Example sentences of "this [be] what [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is what fluent readers do , then there is surely a sense in which an expert is a slightly unreliable judge of how clearly a book is written . |
| 2 | On January 17th , the day after Mr Gorbachev called for the suspension of a new law designed to guarantee press freedom , Nezavisimaya Gazeta published a white space on its front page captioned : ‘ This is what Soviet newspapers will look like after political censorship is reimposed . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , in fact this is what other people did in the past . |
| 4 | This is what two players would each receive if they both consistently cooperated , scoring 3 points for each of the 200 rounds of the game . |
| 5 | This is what two players would each receive if they both consistently cooperated , scoring 3 points for each of the 200 rounds of the game . |
| 6 | It seems odd , now , but so it was : this is what young people did in those days . |
| 7 | This is what central government say that councils should be spending on its services given its populations ' age and social conditions . |
| 8 | This is what applied mathematics should be about ; not the fallacious misproofs of Stoke 's theorem or the relentless linearisation of the nonlinear that put me off applied mathematics for 15 years . |
| 9 | In practice , as Barrett and McMahon ( 1990 ) demonstrate from their learning-network of senior health service managers , this is what good managers spend a great deal of their time on . |
| 10 | Obviously he was calculating on the basis of marginal costs of running the car , but this is what all motorists do . |
| 11 | This is what real rock climbing is about for me : shorts and T-shirt , hot sunshine , good holds , and clipping bolts . |
| 12 | Especially when you consider this is what real people — lawyers , teachers , secretaries , waitresses , military officers and ditch diggers , among others — are doing behind closed doors . |
| 13 | This is what hierarchical systems ought to be about . |
| 14 | Very reluctantly , he is beginning to think of moving with his family to South Africa , This is what many families are likely to do , unless there is an unexpected development . |
| 15 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 16 | This is what cumulative evolution is all about , although , because of our high mutation rate , we have speeded it up here to unrealistic rates . |
| 17 | That may be a tenable position for the Soviet Union , but not for Britain , which has committed itself repeatedly to accepting both self-determination for the German people and a re-united Germany if this is what self- determination leads to . |
| 18 | In case you had n't realised , this is what pop music needs in 1992 . |
| 19 | This is what clinical judgment is all about . |
| 20 | This is what National Grid did last year . |
| 21 | This is what true education is about . |
| 22 | This is what most owners say when confronted by cherished furnishings , door frames or personal items , such as books or the remote control for the TV , that have been torn to shreds by beloved Rover in their absence , or nearly as distressing the evidence of his lack of toilet control . |
| 23 | This is what most career advisers would see as the recommended approach . |
| 24 | If you 're thinking this is what this company 's all about , then you ca n't cut your costs , because you ca n't give quality if you reduce costs . |
| 25 | ‘ This is what this song is all about/This is what this song is all about ’ rants Andy in the voice of a grizzly bear with PMT . |
| 26 | Erm , this is , this is what this school of thought tries to do . |
| 27 | So that the erm we really are again and this is what this diagram in Freud 's book is supposed to illustrate that the , the erm every every individual ego has its own ego ideal and objects external objects like erm say the Pope can become the focus of this erm individualistic narcissistic libido because every individual identifies the Pope with their own ego ideal . |
| 28 | These — this is what this group think of it in terms of some of the pros and cons . |
| 29 | You have to learn how to make good notes — this is what this chapter is about . |
| 30 | Havard , who came to be nicknamed ‘ Humphrey ’ ( because this was what one member of the group thought was his name ) and sometimes the UQ or Useless Quack , came to be a much loved friend of them all . |