Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're what you might call a very catholic collection : flagellation , paedophilia , coprophilia ( sorry , I forget you 're not an aficionado — the sexual dimension of shit — J. Joyce had leanings that way ) , along with the usual nuns-and-donkeys sort of stuff . |
| 2 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 3 | That may be what he 'd like to say , but the single preferential vote makes it impossible . |
| 4 | It would n't be what you might think of as being on metre , and so you really had to listen and be real careful , because John Lee was gon na play his stuff and you better fit into it because he was n't gon na fit in with you ! |
| 5 | That 's a stro that would be what you would call a stroke saver . |
| 6 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 7 | ‘ Only it might not quite be what you 'd think acceptable . ’ |
| 8 | We do n't ever REVIEW beta test software — there 's just too much that can change between us seeing early versions and the code being finalised , and that means that what you see reviewed might not be what you will buy . |
| 9 | It will not be perfect , it will not be what I should like , but it will be better than what is before us — better in terms of our particular problem — and I hope that it will deal entirely with the discrimination . |
| 10 | She knew that that would be what she would feel if the roles were reversed . |
| 11 | That would be what she would want from life ; she would want no more than that . |
| 12 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
| 13 | And I 'm not a clever lass , I 'm what you would call a b … fool . ’ |
| 14 | Er and they were what we would call medium to heavy type of er engineering . |
| 15 | erm Some were what we would call nowadays newsreels . |
| 16 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 17 | Certain aspects of word-meaning , however , are difficult to reconcile with this view : particularly awkward are what we shall term sense-spectra . |
| 18 | experiment are what we might think of as optional inferences . |
| 19 | Often they are what we would call eye-witness accounts . |
| 20 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 21 | Er I I think my honourable friend , if I followed him er is confusing two things , er because erm er what we , he was beginning by talking about er are what we will come to in the regulations er which is the right of citizens of other er member countries to vote in the country of which they 're not a citizen to vote . |
| 22 | Some , at least , of the graptolitic black shales are what we can recognize , with the hindsight of plate tectonic theory , as the deposits laid down of the edge of the continental shelf , in a truly oceanic environment . |
| 23 | They have to be concerned with inputs , because inputs are what they can control . |
| 24 | These are what I may term " the gentle rain from heaven " concept on the one hand , and " the moving finger writes " concept on the other . |
| 25 | This combination was so successful that one dealer exclaimed indignantly ‘ These prices are what I would charge myself . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The demands are what I would have expected , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said steadily . |
| 27 | Now I want to suggest that what makes the difference — what transmutes overload and pressure into full-blown stress — are what I shall call injunctions . |
| 28 | ‘ Diggers , , ploughers , male and female , they are what I must draw continually . |
| 29 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 30 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |