Example sentences of "what [be] [vb pp] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Rosen understands that rhythm makes language memorable for children , and what 's remembered can be possessed and loved . |
| 2 | Much of what is said would be true also ( in a modified form ) for small-number natural oligopolies , but I shall not examine such questions here . |
| 3 | With writing , at least , they believe , what is said can be taken to be what is meant . |
| 4 | However , there is no general requirement to disclose information about a property , it only states what is said must be true . |
| 5 | The jobs noticeboard is the first of what is hoped will be many scattered around villages in England 's heartland . |
| 6 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 7 | For what is displayed can be checked by others , and , if possible , reproduced by them . |
| 8 | What is observed will be related to wider regional and national trends in urban America at a more general level , and to the process of economics , social and political change within the specific cities under investigation . |
| 9 | In an economic system coordinated solely by markets there is no guarantee that what is produced can be sold . |
| 10 | In strategic terms the England manager , who does not have a Gerson or Pele to bail his team out of the trouble caused by such indiscretions , was right , but if you drive the idiosyncrasies out of football altogether what is left can be grey indeed , which is what one finds a little disconcerting about the present Brazilian side . |
| 11 | The law therefore does not confer an explicit right of protest but it circumscribes our freedom to do so , and what is left can be enjoyed . |
| 12 | The protection of what is left must be regarded as a priority . |
| 13 | Now plans have emerged for what is thought could be the first British private medical village . |
| 14 | Exactly what is shown can be any of the last time and date the file was saved , the summary information , the file statistics , or the contents . |
| 15 | If we do not know about something or do not realise what is addressed can be understood in another manner or seen through another lens , it skews our viewpoint ; it limits our options ; it clouds our perspective . |
| 16 | Idealisation of past relationships may reflect unsatisfied longings ; what is reported may be how old people would like it to have been . |
| 17 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |
| 18 | No radical reform was undertaken of what should be taught , or how what was taught should be valued . |
| 19 | ‘ Personal politics ’ was the buzzword : the acknowledgement of the ‘ dark side ’ was always grounded in progressive humanism , the belief that what was twisted could be straightened out , that the shadows could be banished by the spotlight of analysis . |
| 20 | It is interesting to note that legislation was required , because , as said above , mid-nineteenth-century reformers thought that most of what was needed could be achieved by formalising the relationship by means of a lease . |