Example sentences of "what [is] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get rid of them nasty things down your throat what 's harbouring the germs . |
| 2 | I 'm convinced that could be what 's affected the Rose Bowl 's profits recently . |
| 3 | Sudden surges or dips in the mains supply are more common than blackouts , and you might not notice what 's causing the glitches in your work . |
| 4 | Yeah , that 's what 's causing the problem , very high urban wage rate but it does n't reflect market forces , so if you erm reduce the subsidies given to er industry |
| 5 | All the adrenaline is now remaining in your system with all these other hormones , and this is what 's causing the illnesses and the problems . |
| 6 | No at the moment it 's getti the tank the water tank is n't sealed , it 's drawing a lot of dust in , er we 've tried putting a cover over it and everything else and that 's what 's causing the sludging . |
| 7 | It 's all round here so the less I by here , all the and all muscles had all gone and they 're all pressing on a , on a nerve and that 's what 's causing the problem and she said that that was what . |
| 8 | We have what 's called the Enemy Aircraft Flight where the Luftwaffe tests captured British and American planes of every kind . |
| 9 | At present I 'm still working like a pianist controlling a small group and that means I constantly have to keep my mind on what 's holding the song together as I play . |
| 10 | Mind yer there 's good an' bad bosses , but it 's the solidarity of the workers what 's ringin' the changes . |
| 11 | What 's highlighted the whole issue of safe sex is , of course , the advent of acquired immunity deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) . |
| 12 | that 's what goes on and that 's what 's draining the Health Service as well . |
| 13 | I think I know what 's caused the trouble . |
| 14 | A child who suffers up to forty fits a day is baffling doctors , who say they do n't know what 's caused the little girl 's brain disorder . |
| 15 | What 's stopping the bottom of the ladder from . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's throwing the hammer ? ’ |
| 17 | Our weekly look at what 's rocking the new and used markets |
| 18 | Now what 's going the other way ? |
| 19 | Probably five eight rather than cos yeah I erm okay see erm right right right erm , so the thing that I would be looking for , if I could find this , would be what 's doing the colouring and how , how does that work ? |
| 20 | What 's making the news in home improvements . |
| 21 | But then I thought , Where would we be without the night watchmen of the world , guys with the talent to ignore totally what 's staring the rest of us in the eyeballs and tell us , in a good firm voice , preferably with a couple of well-chosen statistics how well it all is ? |
| 22 | Another finding of these analyses worthy of note is the uneven incidence of sex discrimination ( if that 's what 's explaining the otherwise unexplained gap ) . |
| 23 | Erm , and we put to them they ca n't take a simplistic approach of saying this is what 's to cover the cost in selling from there and that is all that 's available to place people more appropriately in the community . |
| 24 | Once the observations are completed the parents can devise a hypothesis about what is maintaining the problem behaviour . |
| 25 | The Atapeuerca skeletal sample is large by the standards of any other Middle Pleistocene hominid site , so it provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the internal morphological and metrical variation of what is assumed the represent a penecontemporaneous sample of individuals of different ages and sex . |
| 26 | On the other hand what is holding the Index back is the drug companies . |
| 27 | We come to the idea , then , that what is flattening the napkin is this bottle 's weight , an individual or particular property of this bottle of wine and of nothing else whatsoever . |
| 28 | If the reduced ‘ g ’ occurs because the air is turbulent , there is no visual sign of what is causing the sensation . |
| 29 | These are the results ; but what is causing the variation ? |
| 30 | It is attempting to find out what is causing the mix , indicating it does not have its fingers on the distribution pulse because of its two-tiered channel . |