Example sentences of "[verb] what [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one encounters what is known as the closure problem , a consequence of the non-linearity of the equation . |
| 2 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 3 | You have to want to know what is happening to the people . ’ |
| 4 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 5 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 6 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 7 | ‘ I have my duties , ’ replied Dr Neil , assuming a pompous voice , ‘ and one of them is to know what is happening in the world . |
| 8 | And this depends on our having very powerful and general rules in our minds for relating what is said to the broader context . |
| 9 | Therefore , on payment out , the court must direct what is to happen to the accrued interest . |
| 10 | say what 's happening on the twenty third of January |
| 11 | ‘ I say what 's happening with the Bloods and the Crips is the same thing that 's happening with the protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland , which is the same thing that 's happening in South Africa where different tribes fight each other . |
| 12 | The introduction of inflationary expectations into the Phillips relationship created what is known as the expectations-augmented Phillips curve and this plays an important role in the monetarist approach to inflation . |
| 13 | According to Lorraine Thorne of the Environmental Investigation Agency : " We just do n't know what 's happening to the marine ecosystem of the Antarctic . |
| 14 | John , we do n't know what 's happening at the moment , he 's , we 're not , we 're not at all sure . |
| 15 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 16 | Absolutely gutted I ca n't believe such a lenient sentence has been given.I do n't know what 's going through the judge 's mind . |
| 17 | During this time the patient will report on what has occurred since the last meeting and we will discuss what is to happen during the current visit . |
| 18 | I think it is because he accepts what is said at the third stage , the eleven and twelve-year-olds , as giving the truth of the matter . |
| 19 | It articulates what is revealed by the sixth sense . |
| 20 | Anselm appears to argue that merely understanding what is meant by the word God makes it clear that God exists . |
| 21 | Labour Members should consider what is said in the parents charter about inspection of schools in Wales . |
| 22 | The purchaser should also consider what is to happen to the business after the earn out period as it will be extremely difficult to motivate the vendor if he is still a key employee . |
| 23 | separate legal rules applying differently to different types of credit transaction should be replaced by a single set of rules covering equally all forms of ‘ security interest ’ ( how lenders try to secure what is owed to them , for example , by a right to repossess what is bought with the borrowed money ) . |
| 24 | The first task in attempting to enumerate the extent and nature of informal care is to define what is meant by the term ‘ carer ’ . |
| 25 | The big building forming what is known as the brake shop ( No. 37 ) was originally the principal section of the original works . |
| 26 | In any field of employment a successful application depends to some degree on the applicant 's being seen to say and do what is expected during the selection process , and to this extent conventional selection methods can always be faulted for the way they may presume that words uttered on a form or in an interview are reliable indicators of future performance . |
| 27 | A collapsing housing market could bring what is left of the economy crashing down . |
| 28 | The Damascene geographer al-Umari confirms what is implied by the tomb : that Delhi , for all its bazaars and shrines and fine architecture , was above all a barracks : ‘ The army [ of Delhi ] consists of 900,000 horsemen . |
| 29 | Surely it can not be long before the Football League discovers what is festering in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League sewer . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) An observation question asks pupils to describe something without relating it to their knowledge of the situation , e.g. " Describe what is happening in the picture ? " |