Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] be [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how you are and that 's how you have to start . |
| 2 | in the ploughing matches you see the size and smooth , that 's how they were and that was , what this wooden plough did . |
| 3 | The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms . |
| 4 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 5 | I lose track of where I am and all I know is that my baby is on the other side of the world . |
| 6 | She must have impressed Green for he gave eye-witness accounts of the so-called Sally of Buttermere and his various meetings with her in 1791 when she was but 14 , again in 1792,1794 , and in 1798 when he felt an irresistible wish to revisit Buttermere . |
| 7 | where , where you are and that |
| 8 | And that 's where we are and this morning . |
| 9 | Another group just said , they were rooms one through ten , and er one of the tank farm group said , we did n't know exactly where we were but this was I think the assumptions that Group two told me were er , were about that . |
| 10 | Now she was where we were and that office junior turned up she would have gone for there and I prob bet she will probably be quite |
| 11 | I 'd like to , just like to say that a woman erm , who can not have children erm and re has got to the end of the road , no medical mirac , miracles can help her , erm , if surrogacy is the only option for her then they 've , these pe , couples like myself have gone through such a long erm struggle to get where they are that any child that 's conceived is gon na be a wonderfully loved childed and explained , everything 's explained to the child as he or she grows up . |
| 12 | that 's what Dougy done when he , that Saturday afternoon when he was and that at the |
| 13 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 14 | Life-positions throw light on why it is that some people tend to be winners and some losers in life . |
| 15 | Given that this is the case , it is interesting and instructive to reflect on why it is that these people have decided to call us their ‘ clients ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 17 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 18 | The solar challenge is not just a test of speed … of brain … it 's also a trial of stamina and survival … you see come five o clock … the cars have to stop … wherever they are and that means a night camping in the bush … good fun for the Brits … |
| 19 | erm Clevedon , or wherever it is that these guys hang out . |