Example sentences of "[verb] what [pron] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 2 | The fact that meaning is not constructed from the formal language of the message alone is crucial in explaining what it is that makes people perceive some stretches of language as coherent discourse and others as disconnected jumbles . |
| 3 | Another way is just to try to define its scope by explaining what it is that distinguishes it from other kinds of policy . |
| 4 | " The important thing is to know what it is that you are dying for " , noted Nizan in 1935 . |
| 5 | These two tasks are inextricably interwoven : if advisers fail to establish what it is that a client wants to know because of poor interviewing , then they will not be able to supply the correct information even if it is available . |
| 6 | One of the secrets of staying healthy is to discover what it is that tends to throw you out of balance and causes illnesses to appear . |
| 7 | God has made everybody good at different things , so try to discover what it is that God has given you the ability to do , and try to do it as well as possible . |
| 8 | However , it must also be recognised that in most cases when English speakers come across an unfamiliar word , they can pronounce it with the correct stress ( there are exceptions to this , of course ) ; in principle , it should be possible to discover what it is that the English speaker knows and to write in the form of rules . |
| 9 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 10 | ‘ Being around you for any length of time , I 'd sooner know what it is that makes you tick . |
| 11 | When she opens her eyes , I do n't know what it is that she sees . |
| 12 | Each causes you to observe what it is that you are trying to remember . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 15 | Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Couple of points though about this erm , how the parish council is recognized within the organization because it 's important and that did our day as well and , I suppose in a way it 's the one , one or so positive things out of this that we kind of latch on to , that the communication part is important and erm there may be others that feel the same way that we 're not actually communicating what it is that we 're doing , so , so maybe |
| 18 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 19 | The parents will begin to identify what it is that irritates them so much . |
| 20 | First , one has to identify what it is that undergraduates actually study . |
| 21 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |
| 22 | By contrast , how is the primary school to manage what it is that passes to the secondary school ? |
| 23 | We have already examined the Human Relations approach to organisations , and this is a precursor to examining what it is that motivates people to perform within organisations . |
| 24 | Although most of us do n't have the time or the inclination to record what tickles a particular customer 's fancy when it comes to paying , it does nevertheless pay off to make that extra effort and note what it is that works — particularly with large customers . |
| 25 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |
| 26 | Some use will be made of notions of risk , danger and pollution to analyse what it is that people find attractive or unattractive about such different environments . |
| 27 | It may be asked what it is that disturbs a person when he feels the ‘ prick of conscience ’ . |
| 28 | Examine all the humour you come across — in shops , at work , with children , on the TV — and try to ascertain what it is that makes something funny for you . |
| 29 | It 's a previously unexplored area , but W.H.Smith/Do It All commissioned a media psychologist , Jane Firbank , to investigate what it is that motivates a phenomenally , perhaps weirdly , growing pastime . |
| 30 | Williams argues that the utilitarian , given his empirical approach , should recognize this fact and be prepared to investigate what it is that gives these people happiness . |