Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list is longer , but what I am getting at is that it is going to be extremely expensive to cut down this pollution . |
| 2 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 3 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 4 | What I am referring to is elementary structural-functionalist sociology , in which modernization is seen as a process of structural differentiation ( Ausdifferenzierung ) . |
| 5 | What I am aiming against is the indistinct mutter ; it is not a question of regional idiom , which is often charming . |
| 6 | What I am talking about are the contexts in which people have sexual relationships . |
| 7 | Some , at least , of this confusion and inconsistency arise out of misunderstanding as to what is meant by Wages for Housework , so before proceeding any further I propose to change the term in order to indicate ( a ) that I am not spokeswoman for , nor even in complete agreement with , the campaign of that name ; ( b ) that I do not propose to be sidetracked into an interesting discussion of the precise scientific definition of ‘ wage ’ ; what I am talking about is cash , money , pound notes , that to which a housewife is not entitled , that to which she should be ; and ( c ) that there is housework and housework . |
| 8 | Now what I am talking about is a very simple concept illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 9 | What I am talking of is , I suppose , the sort of progeny one might expect from a mating between the Arkleton Trust and the government-sponsored Plockton seminar |
| 10 | ‘ What I am pleading for is a widening of belief from the received views of God . |
| 11 | What I 'm thinking of is that |
| 12 | ‘ What I 'm getting at is our friend , Howard . |
| 13 | Yes whether he was naked at the time of the arrest or or just er , what , what I 'm getting at is er that I put some trousers on Mr . |
| 14 | What I 'm getting at is there 's no reason why we need , we should wait until after the surveys to start looking at trips . |
| 15 | I said , well , what I 'm ringing about is am I allowed back in there or am I barred ? |
| 16 | ‘ Obviously the return we get is good in public relations terms , but what I 'm searching for is a better quality of recruit . ’ |
| 17 | What I 'm searching for is the right comparison . |
| 18 | What I 'm looking for is feedback from the clients which say , yeah , these reports are alright as far as they go but really I do n't want all that information or I want this information . |
| 19 | What I 'm looking for is a locked , unmarked door on the fourth floor up a flight of stairs . |
| 20 | Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice . |
| 21 | What I 'm looking for is information about myself . |
| 22 | I , what I 'm looking for is oh |
| 23 | Er so what I 'm looking for is to try and see that we do all we can to make sure that the second half of ninety three we take full advantage of everything that we 've got so that we do actually rapidly increase our productivity in the second half of the year . |
| 24 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
| 25 | Well what I 'm looking at is you have n't got anything at all right ! |
| 26 | Yes , the copying music , what I 'm asking for is not so much copying there , ag it 's it 's the old friend transposition , well it 's partly copying , but it 's mainly transposition of erm horn , trumpet and clarinet parts |
| 27 | What I 'm asking for is that we keep this approach up to fight this government to give er our senior citizens a better chance in this life , cos a lot of us here would not be here today if it was n't for the senior citizens who brought us up . |
| 28 | Actually , I have n't decided what I 'm going to be doing with Pickerage on Sunday . |
| 29 | ‘ My mother was a virgin on her wedding night , and that 's what I 'm going to be , ’ she said firmly . |
| 30 | So I make appointments with myself , where I 've got , you 'll see there , eight days where for two hours that 's what I 'm going to be doing . |