Example sentences of "[be] what [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose the British equivalent would be what we call the Stockbroker Belt , ’ she mused , ‘ although some of those have fared pretty badly recently . |
| 2 | This must be what they call the fog of war . ’ |
| 3 | And then on the other side there used to be what they called the market . |
| 4 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 5 | ‘ In the course of this process we have talked to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , who told us that she was the life tenant of a substantial estate , and that you are what they call the remainder-man . ’ |
| 6 | ( The medical/technical descriptions are what I understood the doctors to say not text-book definitions ) . |
| 7 | And that is that in the projections of housing requirements for the City of York , not Greater York but the City of York , the County Council have a figure of four thousand four hundred households extra , but propose a provision of only three thousand three hundred dwellings extra , that 's purely within York , and the question really therefore for the County Council is I had thought that their dwelling requirements , that their , sorry their their policy H One figure for York was what they thought the requirements were , but maybe it 's what they think the limited capacity is , and they are foreseeing an overspill of thousand odd from the city of York into Greater York . |
| 8 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 9 | And that 's what they called the first automatic washer . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's what they called the operation . |
| 11 | With the X mover that 's what they called the solution . |
| 12 | And the hours er the early that 's what they called the early men they went in at one o'clock . |
| 13 | That 's what they call the Hamilton place . ’ |
| 14 | That 's what they call the high and low value of the stock in a stock swap such as this . |
| 15 | " Yeh , that 's what they call the dental officer in there . " |
| 16 | He 's the bo he 's what they call the editor of the programme . |
| 17 | That 's what we got the union for . |
| 18 | That 's what we got the union for . |
| 19 | That 's what we got the union for , to make sure that these things did not happen . |
| 20 | That 's what we had the row about . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That 's what we did the first night we met . ’ |
| 22 | Sorry , that 's what we call the Monday morning meeting where we discuss what 's going on . |
| 23 | Then there 's what we call the long tour , which has got seven characters from the house 's history on it . |
| 24 | A thousand pounds a month , that 's what we set the plan up for . |
| 25 | That 's what we wanted the money for . ’ |
| 26 | That 's right , that 's what he had the other day when they came in There you are , good girl er , what 's the plan of action this afternoon ? |
| 27 | That 's what she said the other day . |
| 28 | That 's what I thought the trolley sounded like as we went through the green channel . |
| 29 | It 's what I made the other week . |
| 30 | That 's what I put the I thought the |