Example sentences of "what [pron] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I ca n't turn over The Times so that the pages lie flat , I ca n't fold up a map in the right creases , I ca n't draw corks , I ca n't drive in nails straight , I ca n't go into a bar and order a drink without wondering what everyone 's thinking about it , and I ca n't strike matches towards myself . |
| 2 | All the patients ’ files are kept under lock and key in his office , so I only see what I am asked to type . ’ |
| 3 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |
| 4 | The list is longer , but what I am getting at is that it is going to be extremely expensive to cut down this pollution . |
| 5 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 6 | Let me try to explain what I am getting at . |
| 7 | ‘ I know what I am getting into . |
| 8 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 9 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 10 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 11 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 12 | I believe you are exactly what I am looking for . |
| 13 | He left when he was eighteen , presumably with the cry so often heard from those who look for instant wisdom in courses designed primarily to foster skills by which such discrimination may be attained : " the course can not give me what I am looking for " . |
| 14 | I do n't know what I am looking for , and I do n't find it . |
| 15 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 16 | I return to work on the spot with insights into what I am looking at and a clearer sense of intention . |
| 17 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 18 | Now tell me what I am to do with you . |
| 19 | That is what I am escaping from , that is the alternative . |
| 20 | What I am referring to is elementary structural-functionalist sociology , in which modernization is seen as a process of structural differentiation ( Ausdifferenzierung ) . |
| 21 | ‘ As for me , I must write what I am owed in my book and then I too will go to bed . |
| 22 | ‘ Say , ’ he said , ‘ you 'd better tell me more precisely about what I am to wear to this ball . |
| 23 | The disgust which inheres in desire is not , as the Freudian analysis might suggest , necessarily generated by or focused upon the repressed constituent of the self ; it may be , but what I am pointing to here is an additional structural interdependence of desire and disgust . |
| 24 | What I am aiming against is the indistinct mutter ; it is not a question of regional idiom , which is often charming . |
| 25 | What I am putting before the House are serious considerations about the balance between the rights of individuals , which may be damaged in the course of a case but where the record can subsequently be put straight , the rights of those who are before the courts , accused , to deploy their defence , and the rights of the public at large to scrutinise that process . |
| 26 | What I am arguing in favour of is simple , cheap solutions , where this is possible . |
| 27 | The dreadfulness of what I am doing to her , what I am going to do to her makes me feel ill . |
| 28 | It is bigger than what I am doing to me … |
| 29 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 30 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |