Example sentences of "what they [verb] [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they did want was a spacious , easy-to-fly machine that was cheap to buy , long-lasting , simple to fix without the benefit of workshop facilities , and had a half-ton payload with superlative short-field performance . |
| 2 | What they did realise was that their grand design must afford an acceptable challenge for both the average player and the accomplished player . |
| 3 | The ‘ middle class ’ activists did not necessarily support all the actual policies of the national party , but what they did support was the form of policymaking , and the right of the leadership to make policy . |
| 4 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 5 | What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants . |
| 6 | But that 's just the point — it 's dismal and bleak and they 're frozen stiff , hoping to catch Ramirez in the stake- out and barely able to express anything , but what they do express is infinitely lugubrious and despondent . |
| 7 | A dispute over what they do mean is , in principle , like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute . |
| 8 | What they do say is that the close coupling and phasing between the coprocessor and main processor makes a dramatic difference to coprocessor intensive applications , such as CAD , and will make a substantial difference to other coprocessor applications . |
| 9 | Victor and his parents have precious little but what they do have is — us ! |
| 10 | What they do see is a high-energy electron ( positron ) that appears to come from the decay of a W - ( W - ) . |
| 11 | What they do maintain is that a vividly told story can make an important contribution to our knowledge of how and why strikes occur . |