Example sentences of "[noun sg] what [pron] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 2 | This should make all those involved with mathematics education question what it is that we can do to enhance and develop these talents . |
| 3 | In order to bring into clear focus what it is that has been lost but can be regained through meditative discipline , Hilton advances an orthodox Augustinian analysis of the structure of personality as essentially tripartite and , thus , trinitarian . |
| 4 | In comparing of the two liberal democratic party systems of Great Britain and the United States , let us first outline what it is that parties in liberal democracies are said to do . |
| 5 | This present body of work is the closest that he has come to understanding what it is that attracts him to travel . |
| 6 | This present body of work is the closest that he has come to understanding what it is that attracts him to travel . |
| 7 | But it seems to me to have the twofold advantages of first specifying with precision what it is that the parties have agreed , thus avoiding the possibility of misunderstanding or mistake , and , secondly , it enables the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may tentatively determine to depart from the agreed package . |
| 8 | As Gabriel Josipovici has said , ‘ To imagine , like the traditional novelist , that one 's work is an image of the real world , to imagine that one can communicate directly to the reader what it is that one uniquely feels , that is to fall into the real solipsism , which is , to paraphrase Kierkegaard on despair , not to know that one is in a state of solipsism ’ ( The World and the Book ) . |
| 9 | is to discuss wi with the client what it is that he |