Example sentences of "what they [verb] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daily maintenance consists merely of giving the walls and floor of the pond a once-over with a soft-bristled broom , to keep down blanketweed : suspended matter is then whisked away to both filters , and what they miss is picked up by the skimmer . |
| 2 | ‘ We are open to suggestions and ideas for the group ’ , said Diane , ‘ and we hope parents will tell us what they think is needed . |
| 3 | I think that people live in such a world of fantasy around what they think is going on and kidding themselves that they have some ‘ control ’ , that a kind of chink in the armour like that is terrifying . |
| 4 | People functioning on an imposed bias may be severely handicapped when what they think is expected of them is at some level distonic to their whole being . |
| 5 | We believe that many teachers who adopt such modes of interaction , though they do so partly as a matter of habit , are also responding to what they feel is expected of them . |
| 6 | Thomas is emphasising that the social behaviour of human beings is a product of what they decide is going on around them , of what they take the behaviour of others to mean . |
| 7 | A supporter said yesterday : ‘ What they want is to have somebody they can control , ’ but Mr Field found it impossible to operate on that basis . |
| 8 | Teachers of mother tongue students might argue that their students already have oral and communicative skills , that what they need is to learn and demonstrate literacy , that putting full stops in the right place and writing grammatical sentences is a sign of this literacy . |
| 9 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 10 | Mind , it is from er , what they do is send them through the post , just check 'em , make sure everything 's alright , ai n't it . |
| 11 | , yes , what they do is say a bloke , one bloke owns quite a bit of that cricket ground , Tesco 's he said , Tesco 's what they sa , they know that he want 's , he 's put the plans in to upgrade all , to get a bigger site somewhere else , for |
| 12 | I know there are those who would prefer anarchy to hold sway , but what they do is destroy everything about climbing most of us hold dear . |
| 13 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |