Example sentences of "they be [conj] what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh what action they are and what what 's that ? |
| 2 | Look at what they are and what we are . |
| 3 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 4 | Pride is a state in which people seek attention and recognition for what they think they are and what they think they have done . |
| 5 | Few people understand exactly what they are and what they can do and quite a few people have mistaken impressions from the media . |
| 6 | Huntley , a burly 51-yearold , has created a constant reminder of who they are and what they want in the form of glossy profiles , complete with pictures , inserted beneath a glass plate on the leather topped table in his office . |
| 7 | Such an object is not so very different from a table or a cow , concerning which I can have similar information of where they are and what they are doing . |
| 8 | It 's worth knowing who they are and what they do . |
| 9 | Whether or not you think you 'll ever need to use their services ( see Chapter 21 on where to go for advice and help ) , it 's important to get to know who they are and what they do . |
| 10 | Well I work as a psychotherapist and it seems to me that for some people change is impossible and when that is the case then its my job to help them to come to terms with who they are and what they are and how there going to remain , but the other side of it is helping people to change and I have to say usually its to loose weight , that 's the biggest reason people want to change . |
| 11 | All right then tell us who they are and what they do . |
| 12 | The beliefs and ideas that organisations hold about who they are and what they are trying to do and what their environment is like have a much greater tendency to realise themselves than is usually believed . |
| 13 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 14 | No , you do n't put in who they are or what they are , you just say , where it come , originates from and erm what their job was . |
| 15 | Hence this type of learning could not be achieved by mere transient modulation of transmitter release ; new proteins were being made , and it was necessary to discover which they were and what their cellular functions were . |
| 16 | Francis Morgan stood and stared at them , and even before the man stepped forward steadily , hand extended , mouth opening to speak , he understood who they were and what they had come to tell him . |
| 17 | So I found out who they were and what they were . |
| 18 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |