Example sentences of "[be] what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're what the rates get spent on , instead of education and drains . |
| 2 | Norman Jay is looking to discover ‘ the fine line between putting out records I like and hoping they 're what the public want . ’ |
| 3 | The Masculine Dilemma : Wanting to Be What the Other Is |
| 4 | The older man explains why : ‘ Take my word for it — homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is ’ ( p. 337 ) . |
| 5 | And when X says homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is , the other is now not the other ( opposite ) sex , but the same sex , and X , as avowed heterosexual , has described his desire to displace the male . |
| 6 | Last week 's ‘ new cruzados ’ , ravaged by inflation , are blocked and replaced by cruzeiros ( which happens to be what the currency was called up till 1986 ) . |
| 7 | The immediate effect should be a deep recession ; that must be what the government intended . |
| 8 | And thus the practical was gradually and increasingly held to be what the ‘ no-hopers ’ engaged in . |
| 9 | This must be what the inspector meant by ‘ something to hide ’ . |
| 10 | That used to be what the EC was dedicated to as well . |
| 11 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 12 | Once posited , to be what the colour-word is the name of , this ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ sensation ’ becomes an element , in our thought about these matters , of which it is almost impossible to rid ourselves . |
| 13 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |
| 14 | The meaning of a statement seems to be roughly what the speaker should have meant by it and this must in most cases be what the speaker does mean by it . |
| 15 | Almost , the setting , the milieu , here will be what the book is about . |
| 16 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 17 | ‘ Fit leadership , ’ he repeated as though the word ‘ fit ’ might not just be what the Medical Officer looked for . |
| 18 | That may be what the House will accept , but let the House be fully aware of the nature of the decision . |
| 19 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 20 | The true moral of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a moral of character and attitude not of precept ; and appropriately the Host responds by commenting on the Nun 's Priest as a character who has proved to be what the Monk has turned out not to be . |
| 21 | I think there , there was a genuine democratic element to this that , that it , i i i it was n't going to be forcible socialism , it was going to be socialism which would come naturally because that would be what the population wanted . |
| 22 | ‘ This must be what the Garden of Eden was like , ’ Juliet said in a hushed voice . |
| 23 | It might not be what the average first-time buyer had in mind , but the latest property to go in the window at Hobbs and Chambers estate agents is sure to catch the eye of passers-by . |
| 24 | On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh 's affairs — which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted — then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared . |
| 25 | So Bernard really needs to be what the company has in mind . |
| 26 | They do n't want to be what the presenters do n't want is somebody to be pressing the button , hopping from channel to channel . |
| 27 | What is certain is that the results of the Italian war of 1859 , though wildly popular in France , were far from being what the Emperor desired . |
| 28 | The regional nomarch , or prefect , tells each local office how much it ought to collect in the year ( the national total being what the government reckons the budget needs ) . |
| 29 | More often the mothers of these large families were being what the survey described as " good " or " bad " managers , trying to hold things together . |
| 30 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 . |