Example sentences of "is what [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when people talk about Freud 's Lamarckism , they 're not talking about what Darwin and Freud understood as Lamarckism , evolution by will , with progressive improvement , what they 're talking about is what everybody believed to be true , the inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 2 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 3 | And then she would listen to them read , well this is what they finished with they 'd have a book and they 'd take it up and she 'd listen to one line ! |
| 4 | And they sent back and now this is what they said to us in this letter I remember this distinctly that er if we want you to come out we 'll tell you but we regard your factories as our second line of defence . |
| 5 | That is what they said in the 1930s . |
| 6 | What we do n't know is what they had in common that made them end up where they did . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This is what they get from arsehole to breakfast . |
| 8 | This is what they sang in praise to God : |
| 9 | I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work . |
| 10 | The widest part , I think , is what they call near the just below the , that 's er what they call that 's not in the book now . |
| 11 | That is what they do to wicked priests . ’ |
| 12 | What will they do to people if this is what they do to a dumb animazl that has n't even annoyed them . |
| 13 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 14 | Certainly , when today 's Unionist leaders call for a " return to democracy " in the province , that is what they have in mind the restoration of simple majority rule , which would in effect be the restoration of Protestant domination . |
| 15 | This is what they say about tackling your pelargoniums now . |
| 16 | This is what they say about housing : ’ Authorities also own and manage 4 million houses nationally . ’ |
| 17 | We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that . |
| 18 | One of the things I do not know about them , that 's women , is what they talk about and why the men are talking . |
| 19 | This is what they did for Mrs W and her children . |
| 20 | Sorry you ca n't work in pairs which is what they did on Sunday . |
| 21 | This is what they did in 1947 . |
| 22 | Father had to poultice her , which is what they did in those days . |
| 23 | It made him feel he wanted to punish the crowd and fired him to say , ‘ If this is what they think of me and what they think of Jacklin , I 'll make sure he never finishes in front of me again . ’ |
| 24 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 25 | It is what they expect from Robyn Penrose , and even the rugby-playing boys in the back row would be mildly disappointed if she did n't produce this kind of observation from time to time . |
| 26 | It really is something that I would like to see us achieve in the future and if this can be brought forward by meeting the developer down there , then I would be , certainly be in favour of that and I would certainly like , and this is what we said at this meeting , to find out a little more detail of exactly what they were offering but we have to be minded all the time , as I said again , is how we 're going to acquire permission to go over one or two different land owners ' lands . |
| 27 | This , when the cells themselves have been killed by boiling and washed away , is what we use in our baths . |
| 28 | Third , a switch by car drivers to cycling , which is what we campaign for , would clearly benefit the majority of NFC employees by reducing car-induced congestion . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the most highly automated programme of language teaching is no better than the material it contains ; it is what we put into it that determines the quality of the automation . |
| 30 | Saracen is what we looked at in Horsfall |