Example sentences of "[is] what [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what 's so engaging about you but of course you 're the one person who ca n't see that . |
| 2 | A few years ago , er , the joint planning structures , and this is before the introduction of care in the community , dealt or came to be seen politically , dealing very much with joint finance and although , important though it , that is , it 's what 's sometimes called funny money , it 's money at the side , it did n't deal with mainstream policies , and mainstream budgets . |
| 3 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 4 | ‘ Damian Flint is what 's really beginning to bug me … ’ |
| 5 | It may be asked whether , since a grasp of general principles is what is evidently needed , and an ability to connect together ideas derived from different disciplines , it would not be sensible to teach philosophy as a separate subject at school . |
| 6 | This is what is normally called the problem of social order , and of course it 's been around in philosophy and , and social sciences , really since the beginning , and er , some of the greatest and earliest works of er , social philosophy like Plato 's Republic , are really in part about this er question . |
| 7 | The reason Morgan sees for the passage of society from one stage to another — and this is what is most stressed by Engels in his restatement of Morgan 's theory in The Origin — is a social break due too the fact that the various subsystems stop working in gear , and come into conflict with each other . |
| 8 | In spite of this , the words ‘ buyer beware ’ still carry a very real warning in one type of purchase and that is what is colloquially called a private sale . |
| 9 | This is what is effectively happening in the scenario posed . |
| 10 | It is what is already done by the intelligent undergraduate who , when recommended to read a work by that great scholar Jones of St. Jude 's , goes round to a friend at St. Jude 's to ask what sort of chap Jones is , and what bees he has in his bonnet . |
| 11 | A third mechanism for maintaining the threshold between conflict and war is what is generally termed ‘ presence ’ . |
| 12 | GDO or ODG are random collections of letters , not signs ( unless we suspect that they are unfamiliar acronymics , or words in an unknown language ) , but DOG is the signifier of a sign whose signified is what is elsewhere understood by chien , etc . |
| 13 | Nor has she slit any throats , gouged out any eyes or cut off any fingers or genitals , which is what is routinely done , pour encourager les autres , to opponents of the huge Guatemalan army . |
| 14 | Now what you 're going to receive this afternoon , is what is pretentiously called a time management system . |
| 15 | The simplest and most fundamental aspect of cognisance ( fundamental philosophically and developmentally ) is what is usually referred to as ‘ self-world dualism ’ : the knowledge that there is a physical world out there of which I am an experiencer and that is distinct from me . |
| 16 | This is consistent with the hypothesis that Patois features are acquired through socialisation — however , it does not demonstrate that that is what is really happening . |
| 17 | So is what is sometimes called an open conditional : If it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 18 | There is a type of expression which is frequently included in the category of idiom , but which , it will be argued , ought to be kept distinct , and that is what is sometimes called ‘ frozen ’ or ‘ dead ’ metaphor . |
| 19 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 20 | It also indicates the much more haunting proposition for Spenser , that Ireland may scourge England because that is what is divinely desired and there is no escape . |
| 21 | And , and the issue is , question is is what is often called a problem of social order . |