Example sentences of "what [art] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Paulistas are to Brazil what the Milanese are to Italy : they are the businessmen , the ones with the energy and the drive and , as a consequence , they are disliked by the rest of the Brazilians . |
| 2 | to let me work this out what the distance was as time went on . |
| 3 | Or is part of it missing so that you trust what you know but wonder what the rest is like ? |
| 4 | As those were the best lines , you can imagine what the rest were like . |
| 5 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 6 | Depends what the story 's about |
| 7 | I mean I , I tend to think it 's a , it 's a play that 's got some very very funny bits in it , I do n't want to give away what the story 's about , but whilst there 's been the frivolity on the slopes , the whole thing starts to take on a , a , I tell you what it was , I remember reading an article by Dr Ruth , who said that good skiers are good in bed because the image of , of the skier is very potent , you know , and very strong . |
| 8 | Devismes 's letter of 22 June 1800 ( see above and n.20 ) included the sentence : ‘ He is [ to the Opéra ] what the heart is at the centre of the human body ’ This might be seen as hyperbole , taken in isolation , but it is wholly supported by a remarkable testimony written by the composer Jean-François Le Sueur ( 1760-1837 ) . |
| 9 | And that 's what the heart is like in heart failure . |
| 10 | ‘ We know what the rules are at present but the bureaucrats in Brussels could easily shift the goalposts . |
| 11 | And what the rules are to using them . |
| 12 | It is not clear at present exactly what the rules are in such cases , nor whether the choices of readings are as clear-cut as they at first seem . |
| 13 | Yeah , you could say what it looked like and what was happening and then say , Well I 'm not quite sure what the convention is for writing them |
| 14 | We have I have got I we have produced for you today , some detailed plans showing you what the capacities are of the routes , what the present flows are and what the effects of the new settlement will be upon those capacities . |
| 15 | Alright , I do n't recommend doing diagrams cos you spend five , five ten minutes drawing the diagram and explaining you know , what the curves are on it , erm , so you do n't really need to draw , draw diagrams in these short answer questions . |
| 16 | You know what the outlook is for unemployed teachers at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | Could you comment briefly on Addison Wesley and the pattern of the , the major programmes in that business and er , what the outlook is for the current year . |
| 18 | This is not what the revolution was for . |
| 19 | and that 's what the brain 's like , you 've got to try and hold on |
| 20 | As I see it , these three attitudes are not different theories about what the brain is like , but three different views about the best way to study it . |
| 21 | Firstly they need to decide what the video is to be about , who is to take the roles of sound recordist , camera , interviewee , etc. , and how they are going to tackle their project . |
| 22 | Many people think it is hard to assess whether a building is worth preserving and ask what the criteria are for trying to save it . |
| 23 | But the identification of the criteria poses no lesser problems than the identification of what the criteria are for . |
| 24 | And it did n't matter what the music was like , it was just like a real person singing about how they feel . ’ |
| 25 | It 's really a question of finding out where the material is coming from and knowing what the conditions are like there . |
| 26 | It 's really a question of knowing where the raw materials are coming from , where the product comes from and what the conditions are like there , but , of course it 's all very well saying it 's a question of what but er how many people involved are going to know that ? |
| 27 | If it is in very bad condition but you really ca n't afford to buy new carpet then see what the floor is like underneath . |
| 28 | That 's well over three thousand miles and God knows what the roads are like south of Valparaíso , if there are any . |
| 29 | And if somehow or other the , the , the whole of that er , erm , number nine , including the can be deferred , and I believe it should be , then that is what I would wish to happen , I would wish Mr to continue to have the freedom to see what the options are for this county council . |
| 30 | Well I think we will be er in a sense looking erm you know at the options that are available and all the options that are available after two thousand six , er we have n't looked at those in gr in any great detail , what the options were at that time . |