Example sentences of "be what [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The to infinitive after and then , on the other hand , creates the impression of a delayed reaction ; it suggests that it took a moment 's reflection for the person to realize the import of what he had seen , this realization being what triggered his sudden cry . |
| 2 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
| 3 | I reckon that 's what made me ill , it 's your fault . |
| 4 | Perhaps that 's what made her ill , being sort of stuck between two generations . ’ |
| 5 | ( It was also , of course , disgusting and deplorable : that 's what made it such a success . ) |
| 6 | Your mother presumably , who forced you to do that , was happier than you were about it happening , and that 's what made you sad . |
| 7 | That 's what left him open to what she was going to do to him . |
| 8 | To Richard , it was always the deal ; that 's what got him excited . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's what kept me awake last night — facing up to the fact that my behaviour , anyway as far as you were concerned , was as devious and manipulative as anything that William Ash could come up with . |
| 10 | And mum always used to say that 's what gave you that hernia that walking all the way for food ! |
| 11 | That 's what worries me most ! |
| 12 | That 's what you call a grounding , and it 's what makes him confident if he does get to meet Big Ron at Villa Park next season . |
| 13 | More than anything , it 's what makes him unique : this ability to combine a hoarse moral anger at the way the world is turning with the basic confusion shared by us all . |
| 14 | and that 's what makes me evil , that 's why I say I 'd moved heaven and earth for someone who 's nice |
| 15 | That 's what makes me sick : you laughing and chatting with Stok while our boy was sitting there petrified . ’ |
| 16 | That 's what makes it worse . |
| 17 | And it stretches all the tissue on this inside , and that 's what makes it sore . |
| 18 | Part of my job as a media commentator is to slag off other journalists — it 's what makes it all worthwhile — and I 've put knees into the groins of such eminences as Alastair Burnet , Peter Sissons and Donald Trelford , without so much as a raised eyebrow in Kingsland or City roads . |
| 19 | ‘ Absolutely , warts and all ; that 's what makes it good fun . |
| 20 | The point for Kojak will not be the relevance of the information , nor the nature of it , but merely that he has it and others do n't — that 's what makes it valuable and Kojak a computer stud . |
| 21 | Every day is different , that 's what makes it interesting . |
| 22 | See we 're that 's what makes us well that 's what makes us seventy two now . |
| 23 | That 's what makes us significant , three very different kinds of people able to work together in a band . ’ |
| 24 | I think that 's what started it all off I think she 's running off . |
| 25 | A rope can : be what binds us all together as we make our journey through the secret caves |
| 26 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 27 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 28 | This is what made them 'special " . |
| 29 | It is what makes him such a refreshing literary historian . |
| 30 | The pretence that this is not so is what makes me sick , he wrote , when I look at the works of the past . |