Example sentences of "what it [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's forgotten what it is to sit and hold hands among the buttercups . |
| 2 | ‘ To refine these further by attempting to specify what it is hoped that a Mosotho child should know , feel and have the skills to do as a result of a full Primary education and at each stage during that education . |
| 3 | I reckon it 's advertising , that 's what it is to see whether people are mentioning certain products . |
| 4 | We may find the latter is the more elusive and the more central question , which opens out into what it is to like and to love , what it is to be content , and what it is to be happy . |
| 5 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 6 | In a sense this is what it is to become and experienced teacher rather than a novice . |
| 7 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 8 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 9 | Similarly the anglers that can control their terminal tackle , and not only that , but know what it is doing and what they are trying to do with it , with a greater degree of accuracy and confidence , will be winners . |
| 10 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 11 | The NSA is now so large , so complex , and so secret that no one in America , least of all the president or Congress , has any idea what it is doing or how sensibly the taxpayers ' money is being spent . |
| 12 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 13 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 14 | I do n't know what it 's called but there 's this bit where you go down on the floor like an anteater . |
| 15 | There is a rubber plant and another one — he does n't know what it 's called but it 's his favourite . |
| 16 | I know my hygiene rules at work , I 've got my du n no what it 's called but it 's a health and hygiene thingey certificate . |
| 17 | I know what it 's called but I would like it |
| 18 | ‘ That 's not what it 's called and the message has nothing to do with — that . ’ |
| 19 | and then I 've put project what it 's called and then I 've put what kind of project it is what type |
| 20 | Wh what about er runway lengths , obviously depends on what it 's carrying but er how how does it compare with existing aircraft for that ? |
| 21 | I always bring something back from there — today it was iris together with something white and richly scented ; I asked the girl twice what it was called but could n't catch what she said — I arrange the flowers in the vase I bought soon after I arrived . |
| 22 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 23 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
| 24 | Weak form : ‘ As much as possible ’ In final position : ‘ That 's what it was sold as ’ |
| 25 | But now of course there 's Crooks and that means , not bottles of aspirins , bad example , but Strepsils the lozenges for example , are now sold in an enormous range of private pharmacies which are not Boots and they are therefore completely outside the term output , it may be a restricted term , it may not be the one we want , but that is what it was meant and that is what the number is generated from . |
| 26 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |