Example sentences of "what it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what it meant is it got read , written into the constitution , it meant that everyone can buy a gun . |
| 2 | Even to explain exactly what it meant was difficult . |
| 3 | What it meant was that matter could curve a region in on itself so much that it would effectively cut itself off from the rest of the universe . |
| 4 | In the context of German Hellenism as a whole , what it meant was an ever-widening gulf between classics as a study and the creative art and life of the time . |
| 5 | a paragraph at the end of one of the chapters and , I ca n't remember the exact words but in , what it meant was that for the parents who do restrain the children from what they watch |
| 6 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 7 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 8 | What it lacks is diversity , drama and pained desperation . |
| 9 | What it lacks is anything else ; any really useful and unique features . |
| 10 | What it lacks is sophistication and complexity , which is no bad thing , in my view . |
| 11 | I it , and it jumped back up and , it did n't jump back up , it jumped , what it done is it ran down that bit of the wall and jumped . |
| 12 | What it does is to turn the light it controls ( typically a hall light or an outside light ) on and off , according to how you set the timer , to give the impression ( to a potential burglar ) that the house is occupied . |
| 13 | What it does is lie at half cock and suspend a floating bait onto the water 's surface . |
| 14 | What it does is combine both pickups through a capacitor and a resistor with a certain amount of reverse phase , to echo the sound a Strat makes when you jam the switch between the middle and neck pickups . |
| 15 | What it does is to create an image of total separation expressed in understatement . |
| 16 | What it does is demonstrate that even for ‘ one off ’ individual clients the most common practice of lawyers is translation rather than control . |
| 17 | As for rule 2.12. ( 1 ) , Mr. Beloff submits that this supports his submission , not that of Mr. Collins , since what it does is to provide that the Norwich Union must have rules which will ensure that appointed representatives such as Winchester comply with the Lautro Rules . |
| 18 | What it does is demonstrate the candidate 's ability to operate in English and a community language adequately in ordinary community contexts . |
| 19 | Then what it does is swim straight into your dick and once it gets there it sticks out a couple of spines sideways and just stays there . |
| 20 | What it does is annually adjust your interest rate taking into account the previous year 's rate changes . |
| 21 | What it does is to send a tight beam of information up to a satellite . |
| 22 | What it does is extend the requirements to include methods of selection which should virtually guarantee that the ‘ proper ’ choice is made for each party . |
| 23 | What it does is talk about psychological agencies , so what we 've got here is two overlapping er models of the mind if you like , but they 're somewhat different models . |
| 24 | Copyright does not give a monopoly in ideas ; what it does is to prevent a person from copying or otherwise capitalizing on tangible expressions of ideas made by others . |
| 25 | What it does is it means that there is a proper look each year at the finances of each individual firm er and er if there are things which are wrong , they are reported straight away and that really I think is the lesser of all of this with B C C I , er that er where things are not all they should be that they are dealt with and they are reported quickly and these orders , Madam Deputy Speaker , go a long way to helping to ensure that and for that reason I believe the house should warmly welcome them . |
| 26 | Right , O K. Now what it does , he 's said right , in September this is what we moved , and then what it does is divides it by four , O K , this is what we did therefore in a week . |
| 27 | Yeah , it 's really notice you can change it , cos what it does is it , oh hell you can edit the colours of everything so if , if you ca n't understand , cos sometimes it goes over itself , like grey means normal writing , yellow means bold and underlined and pink |
| 28 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 29 | er so for example , in this country our guaranteed price is quite low and in Germany it 's quite high er so what it does was whoever exports or imports between the two it tries to level the prices up . |
| 30 | Even a small park with a few facilities can achieve ***** if what it offers is to an exceptionally high quality standard . |