Example sentences of "be what [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader 's question of a book or an article should be what function the writing is able or unable to perform ? |
| 2 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 3 | If yes it would be what date , thirty one twelve ? |
| 4 | The initial problem seemed to be what part of my anatomy to visualize . |
| 5 | There , walking down the middle of the shed in the gloom , I espied a dark blue-clad figure wearing what appeared to be what Dad used to call a ‘ steamraiser , , a shiny topped peaked cap . |
| 6 | John 's nine-hole Derryboye Road lay-out may not be what championship courses are made of , but they do n't come any prettier or more golfer friendly . |
| 7 | Cos when you , when you get to the stage that you 're at now basically , that it 's not that difficult be what sort of extra money to find |
| 8 | One issue will be what interest is to be payable on the retention monies . |
| 9 | I could be what number it is . |
| 10 | That seems to be what Opposition parties want . |
| 11 | It is obvious that a suitable norm of comparison should be what Enkvist calls " a contextually related norm " There would be little point in comparing Jane Austen 's style with that of contemporary legal writs or twentieth-century parliamentary reports . |
| 12 | Once the Cabinet purges of 1980 and 1981 had been completed , a large proportion of the Cabinet were what Nye Bevan would have called ‘ staircase ’ men , who owed their high office entirely to her patronage rather than any independent standing in the Conservative Party . |
| 13 | And results were what war was increasingly about . |
| 14 | But because methods are what psychology judges itself on , a woman-centred psychology needs to address them . |
| 15 | These are not just minor counter examples that prove the rule , as Olson 's reference to the personal nature of letters attempts to suggest : they are what literacy is . |
| 16 | They are what slimming is all about . |
| 17 | Thus the only relevant facts he does not know are what period the judiciary have recommended as the tariff , and what further comments the judges have made which will affect the Secretary of State 's decision on the tariff . |
| 18 | Hungry , driving people are what roadside restaurants are all about , and no one knows that better than Forte , the undisputed leaders in the field , serving millions of customers a year at hundreds of roadside locations nationwide . |
| 19 | What this long-term series will undoubtedly show is that there are no fixed trends in composition of the music of any given day , in this century ( or any other for that matter ) : the fluxes , the divergences , as well as the common interests and occasional influences , are what make music such a perpetually fascinating art . |
| 20 | Extrinsic signals representing the inner symbols are what make it possible for groups of humans to share a meaningful world . |
| 21 | Human lives do n't matter , but sovereigns are what make the world go round … |
| 22 | Style and passion are what make people succeed . |
| 23 | For this patient at Leicester General Hospital the T V screens are what make the operating theatre different . |
| 24 | These themes and features , so well sewn together are what make Great Expectations a truly great book . |
| 25 | A further consideration when measuring protein synthesis by taking liver biopsies at the time of surgery has been what effect , if any , the anaesthetic agents themselves would have on protein synthesis . |
| 26 | My dad went off with a Rodeo Groupie , that 's what Mom says . |
| 27 | That 's what choice means to people . |
| 28 | That 's what moo cows do . |
| 29 | What 's what noise ? |
| 30 | It 's it 's what philosophy you adopt . |