Example sentences of "[verb] what [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor has won the gratitude of many small businessmen for shouting what many have been whispering . |
| 2 | She remembered vividly the sight of him crying in the car that night , and she still did n't understand what that had been about . |
| 3 | And would n't it be ironic if John Smith , after much agonising about Labour 's soul and purpose , bit the bullet , and , abandoning what many say was the reason for failure last time , promised not to put up taxes — and nobody believed him . |
| 4 | The implications of this approach for advertising personnel are considerable , and the best way to grasp what this means is to examine who works in advertising , and so begin to understand the hierarchy or power structures . |
| 5 | There is also a growing need to measure what many think is immeasurable — our consumption of natural resources — and to help evaluate the extent to which business activities are truly sustainable . |
| 6 | I think what that means is you ca n't get past Helen unless you do fill that in critiques . |
| 7 | To come to terms with the maelstrom of feelings aroused would mean accepting what most have been taught are ‘ wrong ’ feelings for a ‘ nice ’ person to have . |
| 8 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 9 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 10 | The best way to show what this involves is by examples . |