Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the key to explaining to people doing any particular project , are which procedures is the quality plan . |
| 2 | To think that he , a mere footie fan whose main worry used to be which trainers to don for the teen-mag centrespread , should bravely take on lyrical biggies like politics , passion , life , death , apathy , religion , hope , irony and despair . |
| 3 | I mean it might be whatever year |
| 4 | If a drawing description file refers to ‘ COLOUR 1 ’ , the actual colour will be whatever colour 1 is set to . |
| 5 | The objective would be whatever end result is desired from the activity of discussing XY and Z. It might be to have decided something , planned something , agreed something , or merely to have discovered people 's points of view about something . |
| 6 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 7 | The reader 's question of a book or an article should be what function the writing is able or unable to perform ? |
| 8 | The term can mean " noble " , and " generous " , and no doubt in realistic terms this should be what Margery wishes to say of herself . |
| 9 | When you 're ready what would be what things will we shall we start with ? |
| 10 | Could that be what Mahon was ? |
| 11 | In short , there has to be no room for misunderstanding ; there must be what lawyers call consensus ad idem or a meeting of minds . |
| 12 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 13 | If yes it would be what date , thirty one twelve ? |
| 14 | That had to be what Rose had seen . |
| 15 | Even what appears to be what Adam Smith called an " offensive " combination — one which " without any provocation … combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labour " — may turn out to have been workers taking advantage of a temporary shift in the labour market to restore previously enjoyed conditions of employment . |
| 16 | But the look of dislike , which Alice was afraid might be what Roberta did feel for her , was replaced with Roberta 's more amiable look , and she sat up , feeling for cigarettes . |
| 17 | It may not be what Ferranti wants to hear . |
| 18 | It may not be what Ferranti wants to hear . |
| 19 | The initial problem seemed to be what part of my anatomy to visualize . |
| 20 | There , walking down the middle of the shed in the gloom , I espied a dark blue-clad figure wearing what appeared to be what Dad used to call a ‘ steamraiser , , a shiny topped peaked cap . |
| 21 | John 's nine-hole Derryboye Road lay-out may not be what championship courses are made of , but they do n't come any prettier or more golfer friendly . |
| 22 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 23 | In effect , this appears to be what Nolan and Tucker are proposing in the quotation given on page 231 , and in : |
| 24 | That must be what Jemima is , a British bi-coloured short hair , must n't she ? |
| 25 | The poets , mankind 's unacknowledged legislators , have shown death to be what Anne Lindbergh , after the murder of her kidnapped child , saw as a little door . |
| 26 | They must be what Robert Boyle later called ‘ secondary ’ qualities . |
| 27 | Cos when you , when you get to the stage that you 're at now basically , that it 's not that difficult be what sort of extra money to find |
| 28 | One issue will be what interest is to be payable on the retention monies . |
| 29 | The latter may be what Robertson ( 1984 ) calls northern marram grass dune pasture . |
| 30 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |