Example sentences of "of who [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When adolescence hits us , feelings about ourselves are at their most intense , bound up so much with identity , a sense of who we are and who we might be . |
| 2 | ‘ My greatest hope is that we shall gain a deeper knowledge of who we are and how we are related to the Universe , and that this knowledge will further the evolutionary progression of our collective consciousness . ’ |
| 3 | Elaine , a 16-year-old girl who has spent most of her life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro , in Brazil , puts it better : ‘ I dream of a better world , a world where children and adults are no longer abandoned , tortured and murdered because of who we are or what we do … |
| 4 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 5 | We are interested in the relationship between studying a subject , and students ' sense of identity : the way in which the beliefs we hold about an academic discipline affect our sense of who we are . |
| 6 | ‘ We want to make sure that UK handling agents , Scottish hotels and in particular coach operators are aware of who we are and what we have to offer their clients . ’ |
| 7 | As one sister put it , ‘ our office needed to be an expression of who we were ’ . |
| 8 | Erm yeah , we had a nodding acquaintance with quite a few of them , and I think they they were aware of who we were . |
| 9 | regardless of who they 're seen by , that 's hard data . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Blindness can strike anyone at any time , regardless of who they are or where they live . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that , even when the person concerned has changed age , appearance and even sex , the patient undergoing the regression is none the less perfectly aware of who they are . |
| 13 | Certain organizations have the power to object to the grant of an O licence and it is important for the haulier seeking a licence to be aware of who they are : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But by being ashamed of who they are , they 're making it harder for other people to accept them . ’ |
| 16 | Says Jim Cummins : ‘ Kids who are proud of who they are and who have no ambivalence about that have no problems in school ’ . |
| 17 | Children are not only encouraged to be proud of who they are , but to discuss any differences . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | I think it would affect their marriages , their inter-personal relationships , their co-habitations , the way that they deal with people at work , their sense of who they are in the world and how far they can go in the world , and I think that 's what makes the problem so serious because it has very , very long-reaching effects . |
| 20 | We 're dealing with fear , we 're dealing with a sense of vulnerability and impotence and how do you teach grown ups to deal with those issues , because a lot of them erm the for a lot of them these kinds of questions go to the very centre of who they are , their self image . |
| 21 | They 're sense of self is such that they do n't see that they have a self to assert , perhaps , or that they are not valid enough as a person , which obviously must stem erm from their early childhood experiences , and from the adults that surrounded them when they were growing and developing that sense of who they are . |
| 22 | But what do you mean by ‘ their sense of who they are is not valid enough ’ ? |
| 23 | Is it to avoid confusion with other films of the same name or is it to give hapless viewers an idea of who they were dating , or supposed to be dating , at the time ? |
| 24 | By studying the material on trustees in these enrolments for selected districts of Lincolnshire it is hoped to build up a picture of who they were , the ways in which they changed in the period of the study as well as any specific characteristics of the trustees of different denominations . |
| 25 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 26 | Susie had been secretive partly because of who she was — a different woman might have confronted him openly — but partly because he had driven her to it . |
| 27 | Juliet sat on her bed , wondering how she could get hold of the tissue-typing results — if they 'd come — without anyone being aware of who she was . |
| 28 | All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going . |
| 29 | Tomorrow , she assured herself , as she brushed her teeth , she would wake up with total recall of who she was and where she came from . |
| 30 | I can be certain of who I am , no matter what happens in the world around me . ’ |