Example sentences of "[be] [Wh det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders what the factors are which cause modern uncivilised behaviour ? |
| 2 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 3 | The traditional MacLeod tartan also looks good on the simple shapes , as the more traditional the tartan , the more lines there are which makes the ceramics look less bland . ’ |
| 4 | If anyone was to take on the role of the state police it would be the Metropolitan Police Force who have got experts and if say something happened in Manchester like an I R A bombers left some bombs in Manchester , experts from the Metropolitan Police would go to Manchester to help out , they 're what 's known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad |
| 5 | They 're What do you think they 're doing all this firing on us right now . |
| 6 | That 's what we mean , that 's why we 're What do you say , to consider for the to pick up many details . |
| 7 | For example , ( 43 ) is matched by ( 45 ) , not ( 44 ) : ( 43 ) frogs croak ( 44 ) croak frogs ( 45 ) croaking frogs Adjectives in English are also distinguished from verbs by the separate peculiarity ( already implied ) that in assignment they must be accompanied by a form of be which carries tense , and which more importantly helps to mark the relation . |
| 8 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
| 9 | Now the idea behind that is that it builds up and keeps in trim the muscles of the feet and ankles and legs , which is going to be what gets you about because you realize your retirement is going to be as good as your legs . |
| 10 | The obvious difficulty would be what to do about imports . |
| 11 | Another problem facing farmers in the future will be what to do with the stubble left in their fields after harvesting . |
| 12 | The real test for the polys will be what happens if the economy goes into recession , as it may next year , and unemployment rises again . |
| 13 | This does appear to be what happens . |
| 14 | The benefits of an intuitive , multi-media , multi-tasking operating system will be what tips the scales — not whether the applications themselves are prettier or faster . |
| 15 | Such a theory implies that decoding a speech signal by reference to its articulatory features may be what characterises , at least in part , the special capacities of the left hemisphere ( Liberman , 1974 ) . |
| 16 | The test questions should be what experienced teachers would be likely to ask , taking account of the character of the reading material , its context and the purposes for which it would normally be encountered . |
| 17 | The whole pointless exercise , the sense of being marginalised , can be what sends a mother back to work , although the declared reason will be the need to boost the family income . |
| 18 | Illness may be what motivates or causes this behaviour . |
| 19 | I 'm sure that must be what happened … ’ |
| 20 | Nevertheless , this , or something similar , is very likely to be what happened . |
| 21 | ‘ But what is countable may not be what counts , ’ lamented one executive who had himself supervised a hundred engineers . |
| 22 | I have to remember we spent her first ten years together and hope that this will be what matters in the long run . |
| 23 | Everybody 's going to be what 's named and this that and the other . |
| 24 | Glenys will be what 's named running up and down the wall . |
| 25 | Right then what 's it gon na be what do you predict for my future , |
| 26 | Oh it should n't be what do you say ? |
| 27 | This may be what lies behind Bede 's statement that Cadwallon intended to destroy the whole nation ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 28 | This must be what shooting a film was like : the brightly lit scene , the ennui of waiting for the chief actors to appear tile brief moments of activity , the concentrated attention to detail . |
| 29 | One reason for their existence , for instance , may be what has been described above : the fact [ sic ] that writing establishes a different kind of relation between the word and its referent , a relationship that is more general and more abstract , and less closely connected with the particularities of person , place and time than obtains in oral communication . |
| 30 | However , if some setting that you have little or no first-hand experience of does happen to be what has made your imagination bubble and race , you need not cross it off altogether . |