Example sentences of "what be [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are they in such a hurry for ? |
| 2 | But then the thing is what are you on next week ? |
| 3 | What are you like first thing in the morning ? |
| 4 | ‘ What are you after all but a journalist ? |
| 5 | Is minus one , what 's one times two ? |
| 6 | What 's one plus two ? |
| 7 | What 's he worth these days ? |
| 8 | It 's what 's it on that |
| 9 | What is there in this to evoke the shades of a third of a million dead Frenchmen ? |
| 10 | ‘ What is there in this for Edward Plantagenet ? ’ |
| 11 | what is there in this brochure that tells me whether it 's the first edition , the second edition or the third edition ? |
| 12 | Without women , life is a pub , a reptile bar at a quarter to three Have you noticed , you guys , the way black or blue or red underpants stay clean for days on end , whereas white underpants — what is it with white underpants ? |
| 13 | What is it with these Iranians and their second sight ? |
| 14 | What is it with these Iranians ? |
| 15 | What is it with these exploding , these joke-shop , these trick underpants ? |
| 16 | ‘ What is it with this Skinner ? ’ asked Anne . |
| 17 | What is it with this guy , I thought , I did n't go near any bloody butter . |
| 18 | ‘ What is it about that ship ? |
| 19 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 20 | From the second point of view , the central issue would not be ‘ What is it about black children that causes them to fail ? ’ but ‘ What is wrong with an educational system that produces failure and does not recognize the cultural distinctiveness of black people , whether West Indian or Asian ? ’ |
| 21 | What is it about any situation that stops you succeeding ? |
| 22 | What is it about local economic policies that make them ‘ local ’ ? |
| 23 | What is it about this course which helps you to learn ? |
| 24 | What is it about these lads that excites teenagers ? |
| 25 | But what is it about these forms of thought that is ‘ idealist ’ ? |
| 26 | Incidentally , what is it about old railway earthworks that one finds attractive ? |
| 27 | What is it in everyday life ? |
| 28 | What was he in civil life ? |
| 29 | What was it with these women ? |
| 30 | What was it with this guy ? |