Example sentences of "know what [pron] be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't wish to know what it is to be mortal , thanks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I know what it is to be alone , to fear death , I know and she is unaware that I know , and yet I have to go to her , I have to leave the safety of my room . |
| 4 | Today we know what it is to be ‘ professionalized ’ , experts at our job . |
| 5 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 6 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 7 | As someone who came from a happy , steady home , she might be able to offer help in some small way to some of these disadvantaged youngsters , a few of whom hardly know what it is to be loved at all . |
| 8 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 9 | I know what it is to be cursed with that temper . ’ |
| 10 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |
| 11 | Knowing what it was to be in a universe . |
| 12 | Brought up in Vienna when anti-semitism was rife , Peter Hugh Granby ( Peter Hugo Guensburger ) knew what it was to be self-reliant : |