Example sentences of "what [pers pn] is to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |
| 2 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 3 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 4 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 5 | Get in touch with the true essence of England , what it is to be English . |
| 6 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 7 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 8 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 9 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
| 10 | I know what it is to be alone , to fear death , I know and she is unaware that I know , and yet I have to go to her , I have to leave the safety of my room . |
| 11 | And I 've forgotten what it is to be impulsive . |
| 12 | A mariachi band approaches and launches into a lively lament on what it is to be alone and without love . |
| 13 | Today we know what it is to be ‘ professionalized ’ , experts at our job . |
| 14 | And then the dark-greens are by no means united in forming a simple statement of what it is to be an out-and-out green . |
| 15 | Data proliferates in the NHS with more and more being collected , but without the same effort being put into asking why it is being collected and what it is to be used for . |
| 16 | They are concerned with reductionism , and with what it is to be a ‘ self ’ . |
| 17 | But because there is some uncertainty about what it is to be a professional librarian and how to respond professionally to many situations , there can be rather tao many difficult decisions to be made ; and the dilemma is not helped by the weakness of the profession , both inherent and externally perceived , on the issue of censorship . |
| 18 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
| 19 | Why are n't they closer to what it is to be an actor ? |
| 20 | Not more of the same — a narrowing down of what it is to be British , and a belief that to promote good race relations you have to keep black people out . |
| 21 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 22 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 23 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 24 | As someone who came from a happy , steady home , she might be able to offer help in some small way to some of these disadvantaged youngsters , a few of whom hardly know what it is to be loved at all . |
| 25 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
| 26 | My argument is that ideology is also a moral system , and that moral values must be directly related to ideas of human nature : what it is to be a person . |
| 27 | British realism is distinctive not in being realistic but in being exportable , embarrassment and all ; and it is hard to resist the conclusion that the world buys it , including the American and Soviet worlds , because it is curious about what it is to be British . |
| 28 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
| 29 | The question that McDowell is pointing to , however , is whether , in the analysis of human communication , Grice 's contribution concerns more what it is to be human than what it is to communicate . |
| 30 | What it is to be an individual subject fluctuates from ideology to ideology . |