Example sentences of "be [adv] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what is more dishonest is the simple fact that the wines are not what they purport to be . |
| 2 | What few people seem to accept is that he might be exactly what he appears to be . |
| 3 | ‘ We won at Wimbledon last month and Vinny might be just what they need to gee them up . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm always what I want to be , ’ she said with a frown . |
| 5 | In some cases people are invited into a laboratory and may be given tasks to carry out which may or may not be quite what they seem to be . |
| 6 | They supply energy , essential protein , vitamins , minerals and bulk , and it is only what you do to them , that adds on the calories and fats . |
| 7 | Yes well that 's exactly what they said to me . |
| 8 | That 's exactly what they said to Mike the clerk , how you going to pay ? |
| 9 | down all these Coronation Street type houses , and erm one of her friends was on the telephone the other night and er this chap draws up in the car and she says I , I wo n't be a minute , and he comes straight out of his car , he said I 'll give you one minute he said , I 'll drive my car and come back down that ro up back to the telephone box and he said if you ai n't gone by then he said I 'll smash your fucking face in , that 's exactly what he said to her . |
| 10 | It is not what it pretends to be . |
| 11 | All is not what it seems to be ; ’ |
| 12 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That 's just what I said to Mr Yarrow . |
| 15 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 16 | " But it 's not what I want to be . |
| 17 | Yeah well it was the , it was a week ago so it 's not what I did to it , it would n't stay soggy after what I did to it . |
| 18 | You c it 's not what you say to the dog , it 's how you say it y'know . |
| 19 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's really what I wanted to be like — all the cosmetics mentioned were products I used growing up . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But I know he is n't what he seems to be . |
| 22 | ‘ It was exactly what I said to Kathleen when she was so worried about you in hospital . ’ |
| 23 | He 'd then offered to come back with her , so that she was n't returning to an empty house alone , at which point — running out of soothing phrases and patience — she 'd told him that alone was exactly what she wanted to be . |
| 24 | He had seen that Charity Marlowe was exactly what she appeared to be . |
| 25 | He designed from the inside out and , despite the basic similarities of his main plan types , he never had difficulty in giving his major buildings a very individual architectural expression in which every element of the design was exactly what it appeared to be . |
| 26 | But then Matthew was not what he appeared to be . |
| 27 | What called out to her was surely what she felt to be Pollock 's destiny as an artist . |
| 28 | She was n't what she wanted to be either . |
| 29 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |