Example sentences of "what [be] [verb] [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Rosen understands that rhythm makes language memorable for children , and what 's remembered can be possessed and loved . |
| 2 | Much of what is said would be true also ( in a modified form ) for small-number natural oligopolies , but I shall not examine such questions here . |
| 3 | With writing , at least , they believe , what is said can be taken to be what is meant . |
| 4 | However , there is no general requirement to disclose information about a property , it only states what is said must be true . |
| 5 | The jobs noticeboard is the first of what is hoped will be many scattered around villages in England 's heartland . |
| 6 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 7 | For what is displayed can be checked by others , and , if possible , reproduced by them . |
| 8 | What is observed will be related to wider regional and national trends in urban America at a more general level , and to the process of economics , social and political change within the specific cities under investigation . |
| 9 | In an economic system coordinated solely by markets there is no guarantee that what is produced can be sold . |
| 10 | In strategic terms the England manager , who does not have a Gerson or Pele to bail his team out of the trouble caused by such indiscretions , was right , but if you drive the idiosyncrasies out of football altogether what is left can be grey indeed , which is what one finds a little disconcerting about the present Brazilian side . |
| 11 | The law therefore does not confer an explicit right of protest but it circumscribes our freedom to do so , and what is left can be enjoyed . |
| 12 | The protection of what is left must be regarded as a priority . |
| 13 | Now plans have emerged for what is thought could be the first British private medical village . |
| 14 | Exactly what is shown can be any of the last time and date the file was saved , the summary information , the file statistics , or the contents . |
| 15 | Such an expressed intention puts the book into the ‘ holistic ’ category and might alarm many scientists that what is to follow might be some kind of woolly metaphysical vagueness . |
| 16 | If we do not know about something or do not realise what is addressed can be understood in another manner or seen through another lens , it skews our viewpoint ; it limits our options ; it clouds our perspective . |
| 17 | To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken . |
| 18 | These figures are collected continuously , and at any particular moment details of what is happening can be worked out . |
| 19 | While expressing relief that what is emerging could be worse , it is not the promised land ; it is just about approaching the standard of some of the good practice which preceded it . |
| 20 | Idealisation of past relationships may reflect unsatisfied longings ; what is reported may be how old people would like it to have been . |
| 21 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |
| 22 | No radical reform was undertaken of what should be taught , or how what was taught should be valued . |
| 23 | ‘ Personal politics ’ was the buzzword : the acknowledgement of the ‘ dark side ’ was always grounded in progressive humanism , the belief that what was twisted could be straightened out , that the shadows could be banished by the spotlight of analysis . |
| 24 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note that legislation was required , because , as said above , mid-nineteenth-century reformers thought that most of what was needed could be achieved by formalising the relationship by means of a lease . |