Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that one thing which was clear was that when management addressed the problem , improvements usually flowed . |
| 2 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 3 | What 's new is that the problem is now openly discussed . |
| 4 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 5 | What 's amazing is that in France they do all these blood tests throughout your pregnancy . |
| 6 | But Edward Carr , trade correspondent of The Economist , is not so sure : ‘ What 's worrying is that there does n't seem to be anyone in control any more . |
| 7 | Well what 's , what 's worrying is that this |
| 8 | What 's certain is that it will cost some promoter a lot of money . |
| 9 | What 's certain is that he does n't understand her . |
| 10 | But what 's certain is that if you 're in that type of job you will be amongst the lowest paid workers in Scotland . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's disturbing is that we still have quite a narrow industrial base , ’ said Mr Scott . |
| 12 | What 's disturbing is that we have a narrow industrial base . |
| 13 | What 's clear is that the Polo is not the all-new supermini Volkswagen would have you believe . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's lucky is that Harry had the sense to take you with him . |
| 15 | Erm , I do n't think either a father or a mother intrinsically has to be necessary , I think what 's important is that children should have access to a variety of loving adults , one or two , or maybe three of those who they should have a special relationship with , does n't matter whether they 're male or female , so long as the , the children are loved and they feel secure and happy , it does n't matter about , you know , this is mother , this is father . |
| 16 | What 's important is that I still go on working with old friends like Ian McDiarmid at small theatres like the Almeida . ’ |
| 17 | What 's important is that Britain should adopt a positive role in the negotiations , very difficult negotiations , that lie ahead , and that Britain should not be isolated and that Britain should , in fact , be able to find a way forward with its partners . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's wrong is that he wo n't ! |
| 19 | What 's interesting is that 40 of those 44 homes were private and 641 of the 763 new places were private . |
| 20 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 21 | What 's interesting is that the contrast between the two cities is so great that they could equally well be at opposite ends of the planet . |
| 22 | What is impressive is that the failure of all that was so busily constructed , attempted and imagined , was not merely predictable but predicted . |
| 23 | What is impressive is that these distinctions can be made without any prior knowledge of the syntactic and semantic categories of the words involved . |
| 24 | What is sad is that caught in this way , they are unable to see or use the opportunities for life-fulfilling experiences spread out before them . |
| 25 | As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint . |
| 26 | What is new is that we have moved from too few qualified nurses coming to work in the operating theatres , to not enough people entering nursing . |
| 27 | What is new is that the personnel involved in this work have emerged from the different backgrounds of teaching , educational research and libraries , bringing with them expertise and specialist knowledge from these different areas . |
| 28 | What is new is that the controls which held this population in check no longer exist . |
| 29 | What is new is that lay people are being given ministerial training . |
| 30 | What is new is that this phenomenon of the political management of the economy is being more systematically and seriously explored within the burgeoning New Right literature on the " political-business cycle " . |