Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 2 | I have to remember we spent her first ten years together and hope that this will be what matters in the long run . |
| 3 | The social side of bridge may be what attracts to the game but here he can neither talk to nor see He bids with specially marked chips and passes his cards through a slot at the bottom of the screen . |
| 4 | So it may be surprising to find how little there is which impinges on the realm of science . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | then it 's what belongs in the trailer as to what belongs out |
| 8 | But it 's what happens to the ones who succeed which raises serious questions . |
| 9 | It 's what lies at the root of Courtaulds — the manipulation of cellulose . |
| 10 | It 's not what they say , it 's what lies underneath the words it 's interesting . |
| 11 | That 's what cuts off the headlights , you see . |
| 12 | That 's what pulls in the sail and makes you faster . |
| 13 | Theme is the element placed by the speaker in first position in the clause ; rheme is whatever comes after the theme . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ There is what remains of the intruders . ’ |
| 16 | This condition/consequence relation between know and the infinitive is what calls for the use of to . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One important issue we have not considered is what happens to the individual once he or she is labelled as criminal . |
| 20 | That is what happens in the big glass too , he wrote . |
| 21 | If this is what happens in the North now , how much worse then would things be in a united Ireland ? : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is what happens in the O. Henry stories , for example . |
| 24 | ( Moral : perceived success is what goes into the history books , not actual success . ) |
| 25 | Your own truth is what grows from the root upwards . |
| 26 | 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 . |