Example sentences of "it is [that] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never dared to ask , but I understand now what it is that drives addicts back to the needle time and time again whatever the cost to their health and sanity ; I understand now what the mystics lay claim to when they speak of the peace that passeth all understanding . |
| 2 | The parents will begin to identify what it is that irritates them so much . |
| 3 | If one considers the difference between my father at such moments and a figure such as Mr Jack Neighbours even with the best of his technical flourishes , I believe one may begin to distinguish what it is that separates a ‘ great ’ butler from a merely competent one . |
| 4 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 5 | It 's a previously unexplored area , but W.H.Smith/Do It All commissioned a media psychologist , Jane Firbank , to investigate what it is that motivates a phenomenally , perhaps weirdly , growing pastime . |
| 6 | The approach to understanding organisations that concentrates its focus on people within organisations needs to be aware of what it is that motivates people within those organisations . |
| 7 | We have already examined the Human Relations approach to organisations , and this is a precursor to examining what it is that motivates people to perform within organisations . |
| 8 | For you know I often wonder what sort of morality it is that keeps men from anything but superficial intercourse with any woman but their wives : yet I hate adultery & all the intermediate stages ; and what men of free habits in this way I have known , I have detested . |
| 9 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 11 | By contrast , how is the primary school to manage what it is that passes to the secondary school ? |
| 12 | I wonder what it is that intervenes to make him so self-destructive ? ’ |
| 13 | Whatever it is that decides when such changes in fashion , in culture , come about — I 'd say that is the real futurology , the thing to try to predict … |
| 14 | In the approach that follows , the inspirational , you can use the participative approach to find what exactly it is that you 've got in common and what it is that turns people on . |
| 15 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
| 16 | Find out just what it is that provokes such different reactions as Kate Ogborn , the BFI 's executive producer , presents a selection of films and talks frankly with the directors about their work and what the scheme has to offer . |
| 17 | Now although it is true that we need to consider contextual factors to explain what it is that creates a feeling of unity in stretches of language of more than one sentence , we can not say that there are no formal links between sentences in discourse . |
| 18 | Think , too , about the circumstances under which you can not keep to your resolves , and analyse exactly what it is that makes you behave the way you do . |
| 19 | A recent investigation of moorhens is one of the first studies to show exactly what it is that makes for a high quality mate ( Science , vol 220 , p 413 ) . |
| 20 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |
| 21 | It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common . |
| 22 | Examine all the humour you come across — in shops , at work , with children , on the TV — and try to ascertain what it is that makes something funny for you . |
| 23 | His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ . |
| 24 | Aristotle 's argument concerns the question of what it is that makes an action ‘ voluntary ’ , done of a person 's own free will , and in order to answer this question , he distinguished between actions whose origin was ‘ inside ’ a person , and those whose origin was ‘ outside ’ , which resulted from external influences or pressure or compulsion . |
| 25 | In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means . |
| 26 | The fact that meaning is not constructed from the formal language of the message alone is crucial in explaining what it is that makes people perceive some stretches of language as coherent discourse and others as disconnected jumbles . |
| 27 | ‘ Being around you for any length of time , I 'd sooner know what it is that makes you tick . |
| 28 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 29 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 30 | With more than 130 successful wines to choose from , it would be a very pleasant experience indeed just trying to find out what it is that makes a good wine a winner , observed one Winemark spokesman . |