Example sentences of "[is] [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it may be surprising to find how little there is which impinges on the realm of science . |
| 2 | Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience . |
| 3 | Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience . |
| 4 | then it 's what belongs in the trailer as to what belongs out |
| 5 | But it 's what happens to the ones who succeed which raises serious questions . |
| 6 | It 's what lies at the root of Courtaulds — the manipulation of cellulose . |
| 7 | It 's not what they say , it 's what lies underneath the words it 's interesting . |
| 8 | ‘ The blotter , the enamel mug , the tea towel and the diary are all important and there 's what looks like a recently struck match in the grate ; we need that . |
| 9 | That 's what cuts off the headlights , you see . |
| 10 | That 's what pulls in the sail and makes you faster . |
| 11 | Theme is the element placed by the speaker in first position in the clause ; rheme is whatever comes after the theme . |
| 12 | He had admitted some years before that his prose was that of a controversialist rather than a " thinker " and this is what emerges in The Idea of a Christian Society . |
| 13 | ‘ There is what remains of the intruders . ’ |
| 14 | This condition/consequence relation between know and the infinitive is what calls for the use of to . |
| 15 | The coincidence between the two representations of person ( in passing , both are representations of the same extra-linguistic entity ) is what calls for the use of the bare infinitive . |
| 16 | And this is what happens to the podvig tic which obsesses the notebooks and the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter : it becomes deflected and surrealized into eruptive impenetrable little freaks . |
| 17 | One important issue we have not considered is what happens to the individual once he or she is labelled as criminal . |
| 18 | And then the other thing is what happens with a carbonate and an acid ? |
| 19 | Well the easiest one perhaps is what happens with an acid and an alkali . |
| 20 | This is what happens during a successful chase , as one individual falls behind or gets separated in some way from the rest . |
| 21 | That is what happens in the big glass too , he wrote . |
| 22 | If this is what happens in the North now , how much worse then would things be in a united Ireland ? : |
| 23 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
| 24 | This is what happens in the O. Henry stories , for example . |
| 25 | ( Moral : perceived success is what goes into the history books , not actual success . ) |
| 26 | At the heart of the system is what looks like a giant syringe . |
| 27 | The meeting rooms were next to his own and there is what looks like a peephole through the door . |
| 28 | Your own truth is what grows from the root upwards . |
| 29 | Indeed this is what accounts for the impression given by this type of use that there is a difference between what was perceived and what actually happened . |