Example sentences of "what it [vb -s] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Truisms like ‘ the world is full of things that have what it takes to be in the world ’ are trivial , almost silly , until we come to apply them to a special kind of durability , durability in the form of lineages of multiple copies . |
| 2 | For DNA molecules , ‘ what it takes to be in the world ’ comes to have a meaning that is anything but obvious and tautological . |
| 3 | ‘ What it takes to be in the world ’ turns out to include the ability to build machines like you and me , the most complicated things in the known universe . |
| 4 | But everyone here now realises what it means to be in the Premier League . |
| 5 | ‘ It is reasonable for the Hong Kong government to do what it believes to be in the best interests of the people of Hong Kong . ’ |