Example sentences of "what it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sir Keith Joseph echoed the view of his predecessors and successors when he declared in 1984 , " History , properly taught , justifies its place in the curriculum by what it does to prepare all pupils for the responsibilities of citizenship . " |
2 | ‘ Lee and Ian have shown they have what it takes to earn first-year professional terms and I 'm delighted they 've agreed to join us . |
3 | I 'll give you a fair fight if that 's what it takes to cool that hot head of yours . ’ |
4 | I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot … |
5 | And although this particular episode in the end solved no major scientific problem , it serves a crucial role in bringing to light the many aspects of what science is all about and what it means to do good science . |
6 | Oh I was in repudiation of my contract well I du n no what what it means to repude some things , you know I jumped to get a dictionary and found out , but I really do n't know what my contract was because I do n't think we ever had any . |
7 | But this silliness does not derive from what I claimed about what it means to have successful thoughts : it derives from our habit of regarding individual thoughts as if they were like sentences . |