Example sentences of "of what [pers pn] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 2 | Trainees do n't lose their entitlement to benefit and employers get a better idea of what they 're like . |
| 3 | Even in the most jealously guarded ‘ non-intervention zones ’ , the absence of big predators makes them a shadow of what they were in the past . |
| 4 | In between times , a whole psychological scenario is elaborated , in which we piece together the flavour of his anxiety about the pay , his disappointment at not getting the information out of the lady , his interpretation of what she is like ( inferred from her appearance , actions , and conversation ) , his assessment of her son , his misunderstanding of the son 's errand , and his recollection of how he came to be involved in the interview . |
| 5 | He 'd created a picture in his own mind of what she was like , and it was obvious nothing was going to alter that . |
| 6 | The Victorian worship of money was on the wax , and houses were an outward expression of what you were worth and how fashionable was your taste . |
| 7 | The new mortgage would pay most of what I am in arrears with him you see so , which would keep him happy . |
| 8 | So erm I still want to see more of what I was after . |
| 9 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ The game will give us a decent idea of what he is like . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've read all the cuttings on him in the Herald library but I have n't yet got much sense of what he 's like . ’ |
| 11 | Sidney was puzzled by Wycliffe 's new line of questioning , and Wycliffe himself had only a vague idea of what he was after . |
| 12 | I think that our description of what he was in effect saying , my Lord we were simply pointing out |
| 13 | The quality of our vision on a dark night must be far poorer than 5 per cent of what it is at midday . |
| 14 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 15 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
| 16 | Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view . |
| 17 | The concept of women 's standpoint also provides an interpretation of what it is for a theory to be comprehensive . |
| 18 | All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive . |
| 19 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 20 | Discussion of justification , of what it is for a belief to be justified , begins with this theory ; other theories will be described in terms of their relation to or divergence from this one . |
| 21 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
| 22 | In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means . |
| 23 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 24 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 25 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 26 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 27 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 28 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 29 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 30 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |