Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] is [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You know , er given enough time and preparation and if we define clearly what it is that we want to analyze , you know I can provide that information er in the form of a report or in a rawish state and we could discuss that . |
| 32 | Even though the new series looks good ( with one of its highlights promising to be the small-screen debut of Paul Whitehead ) and he has at least three other projects on the go , Harry Enfield still has n't figured out what it is that he does exactly . |
| 33 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 34 | It is not perfectly clear from what Mace says what it is that he wants to contrast with my body as it appears to others . |
| 35 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 36 | Could you now tell us what it is that you knew about Mr ? |
| 37 | Albert Reynolds has told the Prime Minister , Mr Major , Mr Major has taken on board , has has considered , presumably , what it is that you 've done with Gerry Adams , and concluded that it can go no further . |
| 38 | SALESPERSON : Could you tell me exactly what it is that you do n't like the look of ? |
| 39 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 40 | ‘ And you know , you have n't yet told me what it is that you want , ’ he said , and sat back , and eyed them expectantly , first one and then another , which Fribble found disconcerting . |
| 41 | Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about . |
| 42 | so you 're very clear about what it is that you want |
| 43 | when you 're clear about what it is that you want you can be assertive |
| 44 | We talked about it being clear , being clear about what it is that you want . |
| 45 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 46 | But what it is that I measure I do not know . |
| 47 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
| 48 | It is so very much what it is that it becomes something else . |
| 49 | I 'll ask Carolyn what it is that she uses on hers because hers gets rid of the weeds as well . |
| 50 | When she opens her eyes , I do n't know what it is that she sees . |
| 51 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 52 | Is it this , is it that , is it the next thing and that 's where you want to get them , cos they 'll tell you what it is and you 've got to , is it them , what is it ? |
| 53 | A similar device can be used by the teacher out of role : " Something big is going to happen in the drama , I promise you , but I 'm not going to tell you what it is until it happens . " |
| 54 | ‘ Maybe we 'll find out what it is if he goes to the hospital with us , ’ said David thoughtfully . |
| 55 | Well if it was dark and she could n't see you she might have put her arm out and hit you it does n't what it feels like is n't always what it is if you see what I mean . |
| 56 | For some of us it is because we have suffered from the emotional manipulations of others . |