Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [be] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'm against is the inference that we do n't put any other matters erm that comes up on the subject if it arose prior to the to June . |
| 2 | You should know weeks ahead just what you are to be studying and at what time . |
| 3 | ‘ What we are after is consistency , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I 've got it here in , in , in black and white , Mao said what we are after is the abolition of feudal ties , to get rid of feudalism . |
| 5 | Once we have this model , we will not worry too much whether what we 're into is presence , power , proclamation or whatever kind of evangelism . |
| 6 | Erm I think that that in the same way as if we went down too low , could be considered to be er a change of strategy and I think what we 're about is to try and reflect the currently er approved structure plan strategy . |
| 7 | Some of the costs are met by head office — it gets all of the revenue because we sell in this country — but in the case of France where we have a separate legal entity , what we 're after is contribution statements by unit of accommodation for the UK revenues , and one or two other costs with those French locally incurred expenses . |
| 8 | right , okay , we 've had the discussion come the debate , I said the er the use of Norfolk who they knew what we were about were only |
| 9 | Our conclusions for what they are worth are set out and we come to a figure of about forty five thousand . |
| 10 | Nobody was quite sure what that really meant but if it were to mean that audiences were now ready for films which dealt sensationally with sex , crime , and shady city affairs then that was what they were to be given . |
| 11 | Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside . |
| 12 | What he was after was not bank funding but advice on European Community finance that might be available . |
| 13 | What it is about is using our members ' money to benefit the people who represent them by moving the responsibility of training from national to regional level . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Get in touch with the true essence of England , what it is to be English . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And I 've forgotten what it is to be impulsive . |
| 25 | A mariachi band approaches and launches into a lively lament on what it is to be alone and without love . |
| 26 | Today we know what it is to be ‘ professionalized ’ , experts at our job . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They are concerned with reductionism , and with what it is to be a ‘ self ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |