Example sentences of "[be] what [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No no put them back in there darling , they 're what we got at the pictures |
| 2 | ‘ They 're what you get in the sky when the sun shines and it 's been raining … |
| 3 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 4 | Yes , that may be what you decide to actually do . |
| 5 | A popular shift for returning district nurses is the twilight shift — assisting patients into or out of bed — although this may not be what you want for the rest of your life . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , a lot of contemporary architects have been influenced by the Gropius school of thought which maintains that architects should allow a building to be what it wants to be , rather than imposing any character or theme upon it . |
| 7 | A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism . |
| 8 | That is , we may take the " message " of an utterance to be what it conveys about " the real world " . |
| 9 | Perhaps I could have tried harder to be what she wanted in a daughter-in-law . |
| 10 | It is said they were led along the secret paths by a traitor , these paths almost certainly being what we know as the Pilgrims , Way to Aylesford . |
| 11 | She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens . |
| 12 | Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream . |
| 13 | First , there were what I thought of as variations at the ‘ horizontal ’ level . |
| 14 | That were what she said to her that day and she says to you , if you carry on I 'm gon na have you put in that orphan 's home . |
| 15 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 16 | Base and precious metals ; enamels , plastics and wood ; threads and fabrics ; clays and plaster and any other materials used singly or in combination are the bases for experiment : character , judgement , experience and knowledge are what we bring to them . |
| 17 | These are what we took at the museum are n't they ? |
| 18 | He uses three premisses : that houses , mountains , and rivers , are what we perceive by sense ; that what we perceive by sense are ‘ our own ideas or sensations ’ ; and that ideas can not exist unperceived . |
| 19 | Expectations are what we consider to be reasonable behaviour , performance or decisions under a given set of circumstances . |
| 20 | But there are what they refer to as the ‘ problem families ’ . |
| 21 | A I would always plant a tank for Angels out with Amazon Swords as these are what they spawn on their wild state . |
| 22 | Pleasure was what Believers sought in their old god ; innocence and naturalness are what they buy in the new . |
| 23 | Written representations — which are what they sound like — are the usual route for the small developments usually proposed by house-owners . |
| 24 | Such an account has to be a purely naturalistic one ( *a ) ; it has to deny ( *c ) that these experiences are what they purport to be , namely , instances of human awareness ( *b ) of the supernatural . |
| 25 | ‘ These are what I saw at her studio . ’ |
| 26 | A law of American life says that the world is a market , and markets are what you cater to . |
| 27 | If you are what you claim to be , you 're nothing but a dusty relic from some medieval ghetto … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ These are what you came for , are n't they — your ledgers , a couple of files ? |
| 29 | Like Shaw 's Eliza in Pygmalion , you are what you decide to be , more or less ; and no people on earth , one may suspect , is so adept at jumping hierarchies by efficiently switching accent or style . |
| 30 | Three CSEs are what he took to his job at a glaziers . |