Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " 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 | So what you 're what you can be sure of getting from us is absolutely on line and of course you 're getting a service . |
| 3 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 4 | There used to be some nice serials for They used to be thrilling you know , er I can remember I wish they 'd show them now They used to be what we used to call , The voice on the wire and then there was another serial called , Peggo the Ring . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | Oh yes there used to be what they used to called er we used to call Ticky . |
| 7 | That may be what he 'd like to say , but the single preferential vote makes it impossible . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 10 | That 's a stro that would be what you would call a stroke saver . |
| 11 | ‘ Only it might not quite be what you 'd think acceptable . ’ |
| 12 | Only about a third of them has to be what you 'd really call meat , and quite a lot of them had an enormous amount of fat in them . |
| 13 | Oh we used to er there used to be er er two rooms downstairs and then there used to be what you used to call er the attic they used to call them in them days . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ First , I thought French was a chic language , ’ he explained , ‘ and then you know , I saw all those photos of Germany before the war and I thought life would never be what it used to be . |
| 16 | But even though nostalgia may not be what it used to be , even for these people there are good reasons for staying in touch . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That would be what she would want from life ; she would want no more than that . |
| 19 | She knew that that would be what she would feel if the roles were reversed . |
| 20 | ‘ Yeah — Mum , I told you , did n't I — ’ Cal suddenly got excited — ‘ it 's because Bina 's not allowing herself to be what she ought to be ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And I 'm not a clever lass , I 'm what you would call a b … fool . ’ |
| 23 | No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be ; for all that , it felt like a step forward — and upward . |
| 24 | ‘ that the harm , or likelihood of harm , is attributable to — ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; … |
| 25 | A court can only make a care or supervision order if satisfied : ( a ) that the child concerned is suffering , or is likely to suffer significant harm ; and ( b ) that the harm , or likelihood of harm is attributable to : ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; or ( ii ) the child being beyond parental control ( s31 ) . |
| 26 | Er and they were what we would call medium to heavy type of er engineering . |
| 27 | erm Some were what we would call nowadays newsreels . |
| 28 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 29 | Certain aspects of word-meaning , however , are difficult to reconcile with this view : particularly awkward are what we shall term sense-spectra . |
| 30 | experiment are what we might think of as optional inferences . |