Example sentences of "[that] what [pers pn] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In antiquity no insignia such as cup or Bible were handed to the person ordained , and the clergy did not initially wear special vestments ; they were simply instructed to see that what they wore was ‘ wholly clean ’ . |
| 2 | Her temper was caused by the fact that she had a terrible suspicion that what they said was true . |
| 3 | They conceived that what they represented was accurate : Henry V as a play genuinely celebrating the national character , the Elizabethans were imagined as believing in a stable world order . |
| 4 | They 're amazed that what they thought was a quiet little Swedish story appears round the world the next day , ’ says Mr McGovern . |
| 5 | We will introduce legislation designed to give consumers confidence that what they purchase is properly described — and that adequate compensation is offered where these requirements are not met . |
| 6 | All over the world ordinary people are marching , demonstrating , making their voices heard , letting the people in power know that what they want is a peaceful world for themselves and their children . |
| 7 | His spies had plotted their course all the way , sending back word by a chain of messengers , until now they knew numbers and names , and were well aware that what they awaited was a national army , glittering with noble pedigrees , not all of them Scottish . |
| 8 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 9 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |
| 10 | The buyers in this particular market were very clear that what they wanted was a small loan , for a fixed amount , over a short period , paid weekly to a collector . |
| 11 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 12 | A trade union education that is — as some have rightly advocated — open to members as well as representatives , broad-based and educational rather than narrow and role-specific , continuing and recurrent rather than ad hoc and disparate , will itself produce limited and ephemeral results unless working people can see that what they learn is also practised in their own organisations . |
| 13 | In other words , different pupils will follow different curricula so that what they learn is ‘ appropriate to their individual levels of ability ’ . |
| 14 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |
| 15 | Rather than merely assert that what we desire is already reality , therefore , I would argue that our job is to discuss the contradictions and possibilities in the law as it has developed historically , as part of and in response to political and economic struggles . |
| 16 | But at times it 's been hard to ignore that sinking feeling that what we 've been witnessing is another case of gradual rock'n'roll suicide , that what we 're about to experience is the possible self-destruction of not just one individual but a whole band . |
| 17 | It may seem odd that what we heard was such a revelation . |
| 18 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 19 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 20 | The New Theory of Vision explicitly teaches that what we see is not what we touch , and exists only in the mind , not in an external space . |
| 21 | We all mess about when we think that what we have been asked to do is silly or pointless . |
| 22 | We made it clear that what we wanted was a better social security system and not just a cheaper one . |
| 23 | But it may be that what we do is is as you say that we Does that guidance thing give general broad headings ? |
| 24 | And thirdly , it has a very real er value in that , in going for er certification , we are actually putting checks and procedures in place which will help to ensure that what we do is the right price , is to the right time and is the right product . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe that what we do is morally positive in that it is keeping people alive . ’ |
| 26 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 27 | So that what we did was , first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps , what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er , and then we 'll go through the others . |
| 28 | Er I ca n't , you know , there seems to be an inconsistency in so many people who are against national wars but er would say that what we need is a revolutionary situation in order to change things for the better within society . |
| 29 | ‘ John Dyson , ’ the chairman was saying , ‘ do you , as a journalist , agree with the suggestion that what we need is for the press to take a firm moral lead and play down all news to do with race relations ? ’ |
| 30 | Yes , I think it 's totally clear that what we need is a short message , and it 's a white paper , and therefore it 's inviting a message , so what we really need is a short message to go with the A B C and the government act on the two S P's and I would give an undertaking at this point that it will go under the chief environmental health officers ' name . |