Example sentences of "[prep] what it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 2 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 3 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 4 | ‘ In this constituency unemployment is 27 per cent below what it was in 1987 . |
| 5 | ‘ In this constituency unemployment is 27 per cent below what it was in 1987 . |
| 6 | The quality of our vision on a dark night must be far poorer than 5 per cent of what it is at midday . |
| 7 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 8 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
| 9 | Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view . |
| 10 | The concept of women 's standpoint also provides an interpretation of what it is for a theory to be comprehensive . |
| 11 | All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive . |
| 12 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 13 | Discussion of justification , of what it is for a belief to be justified , begins with this theory ; other theories will be described in terms of their relation to or divergence from this one . |
| 14 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
| 15 | In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means . |
| 16 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
| 30 | 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 . |