Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All … all that I 'm saying is that I would like my job and what I do ideally to be like that . |
| 2 | So , after a month with two guitarists , we were back to being what we started out to be , a four-piece . |
| 3 | Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be : a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly . |
| 4 | Lord Gardiner said that they were secret , illegal , not morally justifiable and alien to the traditions of what he believed still to be the greatest democracy in the world . |
| 5 | If a professional binder is employed , make very sure that he is what he sets out to be and has all the qualities of sensitive craftsmanship the work demands . |
| 6 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 7 | This is what it means truly to be a child of God . |
| 8 | Then , at that point I decided there must be something else out there , and what it turned out to be was music from other countries . |
| 9 | What it turned out to be was a lump of clay that I 'd moulded into what looked like a piece of black and wrapped up in silver paper just fooling about and they really freaked out and they kicked me out and had the police involved and everything . |
| 10 | If that is what it turned out to be , it is certainly not what those most concerned to secure or prevent the passage of the Bill thought at the time . |
| 11 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |