Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 2 | Response : I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 3 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
| 5 | Erm we which is actually putting forward a budget which is responding to what the Policy Committee asks us to do . |
| 6 | The first of these reports was given on July 2 by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , who was heard in what the Independent of the following day described as an atmosphere of " chilly disdain " . |
| 7 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 8 | Erm now to give you and there would be other details by the way er other er information concerning that assignment like how many cards we 're printing like what the target is . |
| 9 | They were deluged with what the French call le corbeau , poison-pen letters accusing neighbours , business competitors and colleagues of everything from listening to the BBC to being an active resistant ( of whom there were , in fact , very few indeed until the eve of the Liberation ) . |
| 10 | It is based on what the speaker wants to announce as his/her starting point and what s/he goes on to say about it . |
| 11 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 12 | We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think . |
| 13 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 14 | He was deposed by what the Western Church regards as the 8th Ecumenical Council . |