Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] it [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a moment before the traffic and travel news now for me to remind you that erm if you 're the chairman or the secretary or whatever it happens to be of a particular group whether it be erm the local amateur dramatics society or er a North Yorkshire charity and you 'd like the opportunity to have some prime time publicity for what you 're doing , particularly in the run-up to the Christmas period |
| 2 | So you 're able to reward people ah with some kind of appropriate er some kind of token , a star or whatever it happens to be , some kind of token which it can then hav has a monetary value , okay ? |
| 3 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 4 | But once you got well into the business of the removal , y one forgets , you see , and you forget exactly what you 're carrying or what it appears to be that you 're carrying . |
| 5 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 6 | Obscenity ‘ represents a much more fundamental assault on men and women and what it means to be human … [ it distorts ] human personality by depicting it as deprived of those characteristics which are essential to humanity [ since ] common to all obscene productions is the degradation of persons and of relations between persons ’ . |
| 7 | How you can be less pro-active than I M R O I ca n't understand or I M R O at that particular time , but what it appears to be me is that erm that if we 're not careful , we 're gon th the pension regulator 's just gon na be a rubber stamp factory . |