Example sentences of "what is it that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is it that makes this substantial book produce , mixed-in with its rewards and knowledge , a depressing effect ? |
| 2 | What is it that so movingly draws so many people — his innocent , childlike way , the stony visual he projects , set off against his highly visible symptoms ? |
| 3 | ‘ What is it that you want me to do , Isabel ? ’ |
| 4 | What is it that you are trying to tell me ? |
| 5 | What is it that allows such belief to occur in the child when so much , to the observer , is unreal ? |
| 6 | What is it that MacDonalds , Pizza Parlour , Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Wimpy Bar offer that schools ca n't or do n't provide ? |
| 7 | What is it that you want ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What is it that you wish to discuss ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | So what is it that we want to know ? |
| 10 | What is it that I have to do ? |
| 11 | Just what is it that I am afraid of ? |
| 12 | What is it that goes wrong ? |
| 13 | Having suggested that the National Curriculum is a constraint , what is it that we are being constrained from ? |
| 14 | Chorus What is it that satisfies 'Bout cheating ways and lies , Sad |
| 15 | All : What is it that satisfies |
| 16 | What is it that satisfies 'Bout cheating hearts and |
| 17 | Maybe the question , ‘ What is it that I have to undo in order to help myself ? ’ is more appropriate when it comes to the Alexander Technique . |
| 18 | What is it that sets us Brits apart so unmistakably ? |
| 19 | And just what is it that we are objecting to ? |
| 20 | But what is it that persuades artists ( music hall or oils ) , comedians , actors , deep think-ers , burlesque queens and ‘ significant novelists ’ that they should contribute to the political debate ? |
| 21 | Make bosses aware of their behaviour by asking : ‘ What is it that you really want to say that you 're covering up with sarcasm ? ’ |
| 22 | So what is it that differentiates life from the nonliving ? |
| 23 | And what is it that transmits this expertise and gives that extra edge in performance ? |
| 24 | But what is it that enables a person to recognise a pain as having its source in , say , his finger ? |
| 25 | I asked her , ‘ What is it that gives you the confidence to try things out ? ’ . |
| 26 | What is it that motivates painters to work directly from the landscape motif ? |
| 27 | ‘ So what is it that my people did n't tell me ? ’ |
| 28 | More important than all that , however , what is it that you , the reader , like about the rose ? |
| 29 | Just what is it that makes Richard Hamilton so different , so appealing ? |
| 30 | What is it that links the baseball players , boxers and other athletes , drawn with hyper-realist attention to detail , that people the canvases of Jessica Gandolf ; a combination of sexual imagery and social tension that characterises the work of John Carey ; strident colours and hand-written captions that tell of love and men in the paintings of Irène Hardwicke ; the domestic interiors and nature studies for which Katherine Spitzhoff uses egg-based tempera to give a high-gloss finish ; the pictures of John Spinks , a professor of linguistics , that incorporate printed paper , old book bindings and letters from his father ? |