Example sentences of "is what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such knowledge could , however , continue to be useful when used in a regional context , which is what the RANs do , enabling members to react to a wider range of human rights violations in any given region . |
| 2 | Personally I 'm not sure that highly detailed reality is what the theatre is truly about . |
| 3 | But that is what the arrangement was : an alliance rather than a consolidated interest or a genuinely shared culture . |
| 4 | That is what the third part of the project means . |
| 5 | This is what the Goldbergs and McGrindles can not understand . |
| 6 | As both composer and critic he touched both sides of the coin : A climate of receptivity is what the artist most desires . |
| 7 | That , he says , is what the Next Steps is all about : ‘ It will succeed only if it changes the way business is done and accounted for . ’ |
| 8 | This is what the House of Lords decided in two cases last April in spite of an attempt to get the valuers off the hook by a disclaimer which said : ‘ I accept that the valuer does not warrant anything stated in his report as being accurate … |
| 9 | Time is money and , after money , time is what the masses crave most . |
| 10 | The only area an exile hopes to cultivate is what the Americans call ‘ the chicken and peas circuit ’ — those endless dinners , lunches and buffet suppers by which the Conservative Party binds its supporters in a form of social cement out in the sticks . |
| 11 | It is inevitable and right that if we are to make God real for ourselves we must , to a considerable degree , speak of Him in human terms , which is what the Bible does when it speaks of Him as repenting , changing His mind , being provoked or made angry or sorrowful . |
| 12 | Such is what the traditional doctrines of divine omnipotence , preservation and providence are really saying . |
| 13 | Their cut will be around 30 per cent of the ‘ dealer ’ price , which is what the shops pay for your record , bearing in mind that your record will only reach the shops if the dealer asks for it . |
| 14 | More important than either of these is what the 325i has lost . |
| 15 | All we have is what the Gospels say that He said . |
| 16 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 17 | It saddens me to hear some people in Britain speak as if there were some way of keeping Germany divided whether or not this is what the Germans want . |
| 18 | Sir Anthony concludes : ‘ A regulatory agency — which is what the Department were , at the time , in relation to the protection of investors — ought , to my mind , by definition adopt a rigorous and enquiring approach as regards material coming into its possession concerning an undertaking about which suspicions have been aroused , and also as regards representations made to it on the part of the undertaking in question . |
| 19 | This is what the graph shows . |
| 20 | What they still lack is what the Tories would fear rather than scorn : three easy sentences to ring the bell . |
| 21 | Their contemporary , Batty Langley , advertised in the City and County Builder 's Treasury as being able to ‘ design and build Grottos , Cascades , Caves , Temples , Pavilions , and other Rural Buildings of Pleasure … in the Grand Taste ’ , and this is what the Halfpennys did for Clutterbuck . |
| 22 | They share the conventional wisdom of the nuclear lobby that what has stopped America 's nuclear industry in its tracks is what the NES calls an ‘ impossibly cumbersome nuclear licensing process ’ — of a kind that pro-nuclear countries like France do not allow . |
| 23 | Capital growth , above all , is what the industry sells to distinguish itself from boring old building societies . |
| 24 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 25 | But that is what the most popular newspapers are now doing . |
| 26 | Alternatively , if a firm made its issue thinking share prices were indeed going to rocket ( for that is what the low yields implied ) , then it could be worth its while to take the cash and invest it back into equities or other financial instruments . |
| 27 | In effect , he thinks that there can be a system or body of ‘ opinion ’ ; this , after all , is what the new ‘ natural philosophy ’ is . |
| 28 | That is what the name Jacob means , as we have seen . |
| 29 | That is what the long book of Deuteronomy deals with . |
| 30 | This concern for purity and order — for that is what the legislation is about — both reflected society 's concern for its own racial integrity and social cohesion , and in turn served to promote them . |