Example sentences of "what [is] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 They wo n't love , let's , let's , let's get it over with see what 's happening before we start jumping the gun , throws in if there 's any good we 'll have them
2 So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them .
3 We were most anxious to keep the full informed of what 's happening and we seem to be on top of the job as it were .
4 i it 's , it 's obviously a thing which , if one can possibly avoid it 's a good idea to and erm I must say it helped but it you do n't know what is helping because you know we do n't know what her symptoms are going to be .
5 Donald McIntyre ( 1970 ) illustrates what is missing when he suggests that the ‘ result ’ of a pupil 's mathematics exam , instead of 40 per cent , might be recorded as a ‘ diagnostic profile ’ thus :
6 They relate to what is coming and what has gone respectively .
7 Not only do we reveal a different interpretation of what is happening but we propose a very different psychological basis for this activity .
8 And that seems to be to demonstrate difference between what is happening whether we like it or not at central government level and input of somebody who is perpetual of opposing propositions and that is the to two particular items within this alternative budget .
9 Let's look at what is happening when we use these two options in a little exercise .
10 We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so .
11 In a city without electricity or television and with only limited access to radio , the newspaper is the only source of information as to what parts of the city are dangerous , what is happening and who has died .
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