Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I , what I li what I , what I knew about tinkers and , and that , cos there 's nobody , there 's nobody has any experience of what it was like . |
| 2 | The radial path of a light ray in these new coordinates is which has two solutions : . |
| 3 | Addison , well er , it 's a very well managed business , it 's a very good business er , there are only two businesses in the U S A have higher sales per head than Addison Wesley , and one of those is and it 's had a , that 's had a super time in maths and there 's only one business and that 's which earns more profit per employee then er , Addison Wesley and erm , again that 's and that reflects that one off maths programme . |
| 4 | On the day , it 's who handles any emergencies that crop up like blown fuses and late deliveries . |
| 5 | Sandie , who met Freddie when she was an 18-year-old dancer on his show , smiled broadly as he quipped : ‘ The real reason I 'm leaving my wife is she makes lousy coffee . ’ |
| 6 | All it means to me is one owes two pound more than other one . |
| 7 | For my life I can not understand , what is it makes this man now so lame , so hesitant , so crippled , who was wont to be hale and prompt enough . |
| 8 | That 's what takes real balls . |
| 9 | The pressure was off and he was fine and he was he was his normal self and that 's what happens each time |
| 10 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 11 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 12 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 13 | And that 's what holds these planets . |
| 14 | Now the next question is what does this evidence mean and what does one do with it . |
| 15 | Adversarial activity is what calls local government into being . |
| 16 | ‘ I wanted a really good box that I could work from , or that someone could work for me — which is what happens nine times out of ten — and then run direct into the amplifier without losing any gain , without gaining any hum and without losing any of the real naturalness of the Fender Strat and the Vox amp . ’ |
| 17 | This is what keeps those camera and hi-fi enthusiasts from settling on their chosen mix of bits . |
| 18 | Despite these important qualifications , Olson still implies elsewhere in that and other articles ( 1977 ; Hildyard and Olson , 1978 ) that writing itself can be unambiguous and that this is what facilitates objective knowledge . |
| 19 | Shock and horror is what sells these kinds of newspapers , unfortunately and they do a roaring trade , think about it , think about the vocabulary you gon na actually use . |
| 20 | ‘ Our use of colour is what prompts most comment . |
| 21 | It is what concerns most people . |
| 22 | I suspect that [ the ] very absence of quality is what makes such stuff attractive to children , not just because it is easy to read , undemanding , untaxing , but because the simplistic plots and characters leave children free to embroider and enrich the stories in their own way as they read . |
| 23 | GRAVITY : This is not properly understood , but it is what makes small things , like nomes , stick to big things , like planets . |
| 24 | This diversity is what makes arid lovers such and interesting and worthwhile range of plants to grow . |
| 25 | Restricted choice is what makes most diets boring — so any new range that increases choice is always welcome . |
| 26 | The impotence of the two parties to the wage bargain to bring about a reduction in the real wage rate is what makes Keynesian unemployment involuntary . |
| 27 | But obviously the past is what makes any person . |
| 28 | The random part is what makes genetic algorithms slow . |
| 29 | And that in general is what makes direct observations good . |
| 30 | This is what makes ductile metals so safe and tough and so popular . |