Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh det] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what it 's talking about there is how you can actually define a group . |
| 2 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 3 | Speaking as a single parent who was left with children of twelve and eight , it is very hard and I often think it would be a good thing if social workers were better able to explain to young girls who are left with babies , just what it 's going to be like . |
| 4 | Look at it this way : Track Two is now doing just what it was set up to do in just the situation they foresaw : a weak British government getting too close to Moscow . |
| 5 | Now it makes you wonder just what it was doing to Kenny . ’ |
| 6 | Having found that Vendale 's identity is not what it is believed to be , he tries to use this discovery , but is thwarted by Bintrey . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's not what it 's called and the message has nothing to do with — that . ’ |
| 8 | That 's because the Premier League is not what it 's cracked up to be . |
| 9 | Or would that be the final admission that everything in Paradise is not what it 's cracked up to be ? |
| 10 | If a theory is so vaguely stated that it is not clear exactly what it is claiming , then , when tested by observation or experiment it can always be interpreted so as to be consistent with the results of those tests . |
| 11 | The khedda looks too flimsy to hold a herd of furious , newly rounded-up elephants but that is exactly what it is designed to do . |
| 12 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 13 | But it does n't mean exactly what it 's saying does it ? |
| 14 | Do you a do you know exactly what it 's going to cost you ? |
| 15 | It lasts for around five minutes and you ca n't work out exactly what it 's selling , but it leaves you wishing it carried on for hours . |
| 16 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 17 | Organised by Brian and Anna Houghton , the London ceramics dealers who have launched two highly regarded specialist fairs in London during the past few years , it offered New Yorkers two innovations ; an expert vetting committee , which checked that every item was genuinely what it was said to be — there had never been vetting in America before — and a showcase in their own city of top European dealers ' wares . |
| 18 | AN INCREASING demand for hypo-allergenic dairy products has led a Tayside woman to take the first tentative steps towards setting up what it is thought would be Britain 's only mare milking unit . |
| 19 | That 's probably what it is lifting glass up too much . |
| 20 | As the situation in the United States shows , it is not merely how much money is spent on health care that is important , but also what it is spent on . |
| 21 | If we could know both where a particle was and also what it was doing , it would then have to be in a state which was simultaneously an eigenstate of the position operator x and also an eigenstate of the momentum operator p . |
| 22 | And then I can give them an idea of price , and we can work out what it 's going to cost . |
| 23 | I said , ‘ Find out what it is made of . ’ |
| 24 | Find out what it is used for ( eg are the apples for eating or cooking with ? ) . |
| 25 | It is well known that many members of Parliament are among those who are deeply dissatisfied with Parliament 's ability to control the executive , or even to find out what it is doing . |
| 26 | They might have had one and found out what it was going to cost and were decided against . |
| 27 | He watched its greenish , powerful beak stabbing the ground but could not make out what it was doing . |
| 28 | MICHEL ROCARD 'S Socialist government faces a vote of no confidence today which it is bound to win . |
| 29 | A new hospital ward for children opens tomorrow which it 's hoped will help take the fear and pain out of their first hospital experience . |
| 30 | They were still on the outskirts of the city centre itself and Donna wondered what something as strange as a waxworks was doing so far from the city centre , even what it was doing in a place like Portsmouth . |