Example sentences of "what it [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not knowing what it meant to have a past , he did n't miss it . |
| 2 | This is typical of what it involves to speak a language fluently : you can do something consistently and in agreement with other speakers without being able to explain why . |
| 3 | Do you have what it takes to fly a bomber over dangerous enemy territory , the Grim Reaper waiting patiently with you all the way ? |
| 4 | They know what it takes to maintain a habit . |
| 5 | With 24 years experience behind us we know what it takes to make an event stand out . |
| 6 | Now we are going to take a look at what it takes to keep a body healthy , and in particular at your nutritional requirements . |
| 7 | People do n't realise what it means to own a monkey . |
| 8 | This expectation , from a rhetorical point of view , is pan of what it means to hold an attitude , because the attitude exists within the wider social context of explicit controversy . |
| 9 | One member commenting on the new profile Taylor can bring to the region says : ‘ He understands what it means to run a business and what it costs to run a business . |
| 10 | Before we even begin to consider how such questions could be productively posed , let alone answered , it is perhaps worth asking what it means to have a model of something at all . |
| 11 | Alan has little experience of family life and is inquisitive about what it means to have a mummy and daddy . |
| 12 | You know what it costs to join a health club these days ? |
| 13 | Because that 's what it costs to take a person on do the training me coming here er interviewing |
| 14 | You know what it costs to run , switch the lights on , you know what it costs to run a conveyor belt for goodness sake , and yet it , and if , if you , if you lose money on , on shifting one parcel , I know if you shift a hundred thousand you might make something , but the chances are high that you wo n't , and , and I mean there are people shifting more parcels than us , I know that , they ca n't make any money out of it . |
| 15 | One member commenting on the new profile Taylor can bring to the region says : ‘ He understands what it means to run a business and what it costs to run a business . |