Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | worth twenty pounds a year or whatever it is worth |
| 2 | Many people find that they drop their meditation practice or whatever it is at precisely the time when they think they need it most — i.e. when they are feeling most stressed . |
| 3 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 4 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 5 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 6 | To speak of my way of being , or what it is like to be me , seems to be to speak of what distinguishes my conscious life from the conscious lives of others . |
| 7 | is what it is like or what it is like in words . |
| 8 | He knew as he could come to me er he used to bring me lock keys of all sorts and er he could get the castings or the patterns or what it is like that and he knows I could fashion them to fit the lock and all that sort of thin and we were very |
| 9 | Thus , it is clear that what we are in fact dealing with is an issue of political theory , the proper location of power and responsibility . |
| 10 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 11 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 12 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 13 | It surely seems worth investigating the possibility that whatever it is about power lines that flips a normal brain into depression may flip a depressed brain back to normality . |
| 14 | In fact I 'd say we 're worse off than what we was at the start of it . |
| 15 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 16 | you found at the Country Dancing , it was different people that was at the Country Dancing than what than what it was at the more at the the ordinary dances . |
| 17 | He 's more frightened of you than what you are of him , actually . |
| 18 | Yes erm you see we 're in a different , different situation than what you are at Salisbury Park . |
| 19 | The circumstances in which Anselm used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae in these nine letters from 1101 to 1106 show that he knew that this phrase embodied the papal policy with which Hugh of Lyons had probably made him familiar , and which he was in duty bound to carry out in the matter of homage and investiture . |
| 20 | CONFUSED shareholders have been seeking help on the complex question of Eurotunnel warrants and what they are worth . |
| 21 | Think about this guy , I might have stuff on him , about flats and what they are for . |
| 22 | Bet 's got to fill out who she 's talking to and what they are to her |
| 23 | It may be important to carry out a preliminary field research exercise to identify : who are the " relevant population " and what they are like in general terms ; what type of research method will prove most cost-effective ; what should be the structure and content of the questionnaire , and how researchers should use it ; how the information collected is to be collated and classified . |
| 24 | And what they 're like out of work you know ? |
| 25 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 26 | But in ( 76 ) with the predicate qualifier the lady and her red hair are intensionally separated ; therefore while it is still possible to use ( 76 ) to the same effect as ( 75 ) , with everything that is constructed with the verb covered by without solid evidence , this notion may also be taken as only related to one of the two extending elements ; that is , Oliver may reliably know her and what she is like — it is her image as red-haired that was constructed without solid evidence . |
| 27 | Now she was writing in her journal that she would tell Dr Neil who and what she was on the coming Saturday , after the bazaar was over . |
| 28 | I went on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
| 29 | and what he 's like in himself . |
| 30 | So how do you underline who and what you are without actually … underlining who you are ? |