Example sentences of "what it [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what it tastes of is n't it ? |
| 2 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 3 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 4 | The heated debates in Western Europe around the year 400 on the meaning of perfection had their roots in the uncertainty about what it meant to be a genuine Christian in a society of fashionable Christianity . |
| 5 | Carrying the banner of the nuclear industry , it was well aware of what it meant to be a target for the new generation of environmentalists . |
| 6 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 7 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 8 | Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 10 | He understood what it meant to be sixteen . |
| 11 | Whatever the merits of this argument , what it points to is the way in which the complexities of these tensions found their focus in the questions of sexuality . |
| 12 | Creators of film and documentaries sometimes drew upon stock shots , and the actual sequence shown is not always what it purports to be . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it continued to be critical of what it felt to be the excesses of some of TANU 's more extreme and strident members and officials . |
| 14 | In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect . |
| 15 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |
| 16 | To them it was what it seemed to be , a pleasant green meadow . |
| 17 | Last June Kingston upon Thames set up[ what it believed to be a unique new system for running the service . |
| 18 | The issue in Gallagher was not whether an appellant could raise a non-certified point but whether the House itself could depart from the certified question and address what it took to be the true question arising . |
| 19 | Despite his prolific output , author/illustrator Eric Carle has never lost touch with what it feels to be force-fed unsuitable books . |
| 20 | The most dangerous of all the spiders is the black widow , a small species that is common throughout America and which responds to vibrations of its web by rushing out and biting what it considers to be its next meal . |
| 21 | The Canadian position is that the board of directors , provided it is acting in what it considers to be the best interests of the company , must have the discretion to take defensive measures against an imminent take-over . |
| 22 | Later this year , OFWAT will publish guidelines to the water companies on what it considers to be the best methods . |
| 23 | It has attempted to be very explicit about what it considers to be unnecessary local expenditure . |
| 24 | The second is the position apparently preferred by the police itself : where it is not subject to the whims of party politics and can develop what it considers to be the best safeguard for the community — the professionalization of the police force , in other words , it wants to be regarded as a profession and , like the medical and legal professions , to be left to do its job according to its own discretion . |
| 25 | Worried that his brother might be close to a nervous collapse , he refrained from spelling it out bluntly , but what it amounted to was this : Do n't kick the bourgeois while they are still feeding you . |
| 26 | He used a lot of abstruse terms like " cricoid " but what it amounted to was that she had been strangled . |
| 27 | What it looked like was a long-deserted log farmhouse , with stale rush matting on the floor and at the windows coarse-woven net curtains that had faded almost to nothing . |
| 28 | What it relates to is the specific historical reconstruction it . |
| 29 | That what it relates to is , if you subcontract certain items like , exactly the same way as your ordinary one one line in whichever procedure deals with checking . |
| 30 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |