Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 61 | Until you have known it you will have no conception of what it is to be truly lonely . |
| 62 | I do n't wish to know what it is to be mortal , thanks . |
| 63 | I know what it is to be cursed with that temper . ’ |
| 64 | My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen , South ( Mr. Doran ) and other colleagues know what it is to which I refer . |
| 65 | And this is what we should be examining what it is to so perceive them . |
| 66 | We may find the latter is the more elusive and the more central question , which opens out into what it is to like and to love , what it is to be content , and what it is to be happy . |
| 67 | We may find the latter is the more elusive and the more central question , which opens out into what it is to like and to love , what it is to be content , and what it is to be happy . |
| 68 | It is right that water should be improved locally on the basis of what it is to be used for … |
| 69 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 70 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 71 | Brought up in Vienna when anti-semitism was rife , Peter Hugh Granby ( Peter Hugo Guensburger ) knew what it was to be self-reliant : |
| 72 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
| 73 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |
| 74 | Even more so now : now that she knew just a little , a very little , of what it was to be persecuted … . |
| 75 | Knowing what it was to be in a universe . |
| 76 | I never know what it was to , not do anything , go , go to the doctor 's and be bad or anything like that . |
| 77 | In any case she did not know what it was to be and took refuge in the business of drawing the cups and the teapot towards her . |
| 78 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 79 | She nurtured an artistic , creative ego and vision according to the ready models of what it was to be a ‘ Great Artist ’ . |