Example sentences of "be what [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A court can only make a care or supervision order if satisfied : ( a ) that the child concerned is suffering , or is likely to suffer significant harm ; and ( b ) that the harm , or likelihood of harm is attributable to : ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; or ( ii ) the child being beyond parental control ( s31 ) . |
| 32 | Er and they were what we would call medium to heavy type of er engineering . |
| 33 | erm Some were what we would call nowadays newsreels . |
| 34 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 35 | Certain aspects of word-meaning , however , are difficult to reconcile with this view : particularly awkward are what we shall term sense-spectra . |
| 36 | experiment are what we might think of as optional inferences . |
| 37 | Often they are what we would call eye-witness accounts . |
| 38 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 39 | How , with respect to what , and for and against whom they use that power are what we should be investigating . |
| 40 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 41 | Er I I think my honourable friend , if I followed him er is confusing two things , er because erm er what we , he was beginning by talking about er are what we will come to in the regulations er which is the right of citizens of other er member countries to vote in the country of which they 're not a citizen to vote . |
| 42 | Some , at least , of the graptolitic black shales are what we can recognize , with the hindsight of plate tectonic theory , as the deposits laid down of the edge of the continental shelf , in a truly oceanic environment . |
| 43 | They have to be concerned with inputs , because inputs are what they can control . |
| 44 | If they are what one might call the ‘ young ’ elderly , who are still keeping afloat very happily in the mainstream of life and enjoying their independence , the problems are few . |
| 45 | All in all , these , along with the changes in numbers and size of dendritic spines , are what one might expect if , when the chick pecks the bead and learns the association between the pecking and the bitter taste , there is a synaptic reorganization in IMHV and LPO to code for — or represent — this new association and the resulting change in behaviour — that is , to say ‘ do n't peck ’ instead of ‘ do peck ’ when the chick sees the bead a second time . |
| 46 | The pool-liners which fall into the next category are what one might call in the medium-price range and represent good value for the average newcomer to water gardening . |
| 47 | These are what I may term " the gentle rain from heaven " concept on the one hand , and " the moving finger writes " concept on the other . |
| 48 | ‘ The demands are what I would have expected , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said steadily . |
| 49 | This combination was so successful that one dealer exclaimed indignantly ‘ These prices are what I would charge myself . ’ |
| 50 | Now I want to suggest that what makes the difference — what transmutes overload and pressure into full-blown stress — are what I shall call injunctions . |
| 51 | But those are what I used to make the wire shapes . |
| 52 | ‘ Diggers , , ploughers , male and female , they are what I must draw continually . |
| 53 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 54 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 55 | As Dinko Krajin , a policeman from Krusevo said this week , ‘ We , Hercegovinians , are what you might call radical Croats . |
| 56 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 57 | James Bruxner , chairman of the SWA , said : ‘ We are what you might call pleasantly welcoming . |
| 58 | If duties are what you must or should do , wishes are what you want to do . |
| 59 | The questions you then have to tackle are what you can use it for and , even more important , what you should use it for . |
| 60 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |