Example sentences of "is what [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is what made me a , a wee bit suspicious , right because , we work in the office , and she said oh Karen ! |
| 2 | The Mad Scene feature an ex-Ex Lion Tamer and experience in said Wire covers band is what makes them a sort of glum The Might Be Giants with guitars on the title track and a kind of Beatle Fall on the rest . |
| 3 | In addition to their orthodoxy on the issues , this is what makes them an asset to the DUP and this is what accounts for their displacing of some of the stalwarts . |
| 4 | These codes are shared by author and reader and their role in the text is what makes it a text . |
| 5 | The reason the Royal Show is international is not because we say it is ; it is because the international visitors choose to visit the Royal Show and that is what makes it the most international agricultural show in the world . |
| 6 | We might suggest that in conceiving the rule for + 2 , we somehow already conceived all the instances , and this is what makes it the case that the ‘ correct ’ interpretation is correct . |
| 7 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |
| 8 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |