Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [be] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 2 | Sort of erm if you erm tt I do n't know , in some way succeed in , in noting or recording or , or something erm you know whatever it is that people are doing . |
| 3 | Whatever it was that Bob Dylan , the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had done , a lot of black artists wanted the freedom to follow . |
| 4 | All Rincewind had to do was shake off his guards , fight his way out of the Tree , find the temple and steal the horse out from under whatever it was that Bel-Shamharoth used for a nose . |
| 5 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 6 | But in her mother 's kiss she had learned something of the importance of whatever it was that Rachel had to do . |
| 7 | The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) . |
| 8 | Any decision in favour of participating in a CU depends upon the ultimate objectives of economic policy , namely what it is that countries are attempting to maximise . |
| 9 | I shall begin , then , by trying to set out what it is that theists believe in and atheists do n't . |
| 10 | He observes people and places with a wry and uncanny sense of what it is that matters about them . |
| 11 | What it is that teachers are dissatisfied about we will return to later . |
| 12 | First , one has to identify what it is that undergraduates actually study . |
| 13 | We were trying to put a finger on what it is that humans and moles and earthworms and airliners and watches have in common with each other , but not with blancmange , or Mont Blanc , or the moon . |
| 14 | ‘ Having established what it is that people are interested in , you need to start with the individual . |
| 15 | Some use will be made of notions of risk , danger and pollution to analyse what it is that people find attractive or unattractive about such different environments . |
| 16 | Clinical judgment analysis and related approaches have allowed us to probe why doctors ' diagnostic and therapeutic decisions vary , what is really meant by a treatment success , and what it is that patients really value ( and fear ) about the treatments they are given . |
| 17 | Researchers within the tradition of accommodation theory have been most active in looking at the detail of " monolingual " interactions in an attempt to see exactly what it is that speakers are doing . |
| 18 | In comparing of the two liberal democratic party systems of Great Britain and the United States , let us first outline what it is that parties in liberal democracies are said to do . |
| 19 | And Masklin … no one knows exactly what it is that Masklin wants , except that it s very big . |
| 20 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 21 | God has made everybody good at different things , so try to discover what it is that God has given you the ability to do , and try to do it as well as possible . |
| 22 | They will be of some use in working out what it was that testators hoped to achieve by adding on a trust disposition to provisions at civil law . |
| 23 | The changes of 1980 left local authorities in what was still a strong and , if they wished , an influential position in determining what it was that governors and schools should put their name to . |
| 24 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 25 | And in the meantime , since he had spoken of things she ought to learn , she would see if he could tell her just what it was that women like Marie Moon and Audrey Covington-Pym did to stop themselves from bearing child after child after child . |
| 26 | Meg was n't sure what it was that Alice valued in her , but she knew what she valued in Alice . |
| 27 | Dandelion looked at Pipkin and realized what it was that Hazel was asking him to do . |
| 28 | She began to piece together what it was that Clare did . |