Example sentences of "be what [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader 's question of a book or an article should be what function the writing is able or unable to perform ? |
| 2 | The term can mean " noble " , and " generous " , and no doubt in realistic terms this should be what Margery wishes to say of herself . |
| 3 | When you 're ready what would be what things will we shall we start with ? |
| 4 | Could that be what Mahon was ? |
| 5 | In short , there has to be no room for misunderstanding ; there must be what lawyers call consensus ad idem or a meeting of minds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If yes it would be what date , thirty one twelve ? |
| 8 | That had to be what Rose had seen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It may not be what Ferranti wants to hear . |
| 12 | It may not be what Ferranti wants to hear . |
| 13 | The initial problem seemed to be what part of my anatomy to visualize . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In effect , this appears to be what Nolan and Tucker are proposing in the quotation given on page 231 , and in : |
| 18 | That must be what Jemima is , a British bi-coloured short hair , must n't she ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They must be what Robert Boyle later called ‘ secondary ’ qualities . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | One issue will be what interest is to be payable on the retention monies . |
| 23 | The latter may be what Robertson ( 1984 ) calls northern marram grass dune pasture . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I could be what number it is . |
| 26 | But there also appears to be what Phillipson , drawing on Cicourel , would call ‘ basic interpretative rules ’ ( Phillipson 1972 : 148 ) , which the police employ when making practical decisions of this sort : the reasonableness of the offender 's excuse ( Ericson 1982 : 147 ) , and whether or not offenders display deference ( Black 1970 : 1101 ; Dix and Layzell 1983 : 73 ; Sykes and Clark 1975 ) . |
| 27 | One of these effects can be what Britton ( 1981 ) refers to as the phenomenon of re-enactment as an unwitting professional response to the dynamics of a child 's situation , the difficulty that exists for professionals not to re-enact — and thereby aggravate — what the child already experiences , and the ease with which they may collude with his sense of hopelessness and negative feelings . |
| 28 | That seems to be what Opposition parties want . |
| 29 | There is simply no comparison with the terrorist Communist Party of Peru , the Sendero Luminoso , although that seems to be what Evans-Pritchard is hinting at . |
| 30 | That seems , anyway , to be what Tolkien came to think . |