Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] what it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvard has a reputation as the premier medical school in North America , and the fact that it has chosen to introduce sweeping changes in its course is likely to make other schools take stock of what it is doing . |
| 2 | Allowing that , being feelings , they are , more accurately speaking , in my mind , this use of ‘ perceive ’ , though to us a rather strained one , must seem to the Cartesian to be the paradigm for philosophically responsible talk of what it is to perceive something . |
| 3 | A theory which provides wide-ranging holist explanations , for example , will be successful , not in the light of any general conception of what it is to explain things , but in the light of the much more limited interest guiding holism . |
| 4 | cylindrical pierced metal candle shades which , placed in a shallow dish of water , steadied the flame and prevented the candle from setting light to what it was standing on . |
| 5 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 6 | To know this is part of competence with the concept of B ; part of what it is to know the meaning of ‘ B ’ . |
| 7 | And a large part of what it was teaching to the Germans it had learned from the Romans . |
| 8 | Her photographic fictions and fantasies spin ‘ a story of what it is to grow up ’ . |
| 9 | Anyone who thinks that there must be , and that there must be a process of encoding a thought into a form of words , says so in spite of , and not because of , his experience of what it is to say things . |
| 10 | The first , associated with Descartes , starts by considering the challenge of scepticism , the claim that knowledge is impossible ; and hopes in answering this challenge to be driven to expose the nature of what it is to know , from which the possibility of knowing will follow . |
| 11 | Analysis of the light absorbed by the atmosphere of Mars reveals a picture of what it is made of ; it matches the gas in the meteorites . |
| 12 | Perhaps we should launch a new investigation into what it is to underline what we underline . |
| 13 | ‘ With our own staff I believe the Company has fostered a greater sense of confidence in what it is seeking to achieve and the way it is going about achieving it . |
| 14 | Our congratulations should go out from the House to the national health service for what it is achieving . |
| 15 | The smile has to be understood by the other person as what it was meant to be — a friendly greeting . |
| 16 | Have you had a price on what it 's gon na cost to put that down ? |
| 17 | Endill held his breath as he watched it laugh and nod its head at what it was reading . |
| 18 | The instances are the practice and the practice is the rule ; a rule is ‘ internally related ’ to its instances , and the sceptic 's attempts to plant a gap between them simply betray a misconception of what it is to follow a rule . |
| 19 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |
| 20 | Yet too much concentration on the military angle could , in the end , lead the UN astray , causing it to lose sight of what it is trying to do . |
| 21 | They are times when the behaviour of an animal is uncertain ; which is just the kind of time when other animals will want information about what it is going to do . |
| 22 | The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has resulted in the Government deciding to end the life of the venerable Milk Marketing Board , set up in 1933 to buy all the milk produced in England and Wales , paving the way for what it is claimed will be a totally free market in milk . |
| 23 | If the model is rotating , or apparently flying backwards , or you are in any doubt about what it is doing , apply some forward cyclic . |
| 24 | Mountain View , California-based portable communications devices developer Eo Inc duly announced its partnership with AT&T Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Marubeni Corp to design , build and market the first generation of what it is calling personal communicators . |
| 25 | It gives one quite a strong idea of what it 's going to be like to be a corpse . ’ |
| 26 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 27 | ‘ What is new is the increased pressure within the health service for doctors to balance the effectiveness of drug treatment against what it is going to cost . ’ |
| 28 | This criticism depends on a view about what competence with a concept is , a view about what it is to know the meaning of a word , about what it is to know the rules for the application of that word , rules that take you from one instance to the next . |
| 29 | Indeed we may inhibit their development if we force them to use unfamiliar approaches which slow down their thinking in the cause of a mistaken view of what it is to work systematically . |
| 30 | When I was fifteen or sixteen I found a confirmation of my interest in what it is to take on your own past in some of Sartre 's work . |