Example sentences of "what it be [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does not , however , retract his proposal that the precepts of the imagist manifesto are still the best rules of thumb for ‘ the neophyte ’ , the beginner in his ‘ prentice-work ; and for what it is worth my own experience in the workshop certainly bears that out . |
| 2 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |
| 3 | Now tell me what it is about your eidetic ability that is causing you so much distress . ’ |
| 4 | They try to empty what it is in their stomach and it |
| 5 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 6 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 7 | For what it 's worth my own advice would be that we I erm as you remember , increased the rental for the er coffee rooms from four thousand pounds when I er took over the post of chief executive and er to seven thousand five hundred in July eighty nine and we 've increased that yearly to a sum of twenty one thousand one hundred and fifty pounds per annum er from the first of August nineteen ninety one . |
| 8 | It slipped smoothly through the blackness , a faint throbbing heartbeat announcing its coming to a couple of village dogs , who strained in vain to make out what it was with their inadequate monochrome vision . |
| 9 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |