Example sentences of "what be [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And what are we in a position to offer them ?
2 What are we in the job for if not for challenges like this ?
3 What 's he in the bed for then ?
4 You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility
5 ten to ten what , what is it on the chef 's programme ? ,
6 What , what is it as a paradigm .
7 And what is it about the cat that is the specific trigger for the irrational panics ?
8 What is it about the changes that occur in a crossroads period that mark them out as structural changes , distinct from the movement and change experienced during the intervening years ?
9 The question really means : What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment ?
10 If it is indeed the loosening of control over associative thought — Woolf 's ‘ Wings in the Head ’ — that is the basic mechanism responsible for autism then the question arises : what is it about the mind that modulates this process , allowing it some free rein , though being capable on occasions of going badly awry , leading to psychosis ?
11 What was it at the period in the recent past that fascinates you ?
12 What was it about a waistcoat that was so piercingly sexy ? she wondered dully .
13 What was it about the setup that you 'd be most critical of ?
14 What was it about the name that made them want to funk on down and start praising the Lord ?
15 What was it about the man that set her every nerve on edge , made her tingle with an unfortunate awareness of him ?
16 The memory of Nancy brings me back to the question that occupied me so much , what was it about the Centre that could transform misery , bitterness and hatred into love and hope , and possibly even happiness , all in the space of fourteen days ?
17 What was it about the station that was so fascinating ?
18 But what was it about the concept of citizenship that made it so popular in political discussion and why were ‘ boy labour ’ reformers so eager to introduce working-class adolescents to its supposed virtues ?
19 What was it about the stocks various licensed dealers traded in that seduced clients ?
20 What was it about the report that you found so interesting , for future reference ? ’
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