Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [be] [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively .
2 The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) .
3 Any decision in favour of participating in a CU depends upon the ultimate objectives of economic policy , namely what it is that countries are attempting to maximise .
4 I shall begin , then , by trying to set out what it is that theists believe in and atheists do n't .
5 He observes people and places with a wry and uncanny sense of what it is that matters about them .
6 What it is that teachers are dissatisfied about we will return to later .
7 First , one has to identify what it is that undergraduates actually study .
8 We were trying to put a finger on what it is that humans and moles and earthworms and airliners and watches have in common with each other , but not with blancmange , or Mont Blanc , or the moon .
9 ‘ Having established what it is that people are interested in , you need to start with the individual .
10 Some use will be made of notions of risk , danger and pollution to analyse what it is that people find attractive or unattractive about such different environments .
11 Clinical judgment analysis and related approaches have allowed us to probe why doctors ' diagnostic and therapeutic decisions vary , what is really meant by a treatment success , and what it is that patients really value ( and fear ) about the treatments they are given .
12 Researchers within the tradition of accommodation theory have been most active in looking at the detail of " monolingual " interactions in an attempt to see exactly what it is that speakers are doing .
13 In comparing of the two liberal democratic party systems of Great Britain and the United States , let us first outline what it is that parties in liberal democracies are said to do .
14 And Masklin … no one knows exactly what it is that Masklin wants , except that it s very big .
15 The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in .
16 God has made everybody good at different things , so try to discover what it is that God has given you the ability to do , and try to do it as well as possible .
17 They will be of some use in working out what it was that testators hoped to achieve by adding on a trust disposition to provisions at civil law .
18 The changes of 1980 left local authorities in what was still a strong and , if they wished , an influential position in determining what it was that governors and schools should put their name to .
19 The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him .
20 And in the meantime , since he had spoken of things she ought to learn , she would see if he could tell her just what it was that women like Marie Moon and Audrey Covington-Pym did to stop themselves from bearing child after child after child .
21 Meg was n't sure what it was that Alice valued in her , but she knew what she valued in Alice .
22 Dandelion looked at Pipkin and realized what it was that Hazel was asking him to do .
23 She began to piece together what it was that Clare did .
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