Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If duties are what you must or should do , wishes are what you want to do . |
| 2 | A good reader is one who reads critically , with understanding : ‘ The interweaving of the reader 's meanings and the author 's meanings are what we call understanding ’ ( Meek , 1982 , p.22 ) — and with enjoyment . |
| 3 | If opinions are what you seek , you are probably better looking a source written at the time of the issue you have chosen by a person of sound mind . |
| 4 | Amongst these characteristics are what I called ‘ morality ’ and ‘ mystery ’ which contain , I think , the charismatic elements to which Kosa drew our attention . |
| 5 | Er and in theory terms , primary reinforcers are something which meets biological needs , like food is a primary reinforcer , okay ? |
| 6 | It is as if political goals are what she decides and the role of ministers , civil servants , and advisers is to help implement them . |
| 7 | Not round Havers , wh they park where those , those sort of shops are they they park all around the corners so that you have to go out round them . |
| 8 | The last two subjects are what they call core subjects which you have to take . |
| 9 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 10 | The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life . |
| 11 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 12 | Baths were something which caused continual problems . |
| 13 | Books were what he bought most assiduously . |
| 14 | Probably their teachers will speak to them in this style , though what the learners are likely to encounter when they join in conversations with native speakers is what we have referred to previously as a ‘ rapid , casual ’ style . |
| 15 | It 's a different matter , though , when one of the protagonists is somebody we 've very much heard of and would n't mind sitting next to at dinner : a secretary of state , for example , or a dishy actor . |
| 16 | One of their guidelines was what they called the correspondence principle , the requirement that classical mechanics should be recoverable for large systems . |
| 17 | Experiences are what we deal in . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( The medical/technical descriptions are what I understood the doctors to say not text-book definitions ) . |
| 20 | Many of the singers were what we call verpflichtet : they were contracted to do so many performances and they simply turned up and did them . |
| 21 | That she has a personal panel of instructors is something which has allowed her to escape with fewer hours on the practice ground than most . |
| 22 | The typing and glossing of texts is something which does not have to be done in the village . |
| 23 | So the evidence of our senses is what we start from when we need to construct a justification for our beliefs , on this approach . |
| 24 | Expectations are what we consider to be reasonable behaviour , performance or decisions under a given set of circumstances . |
| 25 | This is extremely time consuming and it is not always easy to tell whether the grains are what you think if they are not well-preserved . |
| 26 | Casual workers are what they use , and the short duration of each " event " is an important explanation of the overlap between part-time and casual working . |
| 27 | ‘ Textiles are what we have always done in Biella . |
| 28 | Our few years are everything we have in all eternity . |
| 29 | I quote from this report on secondary education because I find the debate about whether or not to withdraw pupils with special needs is one which occupies the minds of primary teachers as well . |
| 30 | Enraged that he should take it on himself to tell her the state of her own business , and bristling at the manner in which he spoke of her precious son , Esther said sharply , ‘ Whatever is or is not in the coffers is nothing whatsoever to do with you ! |