Example sentences of "to [be] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're born , they grow old , and they die like us ; and when they 're old , they can turn foolish , and even when they 're young , they can deceive you , and they 're actually capable of telling lies , pretending to be what they are n't : to be sick when they 're healthy , and healthy when they 're sick . ’ |
| 2 | But there also appears to be what Phillipson , drawing on Cicourel , would call ‘ basic interpretative rules ’ ( Phillipson 1972 : 148 ) , which the police employ when making practical decisions of this sort : the reasonableness of the offender 's excuse ( Ericson 1982 : 147 ) , and whether or not offenders display deference ( Black 1970 : 1101 ; Dix and Layzell 1983 : 73 ; Sykes and Clark 1975 ) . |
| 3 | The Masculine Dilemma : Wanting to Be What the Other Is |
| 4 | The older man explains why : ‘ Take my word for it — homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is ’ ( p. 337 ) . |
| 5 | And when X says homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is , the other is now not the other ( opposite ) sex , but the same sex , and X , as avowed heterosexual , has described his desire to displace the male . |
| 6 | The conversation had to be what he called ‘ bawdry . |
| 7 | She was always there trying to be what he wanted and she wanted to make things great for him . |
| 8 | Last week 's ‘ new cruzados ’ , ravaged by inflation , are blocked and replaced by cruzeiros ( which happens to be what the currency was called up till 1986 ) . |
| 9 | … This ‘ me ’ , that is to say , the soul by which I am what I am , is entirely distinct from body … and even if the body were not , the soul would not cease to be what it is . ’ |
| 10 | And while they force you to be what you do not want to be , they are also teaching you how to be parents . |
| 11 | Perhaps I could have tried harder to be what she wanted in a daughter-in-law . |
| 12 | ‘ Bound to be What is it ? ’ |
| 13 | Although it does not add to our profitability it appears to be what consumers want . |
| 14 | And thus the practical was gradually and increasingly held to be what the ‘ no-hopers ’ engaged in . |
| 15 | In the final analysis , what is on offer has to be what older customers want . |
| 16 | The initial problem seemed to be what part of my anatomy to visualize . |
| 17 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 18 | The challenge to take hold of the world and mould it into the Utopia so desired has so far not been seen by humanity to be what it is . |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah — Mum , I told you , did n't I — ’ Cal suddenly got excited — ‘ it 's because Bina 's not allowing herself to be what she ought to be ! |
| 20 | It was eminently satisfying : she appeared to be what Jonadab would have termed ‘ gob-smacked ’ . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , a lot of contemporary architects have been influenced by the Gropius school of thought which maintains that architects should allow a building to be what it wants to be , rather than imposing any character or theme upon it . |
| 22 | The poets , mankind 's unacknowledged legislators , have shown death to be what Anne Lindbergh , after the murder of her kidnapped child , saw as a little door . |
| 23 | That seems , anyway , to be what Tolkien came to think . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That used to be what the EC was dedicated to as well . |
| 26 | This last drawing exercise is a summary of the simple process of thinking which leads us into a deeper appreciation of how we have come to be what we are . |
| 27 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 28 | This does appear to be what happens . |
| 29 | Competition can be a spur to some pupils and fun in some activities , but the individual 's improvement of his own levels of attainment should be seen to be what really matters and be the most evident cause of encouragement . |
| 30 | There is simply no comparison with the terrorist Communist Party of Peru , the Sendero Luminoso , although that seems to be what Evans-Pritchard is hinting at . |