Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 32 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |
| 33 | Her ability to repeat what she heard was the only language task which she could perform at all well . |
| 34 | She set off towards what she imagined was the outer door , intending to walk in the open , but in a moment she had somehow lost herself in the maze of corridors . |
| 35 | She compares it with what she thinks is the right behaviour , judges what is wrong ( in this case , everything was right except the way Nina was holding the hammer ) , and then corrects the mistake by demonstrating the right way . |
| 36 | Determined to make a go of things , Nikki is not letting financial constraints get in the way of what she believes is the best long-term course of action for the kids . |
| 37 | Orlan is attempting to mould that ‘ costume ’ to achieve what she believes is the perfect face — one that copies all the attributes of the goddesses of Greek and Roman mythology as portayed by the world 's greatest artists . |
| 38 | What you miss is the additional instability emanating from the treaty itself . |
| 39 | And yet above that and beyond that what you were seeking to do was not just to serve the Board of World Mission and Unity , it was to serve what you believed was the good and right for the church of god which you have sought to serve and to support and to take further . |
| 40 | The idea is that if you build groins then it gets trapped by the groin , it can no longer travel erm pass beyond it , and what you get is the gradual fill-up with beach material between groins . |
| 41 | Okay erm what I 'd like you to do now is I 'd like you to tell me what you think are the important things about fractions and anything important or interesting that you 've learnt this afternoon . |
| 42 | Write a letter detailing your experience in language learning , and explain what you think is the best way to go about it . |
| 43 | In no more than ten words , express what you think is the major advantage of mixing Arelon WDG and Hoegrass … |
| 44 | You may have sacrificed the comfort of your ultra-soft toilet paper for what you think is the recycled stuff — but it is possible you are being conned . |
| 45 | You curse when they fail and when you bring what you feel is the perfect bloom against others you still fail |
| 46 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 47 | What we got was the jelly-like wobbling of Western pop 's fulsome , milky tit in the face of the starving . |
| 48 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 49 | In 1958 then , I was a member of what we knew was the premier force in the area with the external boundaries of the adjacent forces as our immediate threshold to what Douglas ( 1966 : 137 ) had called ‘ new status ’ . |
| 50 | What we have is the mediocre trying to replace the ordinary . |
| 51 | And thirdly , it has a very real er value in that , in going for er certification , we are actually putting checks and procedures in place which will help to ensure that what we do is the right price , is to the right time and is the right product . |
| 52 | Cheddleton Chairman Mr Phillip Oldfield commented : ‘ We have had far more requests from railways for use of the engine than we imagined we would have , it 's been a matter of accepting what we feel is the best offer . |
| 53 | ‘ We bring what we believe is the best art , and let people see it in the light of their own country and in the light of their own culture ’ , he says . |
| 54 | Find out the best way to do it and then by this date we 're gon na assume a graph of procedures to work around what we decide is the best way to . |
| 55 | I am sure that , as parliamentarians , we are all greatly influenced in our views by different levels of loyalties — to our constituents , to our party , to our region , whatever part of the United Kingdom we come from , to the United Kingdom and , if we believe in an evolving European Community , to what we think are the best interests of the Community as a whole . |
| 56 | ‘ Are you having a good meeting ? ’ , you know , and then of course all decisions involve human evaluations because a decision is a choice among alternative images of the future really and we evaluate these and pick out what we think is the best , obviously . |
| 57 | Boltwood believes that we all get stuck in what we think is the only reality . |
| 58 | Because , hopefully , the product of this discussion is that we 'll look at each grant , judge it on its merits , and then come up with what we think 's the right figure . |
| 59 | Late risers always exasperate early risers like myself , who hate to miss what they know is the best part of the day . |
| 60 | They blocked the entrances in protest at what they claim is the unnecessary culling of badgers organised from the base . |