Example sentences of "be what [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or perhaps that 's what does alarm you . ’ |
| 2 | In any case , if one insists on talking about knowledge , the question that will have to be answered sooner or later is what does constitute genuine knowledge , and if it should turn out , as it well might , that in defining the conditions of knowledge one has to make use of existential propositions of one sort or another , then the suggested reductivist paraphrase will not have achieved its purpose . |
| 3 | Erm the only thing is what does happen occasionally is somebody comes from the D S S offices and they 've been told , I need a B one . |
| 4 | It is what helps keep them sane , chained to a wall not knowing if they are going to live or die . |
| 5 | Hare wondered whether geographers could get away with posing as being simultaneously earth scientists and social scientists and this is what did happen in the ensuing decade . |