Example sentences of "[Wh det] it be [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Theodora wondered which it was in this case .
2 We were quick to condemn American Open Champion , Curtis Strange , for voicing his opinion of a spectator , a cameraman — whatever it was during this year 's U.S.P.G.A. Championship .
3 I do n't know what it is about this study … sort of phoney .
4 If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur .
5 But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting .
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