Example sentences of "what [pron] [is] to be [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
2 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
3 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
4 | They are concerned with reductionism , and with what it is to be a ‘ self ’ . |
5 | But because there is some uncertainty about what it is to be a professional librarian and how to respond professionally to many situations , there can be rather tao many difficult decisions to be made ; and the dilemma is not helped by the weakness of the profession , both inherent and externally perceived , on the issue of censorship . |
6 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
7 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
8 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
9 | My argument is that ideology is also a moral system , and that moral values must be directly related to ideas of human nature : what it is to be a person . |
10 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
11 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
12 | Lévi-Strauss ' point here , however , is simply the objection that Sartre defines ‘ man ’ in advance , predetermined by the particular experience of what it is to be a man in twentieth-century post-war French society . |
13 | The most striking feature of pupil descriptions of what it is to be a good teacher is the great emphasis placed on interpersonal respect . |
14 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
15 | But part , I would suggest , is to be found in the conception that teachers have of what it is to be a teacher and that , in turn , depends on what they believe about the way in which children learn . |
16 | As important as the planned content of teaching — the knowledge , skills and understandings of the National Curriculum — are the messages conveyed to children about their status as learners , about the value of the ideas and understandings they bring to teaching encounters , about the control they have over their own learning , about what it is to be a successful learner . |
17 | Somewhere deep down , your idea of what it is to be a person , to truly engage in the world , has become critically interfused with childish fantasy . |
18 | But this is artificially to restrict the sense of what it is to be a rational institution . |
19 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
20 | And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green . |
21 | Why are n't they closer to what it is to be an actor ? |
22 | What it is to be an individual subject fluctuates from ideology to ideology . |
23 | False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual . |
24 | Research might then be seen to be a mere luxury add-on , not an essential part of ‘ what it is to be an institution of higher education . |