Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [Wh det] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 2 | This sounds well on the B flat instrument , but must have been even more thrilling on the F trumpet for which it was written . |
| 3 | This sort of evidence should be carefully examined for what it is worth . |
| 4 | The legal model 's attempt to equate corporate managers with ordinary entrepreneurs acting so as to maximize the profits of the company should be recognized for what it is — a failure . |
| 5 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 6 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 7 | Suddenly , the economic miracle of the past decade began to be recognized for what it was . |
| 8 | But what it tells us is that in these twenty areas , management should try and think about what it is they can do to prevent problems . |
| 9 | On the street , the BNP looks like what it is : a bootboys ' party that mobilises within a small number of inner-city areas from those sections of disaffected white working-class male youth who otherwise engage in football violence and similar activities . |
| 10 | I 'll be here when you get back , the way I always am , and I 'll cooperate with whatever it is that 's so important to you . |
| 11 | It is one part only of an attack upon five great evils : upon the physical Want with which it is directly concerned , upon Disease which often causes Want and brings many other troubles in its train , upon Ignorance which no democracy can afford among its citizens , upon the Squalor which arises mainly through haphazard distribution of industry and population , and upon Idleness which destroys wealth and corrupts men , whether they are well-fed or not , when they are idle . ’ |
| 12 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 13 | In a climate where what is thought is less important than that it does not deviate from what it is ‘ correct ’ to think , the use of grids can illuminate the unique aspects of individual insight . |
| 14 | ‘ Something under a fifth of a teaspoonful — say four or five drops — added to which it is highly soluble . ’ |
| 15 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 16 | He told the Conservative local government conference : ’ In time I believe the community charge will come to be accepted for what it is ; simple , straightforward , and , above all fair . ’ |
| 17 | We had these two things , we had to try to get women involved so I had women fronting For What It 's Worth ( Penny Junor , Sally Hawkins ) . |
| 18 | My family has set some poor standards but I hope that the breakdown of three of my children 's marriages will be seen as what it is , an honest admission of failure and a hope that a happier future lies in separate lives . |
| 19 | It is thus the age of truth , the age when life is clearly seen for what it is and man knows his role in the totality of things . |
| 20 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 21 | In the early stages of a book I always write out two things : one , the plot , that is , the murder and how it happened and perhaps how eventually it will be seen for what it is ; two , the story ( which to make what I mean even clear to myself I generally label " The Storyline " ) , that is , in very rough outline what happens first and what happens next and next and next . |
| 22 | It should be seen for what it was , and especially by those who feel like regretting its erasure , and alleging that its replacement has made an environment which may be even worse — of tower blocks filled with heroin and despair . |
| 23 | To switch a vote which had been promised was a still rarer occurrence , and such conduct was seen for what it was , ungentlemanly and unacceptable in persons of the social rank of freeholder . |
| 24 | The Doctrine must be seen for what it was — a very political document which had been hastily cobbled together to try to fill the power vacuum caused by the Suez fiasco . |
| 25 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |
| 26 | going to ha have a listen to what it 's all about . |
| 27 | Most of the questions are going to be related to what it is , are there any jobs available , or what type of thing . |
| 28 | The same sentence is now seen to do different things , and according to what it is doing , the answer is more or less suitable : |
| 29 | McLean quotes Mueller 's definition , according to which it is ‘ the economic study of non-market decision-making ’ ( 1987 , p. 1 ) . |
| 30 | ( I would refer in this context to the case law of the court according to which it is the registered office of a company within the meaning of article 48 that serves as the connecting factor with the legal system of a particular state , like nationality in the case of natural persons : see Commission of the European Communities v. France ( Case 270/83 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 273 , 304 , para. 18 , and Segers v. Bestuur van de Bedrijfsvereniging voor Bank- en Verzekeringswezen , Groothandel en Vrije Beroepen ( Case 79/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 2375 , 2387 , para. 13 . ) |