school , first at Finsbury Park and afterwards at Highgate . |
| 22 | This sort of evidence should be carefully examined for what it is worth . |
| 23 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 24 | However my own opinion , for what it is worth , is that the possibility of making moral judgements is inextricably mixed up with the possession of language capability in quite a different form from that which has been shown to exist in experimental domesticated apes . |
| 25 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 26 | It is n't a strong argument , but , for what it is worth , it goes like this . |
| 27 | For what it is worth , ma'am , I would recommend an equal division of whatever it is you have to leave . ’ |
| 28 | For what it is worth , most modern biologists would n't find it difficult to explain every one of the Bishop 's 35 examples in terms of the theory of natural selection , although not all of them are quite as easy as the polar bears . |
| 29 | It is far too wordy and vague , but here is my summary , for what it is worth . |
| 30 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |