Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | were getting the money what it was worth . |
| 2 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 3 | But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning . |
| 4 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 5 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 6 | But , as Ronnie Convery found out , within the Church itself he 's under fire from some liberal Catholics who say he 's turning the clock back . |
| 7 | Lambeth has no idea in the world what it 's like for people like us . |
| 8 | It is no good forcing every kind of ability into one form of education if the result is going to lower the standard which it is in the interests of the country to maintain . ’ |
| 9 | Whether they talk to you or to someone else may depend on the kind of relationship you have with them , as well as the stage which they are at . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to show the reader what it was like to be me . |