Example sentences of "[adv] what it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Shields fishing industry , life in which is interestingly and sympathetically described in Beter Mortimore 's ( 1987 ) The Last of The Hunters , is now pretty much what it was in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 2 | He wanted to know so very much what it was like . |
| 3 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 4 | I ca n't see your face when you sit in that comer , ’ said Bella. ‘ — You thought the world of that Simon , did n't you ? — I know just what it 's like . |
| 5 | And it 's quite interesting to , to go and look at that road now and see just what it 's like . |
| 6 | It is nevertheless of interest to see from their reaction to the various issues raised in the questionnaire , just what it is about the scheme ( and about SSE generally ) , which they feel is threatening . |
| 7 | Laba was quite a celebrity in the village , and from him we learnt just what it is like to be embraced by a really big snake . |
| 8 | Firstly notice that replacing by its inverse in equation ( 12.2 ) or ( 12.23 ) converts the modelled pass approximation from low pass to high pass while maintaining the cut-off pulsatance at C and the dependence of transmission on just what it was on ο . |
| 9 | If you can imagine your front room full of concrete , erm , one minute your sat there watching the telly , the next minute your front room 's full of concrete , that is just what it was like . |
| 10 | But even by Stella 's reckoning there are a lot of people who know exactly what it is like to be out of work and with little hope of finding a job . |
| 11 | He knows exactly what it 's like to have to keep an eye open in every dark , steamy nook and cranny for cancer squatters . |
| 12 | Designed by women who know exactly what it 's like to be pregnant . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , I was so delighted to celebrate the mere existence of this euphoria that , as a reader pointed out , I made no attempt to analyze exactly what it was about the theme parks that had produced it . |
| 14 | A bustling market , dark , smokey houses and a busy wharf have all been re-created in accurate detail so that you can experience in sight , sound and smell exactly what it was like to live and work in the Viking city of Jorvik . |
| 15 | In the first place I do not know exactly what it was like in all its details . |
| 16 | I can remember exactly what it was like . |
| 17 | It is difficult to define accurately what it was like for , although it still exists , it has been damaged , altered and restored so the original design has been obscured . |
| 18 | Right so I wo n't draw a graph , but we 'll see if we can work out a sketch of a graph , roughly what it 's like . |
| 19 | They wanted to know what it roughly what it was for |
| 20 | ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more . |
| 21 | For Paul Arkwright , recipient of honorary degrees , had known very well what it was like to be a student , and poor . |
| 22 | It 's dearer in here what it is in Toys R Us . |
| 23 | The first time the boss interrupts you , you write down , er boss , on the appropriate column and then what it was about , and the elapsed time , and all the rest of it . |
| 24 | But I do n't see any reason why our that we should n't have the ability , as a man to making management decisions , that makes the productivity and cost profile achievable of at least what it was before Christmas . |
| 25 | Petrol consumption was high , with the price often twice what it was at home . |
| 26 | In 1983 , the swing away from Labour in rural and mixed areas was twice what it was in urban areas : not one rural constituency in the South of England was won by Labour . |
| 27 | In urban areas , the swing against Labour was half what it was in rural and mixed areas . |