Example sentences of "what [pers pn] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , are we sticking with the allocation that we had in the past , peoples responsibility , or when we change them in this sort of way are we mucking them about ? 'Cos I like to know what I am responsible for and what I 'm not . |
| 2 | These were not what she was hungry for , but they were English , and narrative . |
| 3 | It will tell you what you 're what you 're responsible for . |
| 4 | We 've now put in place a performance measurement system that sets out what the job is that people are there to do , what they 're accountable for , what we expect them to achieve and what they are measured on . |
| 5 | THIEVES who targeted two domestic garages in Mynydd Isa on the same night must have known exactly what they were after for in both cases they stole Kawasaki Jet skis worth of £2,000 each . |
| 6 | No I know but he , that 's what he 's famous for is n't it ? |
| 7 | We all knew that Steven was regarded as an eligible bachelor , but we did n't think that marriage was what he was eligible for . |
| 8 | That 's what he was grey for . |
| 9 | But if our picture of God is wrong , then our whole presupposition of what it is possible for God to be or do is correspondingly altered . |
| 10 | What emerges from this example is that there can be situations of moral dilemma which impose limits on what it is possible for someone to do . |
| 11 | starting from statements about what it is important for children to know about language : e.g. its uses in literature , language variation , bilingualism , language change , ambiguities and problems in communication , the writing system , etc. ; |
| 12 | We do it when we decide what it is acceptable for people to be able or unable to do . |
| 13 | The question of what it is desirable for Japan to be and do deeply divides the Japanese , but few fail to acknowledge that being Japanese sets them apart . |
| 14 | What it is difficult for those from the West fully to grasp , is just how surreal life under state socialism has been , especially in the early fifties when the system reached a kind of apogee of dementia . |
| 15 | What , what it 's frustrating for a slow bowler is that if the batsman put his left pad down the wicket and held his bat up in the air , clearly not playing his shot for all to see , then I 'm sure that we , you know , it , the batsman be given out L B W quite frequently , but because the bat is hovering just behind that left pad erm , he 's never given out . |
| 16 | The ideology of what it was proper for women to do remained largely untouched . |