Example sentences of "be [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real benefit is it gives you a reason to get out of bed in the morning . |
| 2 | That 's what worries me every minute . |
| 3 | That 's what gives them the power . |
| 4 | And that 's what gives you the pain right at the front . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what makes me an artist . ’ |
| 6 | The Mad Scene feature an ex-Ex Lion Tamer and experience in said Wire covers band is what makes them a sort of glum The Might Be Giants with guitars on the title track and a kind of Beatle Fall on the rest . |
| 7 | In addition to their orthodoxy on the issues , this is what makes them an asset to the DUP and this is what accounts for their displacing of some of the stalwarts . |
| 8 | These codes are shared by author and reader and their role in the text is what makes it a text . |
| 9 | We might suggest that in conceiving the rule for + 2 , we somehow already conceived all the instances , and this is what makes it the case that the ‘ correct ’ interpretation is correct . |
| 10 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |