Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |
| 2 | I do n't wish to know what it is to be mortal , thanks . |
| 3 | ‘ He wants to know what it is like in a jet , ’ said the Thing . |
| 4 | ‘ Would n't it be better to love like that for a little while than never to know what it is like ? ’ she asked herself silently . |
| 5 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 6 | It 's been very hard for years , and now , to be back here , you do n't know what it is for me . |
| 7 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know what it is with me and my left foot … |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about dolphins , ’ said the leading lady of the entertainment show Give Us A Clue , ‘ but you just feel that they understand what you are going on about . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about the ‘ 68 but as a Fender Jag it 's got a real thin sound . |
| 11 | At least — at least — I do n't know what it is about you , Miss Abbott , but you make me want to bare my soul to you — I did have a wife once , years ago , when I was very young , but she left me , not I her , to live with someone else . |
| 12 | I do n't know what it is about this study … sort of phoney . |
| 13 | I do n't know what it is about it , but I find I have the urge to sit here and enjoy it . |
| 14 | talk about , I do n't know what it is about her I do n't like her , very often I sort of she , to me she 's sarcastic , the way , the way she 's talking to you there 's sarcasm there all the time , you know , like |
| 15 | We do not yet know what it is in a homoeopathic potency that has a curative action , nor do we know how homoeopathic remedies work in the body any more than we know the mechanisms of action of many of the conventional drugs used in medicine . |
| 16 | We do n't know what it is in the vegetables and fruit that is so beneficial , ’ explains Professor James , ‘ but there are several theories . |
| 17 | BS is supposed to have complete scientific knowledge of V and his physical environment when V sees : yet BS does not know what it is like for V to see , what colours look like , etcetera . |
| 18 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 19 | The pity is that they are missing so much ; for instance , they will never know what it is like to fish a small stream , or any river except perhaps a sluggish canal-like one . |
| 20 | I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) . |
| 21 | Anyone who has been to watch the Ryder Cup at The Belfry will know what it is like to be in a large crowd when there are only four matches on the course . |
| 22 | Even if he 's your husband he can not go through the pain you went through and so can not know what it is like . |
| 23 | Buddleia , same time as you planted the Buddleia , you planted this other thing , we do n't quite know what it is against the fence , and it kept sticking out when we played ball , do you remember ? |
| 24 | And I 've forgotten what it is to be impulsive . |
| 25 | Although obviously a very experienced and skilful pilot , David Mason has not forgotten what it is like to be a raw student , and there is a streak of dry humour in his observations of each stage of the training process . |
| 26 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 27 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 28 | It 's exhausting enough for you ; imagine what it is like for someone who is n't used to your kids . |
| 29 | We suggest that the more a person is in love and the less they are able to define what it is in the other that they love , the less free is the conscious choice and the more it relates to the ‘ me in you ’ and the search for psychological wholeness through another . |
| 30 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |