Example sentences of "what [is] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill .
2 She cleared her throat nervously and was just about to launch into a business like explanation when he said suddenly , ‘ So what 's with the altered image ? ’
3 When , just before closing , Wayne said , ‘ So what 's with the top hat , Jed ? ’
4 Time to find out what 's on the six thirty menu .
5 Try as we might to tell ourselves that it 's ‘ what 's on the inside that counts ’ , we have very little evidence to show that it 's true , and inside and outside can become confused , so that we feel bad on the inside but believe that if we altered what 's on the outside ( our bodies ) we could change how we feel .
6 , what 's on the bloody thing there ?
7 And one can only put the sudden drying-up of mounts for champion jockey Peter Scudamore down to whispers about him reaching an age when he 's beginning to wonder what 's on the other side of the racing fence .
8 We do n't know what 's on the other side , if anything .
9 What 's on the other movie channel .
10 yes I think what I can see of er of what 's on the other one on each fire
11 What 's on the other side ?
12 well this looks a load of rubbish , what 's on the other side ?
13 I wan na see what 's on the other side .
14 boring , then we looked to see what 's on the other side , but for some reason she was talking do n't they ?
15 What 's on the twenty second , Harry ?
16 I know you have done a C C Q on yourself and we 've looked at each page in detail but I think until you actually do it yourself and maybe write little prompts to let you know what 's on the next page so you can signpost it most effectively to move round the C C Q as opposed to you dri er as opposed to it driving you , you can drive it , but that should be done in the fullness of time but I do recommend you do it before you actually do your first full appointment cos it might pay you .
17 Let's see what 's on the next page .
18 I think you might like more what 's round the other side .
19 ‘ I want to see what 's round the next corner . ’
20 ‘ I could be involved in a number of different ways , ’ she continues , ‘ but I can still do it well enough , and you never know what 's around the next corner .
21 Hence , as another lawyer put it , ‘ what 's behind the working party is an attempt to keep commercial litigation in Scotland and to attract more ’ .
22 Herewith a sample of the most intriguing moments : Eat Yourself Fitter : ‘ What 's behind the fierce outspokenness against the work ethic in your lyrics ? ’
23 These will be the issues that 'll concentrate but more importantly , what 's in the best interest of our members ?
24 There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer .
25 What we 've got is the practice is totally different to what 's in the small print in the document .
26 What 's in the bloody name Holly ?
27 We 've a taster of what 's in the latest issue in our Practical Running section and look out for our generous subscription offers in this issue .
28 Even the enthusiasm of a Maury Temerlin ( 1976 ) does not tempt him to attribute this level of sophistication to Ameslan Lucy ; in part , for the obvious reason , that she would then be at risk to what is on the other side of this coin — moral guilt .
29 They " must set the standards of what is acceptable , of what is for the public good in the age in which we live " .
30 What is in the early novels seen as a lower-order truth or a fallen state is saved , or at least salvaged , as the very possibility of any higher order truth becomes increasingly remote .
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