Example sentences of "[prep] who [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When adolescence hits us , feelings about ourselves are at their most intense , bound up so much with identity , a sense of who we are and who we might be . |
| 2 | ‘ My greatest hope is that we shall gain a deeper knowledge of who we are and how we are related to the Universe , and that this knowledge will further the evolutionary progression of our collective consciousness . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We want to make sure that UK handling agents , Scottish hotels and in particular coach operators are aware of who we are and what we have to offer their clients . ’ |
| 4 | Elaine , a 16-year-old girl who has spent most of her life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro , in Brazil , puts it better : ‘ I dream of a better world , a world where children and adults are no longer abandoned , tortured and murdered because of who we are or what we do … |
| 5 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 6 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 7 | Huntley , a burly 51-yearold , has created a constant reminder of who they are and what they want in the form of glossy profiles , complete with pictures , inserted beneath a glass plate on the leather topped table in his office . |
| 8 | Says Jim Cummins : ‘ Kids who are proud of who they are and who have no ambivalence about that have no problems in school ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 10 | Blindness can strike anyone at any time , regardless of who they are or where they live . |
| 11 | All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going . |
| 12 | Tomorrow , she assured herself , as she brushed her teeth , she would wake up with total recall of who she was and where she came from . |
| 13 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 14 | Then suddenly , while aware she had told him that she did not love Travis , she realised that here was her chance of clouding the issue of who it was that she did love . |
| 15 | But that single question , reminding them of who he was and what he represented , chilled the room and changed their mood from fascinated and horrified interest to a slightly embarrassed unease . |
| 16 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 17 | He suffered opposition , rejection , hatred and death because of who he was and what he had come to do . |
| 18 | Coupled with these practices are plea-bargaining ( negotiating a guilty plea in return for being charged with a less serious offence ) and ‘ judicious ’ judicial decisions ( which take as much notice of who you are as they do of what you have apparently done ) . |
| 19 | In addition to clothes , hair styles are an important indicator of who you are and the cult to which you belong . |
| 20 | As one peasant from a resettled community said , ‘ it makes you proud of who you are and keeps you changing ’ . |
| 21 | It is important that we help each other tell the truth about who we are and what we 've done . |
| 22 | The beliefs and ideas that organisations hold about who they are and what they are trying to do and what their environment is like have a much greater tendency to realise themselves than is usually believed . |
| 23 | ‘ They have a basic need to know that someone loves them , but some of these children are not secure about who they are and who loves them . |
| 24 | About who they are or why they are doing it or what they want . |
| 25 | Whether these were John 's family or whether there was another brother or sister I do not know , but I have never been able to find out anything about who they were or where they went to . |
| 26 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
| 27 | It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two . |
| 28 | I lied to you about who I was because — ’ |
| 29 | You have to be really clear-cut about who you are and what you 're trying to achieve . |
| 30 | It was a crash course in survival , and in learning how to get on with people ; but when he made friends there , he knew , probably for the first time in his life , that he was liked for who he was and not what he was . |