Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 32 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 33 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 34 | As someone who came from a happy , steady home , she might be able to offer help in some small way to some of these disadvantaged youngsters , a few of whom hardly know what it is to be loved at all . |
| 35 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
| 36 | My argument is that ideology is also a moral system , and that moral values must be directly related to ideas of human nature : what it is to be a person . |
| 37 | British realism is distinctive not in being realistic but in being exportable , embarrassment and all ; and it is hard to resist the conclusion that the world buys it , including the American and Soviet worlds , because it is curious about what it is to be British . |
| 38 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
| 39 | The question that McDowell is pointing to , however , is whether , in the analysis of human communication , Grice 's contribution concerns more what it is to be human than what it is to communicate . |
| 40 | What it is to be an individual subject fluctuates from ideology to ideology . |
| 41 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
| 42 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 43 | What needs to be emphasised , though , is that direct experience — becoming part of a way of life that includes the alien in a wider definition of what it is to be human — seems to be almost the only way of achieving demystification . |
| 44 | This widening definition of what it is to be human , couched in sociologically aware terms , runs throughout the responses , and is further expressed in attitudes to amniocentesis and abortion in subsequent pregnancies . |
| 45 | No longer a matter of distribution across a norm , of statistics and probability , ‘ normality ’ itself is simply a common-sense , inclusive definition of what it is to be human , with wider boundaries redefined from experience . |
| 46 | Lévi-Strauss ' point here , however , is simply the objection that Sartre defines ‘ man ’ in advance , predetermined by the particular experience of what it is to be a man in twentieth-century post-war French society . |
| 47 | Of course , what it is to ‘ be a pupil ’ is in some ways just what is at issue all along . |
| 48 | The most striking feature of pupil descriptions of what it is to be a good teacher is the great emphasis placed on interpersonal respect . |
| 49 | False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual . |
| 50 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 51 | But part , I would suggest , is to be found in the conception that teachers have of what it is to be a teacher and that , in turn , depends on what they believe about the way in which children learn . |
| 52 | inadequately educated persons er , view of what it is to be well educated i.e. we 've got to comment on the spelling as if it were important |
| 53 | As important as the planned content of teaching — the knowledge , skills and understandings of the National Curriculum — are the messages conveyed to children about their status as learners , about the value of the ideas and understandings they bring to teaching encounters , about the control they have over their own learning , about what it is to be a successful learner . |
| 54 | In the twilight groves and dusty caves there is no sign of what it is to be alive : nothing of love , valour or artistry . |
| 55 | Somewhere deep down , your idea of what it is to be a person , to truly engage in the world , has become critically interfused with childish fantasy . |
| 56 | Well the feeling is a erm a great lack of understanding of what it is to actually live erm in poverty . |
| 57 | But this is artificially to restrict the sense of what it is to be a rational institution . |
| 58 | Research might then be seen to be a mere luxury add-on , not an essential part of ‘ what it is to be an institution of higher education . |
| 59 | It is we , the spectators , who are expected to again experience what it is to be one nation , all pulling together . |
| 60 | What it is to be well travelled ! ’ |