Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jip and Zab 's father claims that computer logic , unlike human logic , ‘ ca n't cope with a word used in a figurative sense , or with humour , which depends on wordplay , which is like assigning two values to a character ’ ( 87 ) . |
| 32 | Second , he has a rare and profound understanding of how to relate the exigencies of budgets to the exigencies of opera production ( which is like relating fire to water ) . |
| 33 | Neutrinos are hard to detect : they interact so little with matter that they can probably float through entire galaxies without being affected ; they exist but have no mass nor any other physical property , which is like saying that they simultaneously exist and do not exist . |
| 34 | Worse , if you have an astute sub-editor , or even a conscious one , he/she has a tendency to write all over your nice clean copy with a felt-tip , which is like having people tread on your geraniums . |
| 35 | But perhaps their greatest weakness is that they are heavily dependent on trust , a commodity which is in diminishing supply these days . |
| 36 | He claimed he had acted to protect US lives ; to defend the Panama Canal ( control of which was to passed over to Panama on January 1 , 1990 — eleven days before the invasion ) ; to ‘ restore democracy ’ to Panama ; and to stop drug trafficking and bring Noriega to justice . |
| 37 | He knew the answers to his questions very well ; all too many men were relegated to the position of drone — and they resented it ; they showed their resentment all too often by despising women and taking the attitude that such inept creatures should be allowed to play while men ran the world and did anything in it which was worth doing . |
| 38 | We weakened the signal in several ways , one of which was by damaging the cells of the polarizing region with high doses of X-rays before grafting it to the anterior margin . |
| 39 | This used to be a wonderful scree running down to Mosedale , which was like gliding down an escalator . |
| 40 | She 'd have to give this … person … something or it would spoil Sam 's holiday — which was like saying it would spoil his entire year . |
| 41 | She grew up with eight brothers , ’ which was like having nine fathers really , including my real father They were so bossy ’ . |
| 42 | Pat Petrie suggests parents should decide what 's worth disagreeing about . |
| 43 | Teatime is a bright , bold affair now , so here 's our selection of what 's worth buying . |
| 44 | Erm , what 's worth reading about that , and it comes out strongly in the introduction , is that this is a kind of case stu study of a particular kind of person . |
| 45 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
| 46 | Here we offer a guide to what is worth pushing your way to the front of the crowd for . |
| 47 | Flames flicker as they set light to the rubbish — not to reduce it to ashes but to see what is worth collecting . |
| 48 | Success seldom teaches what is worth knowing . ’ |
| 49 | An information board for each entrance should also be provided , so that visitors can be given topical information — what is going on , what is worth seeing at any given time — as well as permanent information on the Garden itself . |
| 50 | What is worth remembering , though , is that once you have got the idea , that is by no means the end of the story . |
| 51 | What is worth considering is whether it could be of help if ‘ things were improved ’ . |
| 52 | It attempts to define not only what needs changing in East Germany but also what is worth retaining . |
| 53 | Later , he would complain irritably about his silver-spooned Tory colleagues : ‘ These people have no idea what is like to run out of money at the end of the week . ’ |
| 54 | Using Pope 's ‘ Mobil Guide to the North Island ’ we were able to look up what was worth seeing in each of the towns we passed through . |