Example sentences of "be [verb] what [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Uncle Albert says we 're to note what the light beams do , and see if anything changes as we accelerate . |
| 2 | Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills . |
| 3 | An important role will be deciding what a fair rate of return for the academics should be in any given project . |
| 4 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 5 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
| 6 | I know without being told what a difficult language it is to pronounce with English oral equipment , but they also beat their brows in anguish wailing , ‘ Oh , the mutations . ’ |
| 7 | The computer is then trained to become an expert in medical diagnosis in exactly the same way as a medical student : by being presented with lots of case histories , and being told what the correct diagnosis is . |
| 8 | They were saying what a stupid series it was , how ridiculous the character was , and it would n't get beyond the first episode . |
| 9 | As the language system is the focus of our study here , we start with the idea of the linguistic variable ( for example the vowel /a/ in such items as cat , bad , have ) , and our first task is to discover what the possible variants of a variable may be : subsequently , the quantitative distribution of linguistic variants may be demonstrated by reference to the familiar speaker-variables of social dialectology , such as age and sex of speaker . |
| 10 | Or your last option is to do what the good folk at the training agency have done , which is they claim that the today marker is not erm , sturdy enough , so they superglue the er , the two markers together , to make it thicker . |
| 11 | That is to do what the Royal Family has always done supremely well , to meet foreign dignitaries as Britain 's ambassadors . |
| 12 | Now to me , and John Prescott 's not even in our union , shame , that man should be is doing what every other G M B member of Parliament should be doing . |
| 13 | Who is to determine what the poor in the Third World really do need ? |
| 14 | Government concern is to develop what the Foreign Office called a mechanism to turn people round more quickly and prevent them from arriving at a destination where they were unwanted . |
| 15 | The object sought to be achieved in construing any commercial contract is to ascertain what the mutual intentions of the parties were as to the legal obligations each assumed by the contractual words in which they chose to express them ( Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 1030 ) . |
| 16 | Alternatively they may say : ‘ We think the best way to do it is to follow what the local authority have said you are to do ’ . ’ |
| 17 | Once it has been established what the relevant scope of the employer 's business is , the next question is whether the restriction does no more than protect any existing customer connection . |
| 18 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 19 | Stepney in the late 18th century was becoming what the Northern Heights — Highgate and Hampstead — became later , namely , an early form of London suburbia . |
| 20 | The problem for British producers seeking to emulate Korda 's achievement was to define what an international British film might be . |
| 21 | Er , oh in the example that I gave , yes , because it was totalling what the grand total . |
| 22 | Inchbad had moved across to sit beside her and had taken her hand between his finger and thumb and was exclaiming what a pretty little thing she was and it the shame of the world that her brother had had to ride of land leave her all alone . |
| 23 | I remember when he was asked what the principal crop of Thailand was and he answered transistor radios . |
| 24 | In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales . |
| 25 | In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales . |
| 26 | The idea was to show what a tough life the Royals have . |