Example sentences of "is what [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's that 's what this is what this is what times means it just means lots of . |
| 2 | That choice is what continues to divide the judiciary . |
| 3 | The device which holds the design together is the grid and this is what gets designed first . |
| 4 | And what is what does hoping mean ? |
| 5 | In any case , if one insists on talking about knowledge , the question that will have to be answered sooner or later is what does constitute genuine knowledge , and if it should turn out , as it well might , that in defining the conditions of knowledge one has to make use of existential propositions of one sort or another , then the suggested reductivist paraphrase will not have achieved its purpose . |
| 6 | Erm the only thing is what does happen occasionally is somebody comes from the D S S offices and they 've been told , I need a B one . |
| 7 | Home advantage meant that pitches could be prepared especially to suit fast bowlers , and come the first Test in Jamaica it was soon evident this is what had happened . |
| 8 | This , I believe , is what had happened at Canterbury between 1070 and 1122 , and more pathetically between 1170 and 1235 . |
| 9 | This is what had happened in 1931 when Ramsay MacDonald 's Labour government had attempted a very small expansion of spending . |
| 10 | Money or the lack of it is what had modelled the railwayman 's thinking in the formative years of BR . |
| 11 | The knowledge that this is what occurs comes primarily from stability theory — applied not to the rest configuration as in Section 22.2 , but to the various possible convective structures . |
| 12 | It is what helps keep them sane , chained to a wall not knowing if they are going to live or die . |
| 13 | But their ‘ good songwriting ’ ethic is what makes Go ! |
| 14 | Recall is what fails to happen when you are stumped by an examination question . |
| 15 | This business of planning rehabilitation and planning adoption — fostering with a potential view to adoption simultaneously , which is what seems to happen now — seems to me absolutely dotty ! |
| 16 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 17 | This is what seems to have been behind the ‘ skinhead ’ or ‘ boot-boy ’ phenomenon that has been a part of football hooliganism . |
| 18 | The decision must be our Government 's alone and that is what seems to have happened . |
| 19 | This is what seems to have happened early in the history of the Earth , because the oldest known fossil remains of proteinoid globules are believed to date back about 4 billion years . |
| 20 | This is what seems to have happened in the late Victorian music hall , when a style evoking a particular class subject — the ‘ remade ’ working class described by the historian Gareth Stedman Jones ( 1974 ) — is crossed with political elements — the ideology of imperialism — resulting in a relatively unified mode of ‘ popular imperialism ’ within this song category . |
| 21 | And if I can possibly we might do it in a kind of pinky colour which is what seems to have been at least on part of the house . |
| 22 | Such a theory puts the family at the centre of society : it is what gives meaning to culture and responsibility to individuals . |
| 23 | The fact that the two leading English choreographers create so many unusual ports de bras as a means of expression is what has made so — many Royal Ballet dancers so successful in ballets with a story . |
| 24 | That is what has made the Tory policy of selling off council houses at prices advantageous to the tenants a much more electorally significant event than any of the plans for wider share ownership promoted or floated by Tory , Liberal Democrat or Labour politicians . |
| 25 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 26 | What we have not changed is what has made the book so popular with your students , in particular the themes which combine so well the requirements of the exam with the interests of students at this age . |
| 27 | This , he believes , is what has made Unisys Corp ‘ the most profitable computer company in the world ’ — since the merger of Univac and Burroughs , it has not only kept headcount low , but also used the profits generated from mainframe sales to develop portable software applications . |
| 28 | That is what has made us so attractive . |
| 29 | Knowledge concerning that enlightenment was what he passed on to his disciples , and this — the positive content of the Four Noble Truths and the teaching of the Middle Way — is what has made Buddhism live down the ages and still today . |
| 30 | Says Frances , 53 , of Delamere Road , Ainsdale : ‘ I love meeting people and that is what has made it all so special . |