Example sentences of "is [Wh det] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the annual rate of sand encroachment is which is in excess of the average annual rate of sand encroachment of ( Khalaf 1989 ) . |
| 2 | And the other one is what 's on the front ? |
| 3 | This is what 's at the back of my mind |
| 4 | Well , of course , you and I know that the reason you go to Safeways to buy things is not to get the packaging , not usually , what you 're interested in is what 's inside the packets . |
| 5 | Now I think this is what 's behind all this actually . |
| 6 | This is what 's in his head . |
| 7 | The point is what 's in John 's eyes . |
| 8 | Because that is what is at issue between the parties . |
| 9 | The writer who feels that suspense is best suited to his or her talents would do well before setting out , however , to get it clear in his or her own head that suspense is what is to be produced and that the book contemplated will adopt this form , or formula , in preference to any other . |
| 10 | The teacher may be self-employed , but still the profession rather than any other detail is what is of primary interest ( SHAME OF A KINKY SIR ) . |
| 11 | If our interest is what is of benefit to the individual patient we must take these differences into account , and in general that means allowing the patient to decide . |
| 12 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 13 | But unfair rates is what is on the table , along with the tattered remnants of more than 60 other proposals that went before . |
| 14 | The British people will not accept the relegation of the mother of Parliaments to the level of the legislature of the state of Nevada ; but that is what is on offer to us if we go down the path of full political union . |
| 15 | Imagine my disgust when I told the car park attendant of the delays , only to be informed that I must pay for two hours parking , as ‘ That is what is on the computer . ’ |
| 16 | The officers recommended federation and something similar to federation is what is on the table now . |
| 17 | The history of parish organization , for that is what is in question here , can not be written in a paragraph . |
| 18 | It is a form of brainwashing , or what that pioneer in the study of learning processes , Gregory Bateson , called corrective learning , that information-seeking activity whereby a person attempts to ‘ achieve a congruence between ‘ something in his head ’ and the external world … by altering what is in his head ’ — only in this case it is what is in Iago 's head , ‘ If thou dost love me ’ , Othello says to Iago , ‘ Show me thy thought ’ ; earlier he had said that Iago hesitated . |
| 19 | In this case , the important aspect of a state is what is in the two sets of properties . |
| 20 | The only prior knowledge a baby has is what is in its chromosomes , and chromosomes do not encode that sort of knowledge . |
| 21 | During the run-up to the general election , the Government do not want to hear the word ’ privatisation ’ , but that is what is in store for the coal industry — or is it ? |
| 22 | Elderly people are being given food and water to persuade them not to vote for SWAPO and people are being shown videos of the Ethiopian famine and told that that is what is in store for them , according to Andimba Toivo ja Toivo , SWAPO 's Secretary General . |
| 23 | This is what is behind modem schemes to produce ‘ fusion ’ power . |
| 24 | Something has to be behind you and that is what is behind me . |
| 25 | But they we , quite convinced they were gon na win and I think this is what was behind it . |