Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butterfield , who presumably was Hope 's choice , designed the building in 1849 . |
| 2 | Jesus challenged the Jews of his day with a searching question : ‘ How can you have faith so long as you receive honour from one another , and care nothing for the honour that comes from him who alone is God ? ’ |
| 3 | It is not too awful to be confronted with people cleverer than oneself ( in science journalism it happens quite a lot ) but it is intolerable to share the world with people who apparently are party to bodies of knowledge and ways of thinking that make all one 's own ideas seem petty . |
| 4 | But who exactly was Thomas ? |
| 5 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 6 | If 2 carriers have children , there 's a one in 4 chance their child will have normal blood cells , a one in 2 chance they 'll have children who also be carriers anda one in 4 chance of them having a sickle cell sufferer . |
| 7 | My new agent , Anne Hutton , who coincidentally was Joyce Grenfell 's agent , is a good partner and we intend to be very very happy together . |
| 8 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 9 | He lies beside the collapsed body , crying , ‘ Who else must be let blood , who else is rank . ’ |
| 10 | These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it . |
| 11 | The second surveyed 1,500 individuals of whom half were participants in the old Job Training Scheme and the rest were a matched sample by a broad set of labour market characteristics . |