Example sentences of "that [be] what [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had married one of these complications , for that is what young women did in those days : educated young women married , straight out of college , as she and Liz had done . |
| 2 | None of this means that Thatcher would be right to oppose the modernisation of Europe 's political institutions , if that is what political union finally turns out to mean . |
| 3 | ‘ When two buffaloes fight the grass in between gets the worst of it ’ ; so runs a Burmese proverb , and that is what many Burmans think of Burma 's fate in the war . |
| 4 | What we would advocate , as indeed Mr Smith did earlier , is that there should be a a global figure for Greater York , and a reduction , in an appropriate reduction in the requirement for each district , and I believe that anticipating you might ask me what that is what that reduction should be , erm I I can say it must be related to the ca capacity , of that district within Greater York . |
| 5 | Finally , we have the inferences in ( 33 ) 6 that A is male , and of apparently higher social status than B. These are based most soundly on the vocative item sir , for that is what that word seems to mean . |
| 6 | Indeed , that is what all pollution control is about — people paying to live in a cleaner environment . |
| 7 | Every one of these parents can recount stories of being not believed , not looked at , not spoken to : that is what dead people experience , if the dead have experiences . |
| 8 | That is what Electronic Data Interchange is there to do . |
| 9 | That is what these people need to survive . |
| 10 | Travel back into those mists of time and you will meet many who have gone before and who also may have experienced these sudden sea frets , for that is what these mists are . |
| 11 | Can I just finally say that the whole import of the orders is to ensure that they look at the criteria of authorisation , they are concerned with the authorisation of firms which take public deposits and investments and when that is brought into question , when there is evidence to suggest that those criteria are not being adequately med it must be right to impose a non costly duty on the auditors to bring that about , that is what these orders do tonight , I think they 're an extremely welcome addition to the stable of measures of regulation and they will improve materially depositor protection . |
| 12 | But if we are doing well someone else is doing badly — that is what free markets are like . |
| 13 | The best way of dealing with poisonous views is to expose and destroy them , and that is what free speech does . |
| 14 | Decisive victory for either side : that is what Turkish policy , in so far as it has any power , has been striving to prevent . |
| 15 | That is what this issue is about — making British industry competitive , and that is what we have done . |
| 16 | That is what this document says . ’ |
| 17 | " It does n't bother — perhaps it should , but then that is what this business does to you . |
| 18 | David Quarmby , joint managing director , took an informal tour and commented in his opening address : ‘ A quality business deserves a quality environment for all those who work hard to support Central and Western stores , and that is what this office represents . ’ |
| 19 | These children the world over need your continued help and that is what this birthday appeal is all about . |
| 20 | That is what this chapter is all about . |
| 21 | But that is what Green Papers are for — to stimulate debate . |
| 22 | That 's what fore rib 's the small one . |
| 23 | What they do , they look they look around and they weigh up up pros and cons up , and it it 's like these insurance brokers , they ring all over to buy cheapest insurance for you , well , that 's what Allied Dunbar are doing . |
| 24 | That 's what sixty pound . |
| 25 | But that 's what all training should be really is n't it . |
| 26 | Yeah Reg 's have got order it or something , that 's what that Alison said . |
| 27 | Oh yeah , oh that 's what that bird . |
| 28 | Mm that 's what that girl 's just said to me you get a lot of erm , she said he 'll know it 's hard and I was saying that you know I , I put all me eggs in one basket with that , I mean that really knocked me for six |
| 29 | Erm , the storage binder , we , we , er , anticipate that you of course , will wind up with shelves full of storage binders housing various diaries , and you 'll want to know in ten years ' time , which storage binder has your nineteen ninety-four diary , erm , that 's what that label is for . |
| 30 | The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today . |