Example sentences of "that [pron] be what " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made me realize that things need n't be , that nothing is what it seems in life , that there are no rules . ’ |
| 2 | That I am what I am . |
| 3 | But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In the course of this process we have talked to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , who told us that she was the life tenant of a substantial estate , and that you are what they call the remainder-man . ’ |
| 5 | If you stop trying to become whatever it is you are trying to become and instead have the feeling that you are what you are , and this is the moment — your struggle stops . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , I think that you are what 's called a borderline personality , with pronounced schizoid tendencies . |
| 7 | This , I felt , shrinking with embarrassment , was taking the idea that you are what you eat a sight too literally , and ever since I have distanced myself slightly from that early guide to greens . |
| 8 | ‘ Everyone who believes that we are what we eat will be able to get to the root of what that really means , ’ declares Francesca . |
| 9 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 10 | At a level above that there is what is called machine code : one whose lines are normally instructions to add or subtract or shift the contents of whole registers ( themselves strings of binary numbers ) . |
| 11 | The appropriateness of that kind of question for understanding the nature of science in a fundamental way is brought into question when it is pointed out that there is what would seem to be a fairly straightforward distinction between some state of affairs and judgements about that state of affairs made by individuals or groups . |
| 12 | Both conservative Christians and , more surprisingly , Christian feminists suggest that there are what might be called counterbalances to Christology in the form of female figures or feminine motifs present in Christian theology . |
| 13 | That they 're what this is all about . ’ |
| 14 | When these feelings are internalized , ageing people too readily believe that they are what they are , and they are likely to remain that way . |
| 15 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 16 | Roger White , senior tax partner at KPMG , says that it 's what he would do if he were Chancellor . |
| 17 | So how do you try a new song to make sure that it blends that it 's what you want to do that it 's different how do what where do you try if you do n't try on stage ? |
| 18 | Does that mean that you 've got it and that it 's what you wanted . |
| 19 | Assuming that it is what it should be , it does no more than incorporate into law a moral right existing independently of the law . |
| 20 | It is not an easy ride , by any means , and you must be sure that it is what you really want to do . |
| 21 | So that it is what you have to do . |
| 22 | They can do whatever they like provided that it is what the Treasury has already agreed . |
| 23 | If we examine the theory of the origins of human society and personality put forward by Freud in Totem and Taboo we find that it is what might be termed a monotraumatic theory . |
| 24 | I have far fewer friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 25 | I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 26 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 27 | To that she would reply simply that it was what ‘ I ought to do . ’ |
| 28 | He was afraid — and I think now he was right to be — that it was what they were really after . ’ |
| 29 | He said that it did not matter how the £3. 1 million was acquired and that it was what the company did with the money that mattered . |
| 30 | Helpless in the grip of emotions that refused to be denied , she finally admitted to herself that it was what she wanted ; what she had wanted since he had kissed her , oh , so gently , in the kitchen . |