Example sentences of "what you [verb] [is] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What you miss is the additional instability emanating from the treaty itself . |
| 2 | What you like is prawn biriani and apple crumble ; getting up late on Sunday and reading the papers in your dressing-gown ; looking at your insurance policies ; being taken for an academic ; picking food out from between your teeth with a sharpened matchstick . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What you remember is true . ’ |
| 4 | What you advocate is similar to the International Baccalaureat , a successful school-leaving certificate pioneered by the International School in Geneva and now accepted by reputable universities worldwide , including Britain . |
| 5 | Right , so you have some reservations already about what you know is available . |
| 6 | You keep insisting on what you know is impossible . |
| 7 | going out of the classroom and using what you know is an extremely important part of language learning . |
| 8 | But what you know is not gon na be the same . |
| 9 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 10 | The minor claim is simply that if you it 's an empirical claim it says if you look at the fossil record , and you look in detail at the changes in the fossils , what you observe is not continuous steady change , but you see what they call stasis — that is nothing much happening for long periods of time , perhaps for millions of years , and then rather suddenly changes taking place . |
| 11 | Summary The main point we have made in this chapter is that in a relatively formal style such as that of academic essay-writing , much of the impact and credibility of what you write is achieved by the way it conforms to conventions . |
| 12 | Critics are free to express opinions on such matters , but most of what you hear is pure speculation . |
| 13 | What you hear is what we played . ’ |
| 14 | If what you hear is like a field |
| 15 | Errors of logic are where BBCBASIC(Z80) understands exactly what you said , but what you said is not what you meant . |
| 16 | That 's what you said is n't |
| 17 | ‘ What you mean is : there 's no chance of my being kept on after the three years are up . ’ |
| 18 | What you mean is that we might bang into things or kick a detonator on the nose or something of the kind . |
| 19 | what you mean is you wish you could find one that did n't pick his nose and his nails |
| 20 | ‘ What you mean is that my uncle will tell me what to say . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What you mean is , could we , by accident , on three occasions , have released murderers back into society ? |
| 22 | ‘ What you mean is it was n't black . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What you mean is , you hoped I 'd find out from someone else . |
| 24 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 25 | ‘ What you mean is , you 're not so thick-skulled that you did n't get the message . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What you mean is , she will wonder what happened if we return to the palazzo at such an early hour . |
| 27 | ‘ What you mean is , one of your spies has assembled a secret dossier of facts about me , ’ she said accusingly . |
| 28 | What you mean is they had chance . |
| 29 | What you get is Bob returning to his roots with songs from the American folk and blues archives performed with just a single guitar and voice . |
| 30 | It 's called Totally Pauly , and what you get is this gangling , scarf-draped , tendril-haired , mumbling , stumbling doper addressing the camera — and , by extension , us — as ‘ Bud ’ , accosting strangers on the street , cruising chicks ( ‘ buff nugs ’ , to use his parlance ) on the Strip , or making field trips to beauty pageants , pig farms and rodeos . |