Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] it is [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 2 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 3 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 4 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 5 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 6 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 7 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
| 8 | And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green . |
| 9 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
| 10 | Not more of the same — a narrowing down of what it is to be British , and a belief that to promote good race relations you have to keep black people out . |
| 11 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The most striking feature of pupil descriptions of what it is to be a good teacher is the great emphasis placed on interpersonal respect . |
| 19 | False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | In the twilight groves and dusty caves there is no sign of what it is to be alive : nothing of love , valour or artistry . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But this is artificially to restrict the sense of what it is to be a rational institution . |
| 25 | Until you have known it you will have no conception of what it is to be truly lonely . |
| 26 | It is right that water should be improved locally on the basis of what it is to be used for … |
| 27 | Each TEI base tagset determines the basic structure of all the documents with which it is to be used . |
| 28 | Care also needs to be exercised when choosing a particular case management approach , to examine the existing service context into which it is to be placed since this can have a major influence on the success of the service . |
| 29 | If the bank mortgage form does not set out the precise amount of the home loan and the terms under which it is to be repaid , then it is important to ensure that the client receives a letter from the bank manager spelling out in precise terms the nature of the loan , the interest rate applicable to it and the regularity of the instalment payments . |
| 30 | They are concerned with reductionism , and with what it is to be a ‘ self ’ . |