Example sentences of "be [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're what the rates get spent on , instead of education and drains . |
| 2 | Norman Jay is looking to discover ‘ the fine line between putting out records I like and hoping they 're what the public want . ’ |
| 3 | The purpose of a meeting can be whatever the project manager decides would be useful . |
| 4 | The Masculine Dilemma : Wanting to Be What the Other Is |
| 5 | The older man explains why : ‘ Take my word for it — homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is ’ ( p. 337 ) . |
| 6 | And when X says homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is , the other is now not the other ( opposite ) sex , but the same sex , and X , as avowed heterosexual , has described his desire to displace the male . |
| 7 | Last week 's ‘ new cruzados ’ , ravaged by inflation , are blocked and replaced by cruzeiros ( which happens to be what the currency was called up till 1986 ) . |
| 8 | The immediate effect should be a deep recession ; that must be what the government intended . |
| 9 | And thus the practical was gradually and increasingly held to be what the ‘ no-hopers ’ engaged in . |
| 10 | This must be what the inspector meant by ‘ something to hide ’ . |
| 11 | That used to be what the EC was dedicated to as well . |
| 12 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 13 | Once posited , to be what the colour-word is the name of , this ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ sensation ’ becomes an element , in our thought about these matters , of which it is almost impossible to rid ourselves . |
| 14 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |
| 15 | The meaning of a statement seems to be roughly what the speaker should have meant by it and this must in most cases be what the speaker does mean by it . |
| 16 | Almost , the setting , the milieu , here will be what the book is about . |
| 17 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 18 | ‘ Fit leadership , ’ he repeated as though the word ‘ fit ’ might not just be what the Medical Officer looked for . |
| 19 | That may be what the House will accept , but let the House be fully aware of the nature of the decision . |
| 20 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 21 | The true moral of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a moral of character and attitude not of precept ; and appropriately the Host responds by commenting on the Nun 's Priest as a character who has proved to be what the Monk has turned out not to be . |
| 22 | I think there , there was a genuine democratic element to this that , that it , i i i it was n't going to be forcible socialism , it was going to be socialism which would come naturally because that would be what the population wanted . |
| 23 | ‘ This must be what the Garden of Eden was like , ’ Juliet said in a hushed voice . |
| 24 | It might not be what the average first-time buyer had in mind , but the latest property to go in the window at Hobbs and Chambers estate agents is sure to catch the eye of passers-by . |
| 25 | On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh 's affairs — which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted — then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared . |
| 26 | So Bernard really needs to be what the company has in mind . |
| 27 | They do n't want to be what the presenters do n't want is somebody to be pressing the button , hopping from channel to channel . |
| 28 | What is certain is that the results of the Italian war of 1859 , though wildly popular in France , were far from being what the Emperor desired . |
| 29 | The regional nomarch , or prefect , tells each local office how much it ought to collect in the year ( the national total being what the government reckons the budget needs ) . |
| 30 | More often the mothers of these large families were being what the survey described as " good " or " bad " managers , trying to hold things together . |