Example sentences of "what [be] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newby ( 1979 , p. 170 ) suggests that , in fact , ‘ what are demanded are pet farm workers who cause no trouble but who form part of the landscape along with the fields and the trees ’ . |
| 2 | What are demanded are pet farm workers who cause no trouble but who form part of the landscape along with the fields and the trees . |
| 3 | What are concealed are the material inequalities of leisure power , the unequal distributions of cultural capital . |
| 4 | What are needed are more Mario Cuomos , politicians who are prepared to put moral and practical argument above political expediency . |
| 5 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 6 | These serve to provide Disabled people with a positive cultural identity and impetus for continued campaigning as well as communicating to the non-Disabled arts and general community what being Disabled is really about . |
| 7 | ‘ We all make mistakes , ’ he snapped , ‘ What 's done 's done . |
| 8 | What 's done 's done ; nobody can bring them back . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What 's done 's done , ’ McGann said , ‘ and we must all bear some part of the responsibility . |
| 10 | What 's done is done , Tremayne would say , but one could n't wipe out an enveloping feeling of pathetic waste . |
| 11 | What they have to do , though , is to draw a line under their hard training up to April 7 , two weeks before the race , and admit that what 's done is done . |
| 12 | She murmured her motto , " What 's done is done , and can not be undone , " and then returned to her present problems . |
| 13 | What 's done is done — and at least the men responsible for it have paid their dues . " |
| 14 | What 's done is done . |
| 15 | What 's done is done . |
| 16 | Showcasing the likes of ‘ Boogaloo ’ and ‘ What 's Done Is Done ’ , The Filipinos reveal a sure talent for refurbishing the past instead of merely replicating it . |
| 17 | What 's the point of all this fuss ? she said at last : what 's done is done . |
| 18 | What 's done is done . |
| 19 | What 's done is done . |
| 20 | Showcasing the likes of ‘ Boogaloo ’ and ‘ What 's Done Is Done ’ , The Filipinos reveal a sure talent for refurbishing the past instead of merely replicating it . |
| 21 | What 's done is done . |
| 22 | Sometimes , MOST OF THE TIME , what 's represented is just wishful thinking . |
| 23 | What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing . |
| 24 | So what 's happening is a lot of rumour out there and a lot of people who think that this is a wonderful opportunity to make ten per cent on the deal . |
| 25 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 26 | Now the blue flames are What 's happening is this , there 's two reactions taking place in that coke fire . |
| 27 | Keep the joint , what 's happening is the the the smooth side is starting to get a wee bit rough and if you can keep that rubbing off the other bone it smooths it down . |
| 28 | No , I suspect what 's happening is the , the stuff that 's oozing out of your tonsils is what you 're tasting , and |
| 29 | And what 's happening is the children were n't walking from the school Street site to the Road site . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's happening is that you 're being offered a way out . ’ |