Example sentences of "is what [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lettuce for vegetarian fish can be left in the tank for several hours , allowing them to browse , which is what they would do in nature . |
| 2 | At least here it 's cared for , admired , which is what they would have wanted . |
| 3 | They can not become a liability and in my view that is what they would become , ’ Mr Dick said . |
| 4 | Tonight the 2 clubs will look at our film and this is what they 'll see . |
| 5 | ’ What worries me is what they 'll get up to by the time we get to the competitions , and they 're a bit bevvied . ’ |
| 6 | This , at its most exalted , represented the aspiration of Owenism ; and though few Owenites would have heard the song , when the time came for the countless host to stream in through gates of pearl , that surely is what they could have sung as they marched . |
| 7 | For the Royal Family to remain secure they have to remain aloof — I do not believe that is right , but that is what they should have done . |
| 8 | After all , if novelists truly wanted to simulate the delta of life 's possibilities , this is what they 'd do . |
| 9 | A big idiot is what they 'd say . |
| 10 | They may not call it a " pedagogical grammar " , but it is what they will mean . |
| 11 | But that , according to Mr Meacher , is what they will have to do . |
| 12 | W w w we can see , you can visualise from now if we start it now , you 'd say well , everyone now knows that if anything goes wrong , this is what they will have to pay , but how are you going to take it back ? |
| 13 | They want a fair deal and , under the Administration of my right hon. Friend the Member for Islywn ( Mr. Kinnock ) , justice and fair play is what they will get . |
| 14 | We believe that what has been described as paradoxical pain is what we would refer to as ‘ opioid poorly responsive ’ pain and that opioid responsiveness is a continuum that may be influenced by any of a large number of factors related to the patient and the drug as well as the pain . |
| 15 | Now if you were using this this is what we would do . |
| 16 | Now if you were using this this is what we would do . |
| 17 | Right what we 're going to do is to introduce the idea of expectations right , cos what this equation 's really saying right is that farmers expect price prevailing in T minus one alright to prevails in S T right so that 's what we 're , right , in their ex their expectation of prices in T , right are based on er current prices in sort of T minus one okay and that , that is what we would call erm expectations alright . |
| 18 | So our company can not have 31 October 1993 as its accounting reference date , which is what we would like . |
| 19 | In fact , it is particularly important for any popular movement to avoid the all-too-tempting trap of merely asserting that the law is what we would like it to be . |
| 20 | ‘ That , ’ Husband said , ‘ is what we would like your Major Maxim to toddle round and tell us . ’ |
| 21 | In fact , morally we wiped the floor with them , or that is what we would like to think anyway . |
| 22 | The first is what we might call the ‘ technical Pacific ’ — that immense body of water lying to the seaward of all the island arcs and groups within the Ocean 's obvious continental margins . |
| 23 | This is what we might call the Porter Scene in Macbeth technique . |
| 24 | That is what we might call suppression . |
| 25 | You could say , that er , a Hobbesian view of human nature , that people are basically anti-social egoistic and er , aggressive , and that if left to themselves , life would be a war , war against all , is what we might call a pessimistic view of human nature . |
| 26 | When a weak-form word is being contrasted with another word , e.g. : ‘ The letter 's from him , not to him ’ A similar case is what we might call a co-ordinated use of prepositions : ‘ I travel to and from London a lot ’ ‘ A work of and about literature ’ |
| 27 | Mind you he 's got it all worked out so right we know it 's six , six pound per square foot is what we 'll pay . |
| 28 | It said things like , ‘ Right James , this is what we 'll do . ’ |
| 29 | The girls looked at each other , then agreed ‘ Right , ’ said Yanto , ‘ then this is what we 'll do . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ This is what we 'll do , ’ Douglas told Cannutt , and he showed his stunt man his own routine , which Cannutt was obliged to film . |