Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the idea behind that is that it builds up and keeps in trim the muscles of the feet and ankles and legs , which is going to be what gets you about because you realize your retirement is going to be as good as your legs . |
| 2 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 3 | Deals are what drives him . |
| 4 | Not ‘ you are what you eat ’ but ‘ you are what you speak ’ or , rather ‘ you are what speaks you ’ , is the axiomatic basis of Robyn 's philosophy , which she would call , if required to give it a name , ‘ semiotic materialism ’ . |
| 5 | It 's not the easiest of places , but business works there , and business is money , and money is wages , and wages are what keeps my work-force happy . |
| 6 | Claudia had concluded that the rituals of life have a social significance : they are what makes us human . |
| 7 | Now the consequences of leaving it , are what makes you decide whether it 's something that 's important , and therefore you 've got to do something about it . |
| 8 | Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times . |
| 9 | Having been disinherited by his father he finds employment at a fashionable hairdresser 's which gives him materials for composing ‘ those brilliant efforts of genius , his fashionable novels ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's what bugs me about the experience . |
| 11 | If that 's what turns you on that 's fine by me , but please leave me out of them . |
| 12 | That 's what strikes me now . |
| 13 | That 's what depresses me . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what frightens me about this campaign for nuclear disarmament . |
| 15 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 16 | That 's what keeps them fighting in the hills . ’ |
| 17 | It 's what keeps them going . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what keeps me winning . ’ |
| 19 | That 's what keeps me doing it [ housework ] . |
| 20 | That 's what keeps me in business . |
| 21 | Now she says it 's what keeps her going . |
| 22 | You ca n't sort of like you wan na put shelves up and do things to the house , that 's what keeps her going , wan na put the rent up it 's got a lot of disadvantages . |
| 23 | " It 's what keeps us . " |
| 24 | And that 's what keeps , that 's what keeps it going . |
| 25 | that 's what keeps it why its kept so long then , then he said that |
| 26 | ‘ An ’ that 's what bothers me . |
| 27 | that 's what bothers me about it you ai n't |
| 28 | That 's what bothers me . |
| 29 | I fancy that 's what bothers them about a possible American end : whether Harry 's going to do any investigation of his own ideas over here . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I want to produce a winning side , that 's what motivates me . |