Example sentences of "[is] what [pron] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nostalgia , William , it 's what everyone 's after these days . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They 're for fun ; that 's what they 're for . ’ |
| 3 | But they 're apt to make me feel a bit I suppose that 's what they 're for , a bit docile like , you know what I mean ? |
| 4 | Because it 's actually part of the Inland Revenue so I mean that 's what they 're about |
| 5 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 6 | That 's what they were for , you moved them around . |
| 7 | ‘ Mebbe that 's what they were after in the first place . |
| 8 | That 's what we 're like ! |
| 9 | As Chuck explains , ‘ Any system that 's rated sets a tone , a feeling , and that 's what we 're after . ’ |
| 10 | They will put their product before the public and say look come and stay at our hotel , come and place your caravan in our camping site and that 's what we 're after . |
| 11 | And that er , that 's what it is on the thing , jacket potato on there ? |
| 12 | I 've smoked for over fifteen years , and it has become , it 's something to do with my hands and I think that 's what it is with me . |
| 13 | No , she said she gets arthritis in hers and I expect that 's what it is with mine . |
| 14 | mm , well that 's what it is in it ? , that 's what it is |
| 15 | That 's what it 's for the country . |
| 16 | Quite clearly the reason that people have been asked to come along this evening and have come along this evening is to put there points of view about how the see the theatre in the future what is programme facilities are the things that are n't happening here they feel should be happening here that 's what it 's for not here to serve any purpose for individuals to get up and make personal cuts on people or say what happen on a Saturday morning or a Thursday afternoon cos I |
| 17 | dress a dog up for your own amusement if that 's what it 's for . |
| 18 | Now in fact that 's not what we like our stewards to do , what we like our stewards to do is actually to help people to enjoy themselves , to help people to erm to enjoy the house and to sit on things and and and actually say , no please sit down on that if you like to , it 's perfectly alright , that 's what it 's for . |
| 19 | That 's what it 's for — speed , freedom and flexibility — and a hell of a lot of fun ! ’ |
| 20 | I mean , that 's what it 's for . |
| 21 | Cos it 's , the you 're supposed to that 's what it 's for so you can check all your spellings . |
| 22 | Well some folk music you can ca n't you , that 's what it 's for . |
| 23 | Yes , yes , that that 's what it 's for , is n't it . |
| 24 | I said that 's what it 's for , yeah , yeah . |
| 25 | Yeah that 's what it 's for the dog 's bean bag |
| 26 | second lazy shit no leave it on , the that 's what it 's for , for Christ sake , they 're giving you twenty five quid just telling what you saying , might be private , be happy there |
| 27 | That 's what it 's for . |
| 28 | That 's what it 's about now , in n it ? |
| 29 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 30 | that 's what it 's about is n't it , really ? |