Example sentences of "about what [pers pn] be [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I felt a combination of unattractive and anonymous and I felt that the way to play that part was to forget about what he was and to think about what he wanted .
2 Talking in Leicester this week and last week to groups of black women , some black women are saying I have never thought before about being able to talk about what I am and making up my own mind .
3 All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things .
4 The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want .
5 Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain .
6 But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook .
7 Every definition of it can be swiftly undermined , so there 's inevitable uncertainty about what it is that we should be celebrating .
8 It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are
9 Erm , could I ask you to just share with us briefly , er , not in great detail , but , just a few words about what it is that you want to influence somebody about .
10 so you 're very clear about what it is that you want
11 when you 're clear about what it is that you want you can be assertive
12 We talked about it being clear , being clear about what it is that you want .
13 Okay what I ask you to do as with being assertive , first of all be clear about what it is that you 're going to try and do , be clear about what it is and what the situation is , explain it to the partner and then try it and let's see how it doing .
14 Okay what I ask you to do as with being assertive , first of all be clear about what it is that you 're going to try and do , be clear about what it is and what the situation is , explain it to the partner and then try it and let's see how it doing .
15 When boys do get around to talking among themselves about what it was like they are more likely to lie .
16 But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives .
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