Example sentences of "[be] [Wh det] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could not be what it is without that upon which it depends . |
| 2 | And that er , that 's what it is on the thing , jacket potato on there ? |
| 3 | I 've smoked for over fifteen years , and it has become , it 's something to do with my hands and I think that 's what it is with me . |
| 4 | No , she said she gets arthritis in hers and I expect that 's what it is with mine . |
| 5 | mm , well that 's what it is in it ? , that 's what it is |
| 6 | So that , I think , is where this research ought to go , into truly expert systems rather than in statistical machines , which is what it is at the moment . |
| 7 | I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ . |
| 8 | That is what it is for . |
| 9 | Thus to a large extent a horse is what it is through the formation of many habits . |
| 10 | The study of human nature is , in good part , the study of human conventions , and that is what it is from the strictest ethological point of view . |
| 11 | The consciousness of a bat is what it is like to be a bat , that way of being . |
| 12 | is what it is like or what it is like in words . |
| 13 | This is what it is like being on the outside of a murder case , thought Gabriel . |